by Eva Lang - Eva Lang, aka BV Girl, is a member of the AICPA Business Valuation Hall of Fame. Eva discusses hot topics, practice management concerns, and technology issues that affect business valuation and litigation support practices.
10/06/2009 - 06:01 - 169 reads
BusinessWeek has declared that the sacred texts of investing need to be rewritten. The so-called equity risk premium, the once-sacrosanct belief that stocks perform better than bonds over time, has been vastly overrated.
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09/25/2009 - 18:12 - 157 reads
$1 billion. Yep, that is the value placed on Twitter today by an investor group providing $100 million in financing. According to the Wall Street Journal this Twitter valuation is quite a lift from the company’s last round of investing earlier this year, in which investors valued the company at around $255 million.
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09/04/2009 - 12:41 - 864 reads
I would venture to say that FAS 157 has been the most controversial statement ever to come out of FASB. This fair value standard has been blamed for the current recession and there is increasing pressure on FASB to change it. So change is coming. The first change is the name – FAS 157 is now Topic 820.
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08/18/2009 - 15:24 - 313 reads
The Appraisal Foundation announced recently that the Appraisal Standards Board (ASB) adopted revisions for the 2010-2011 edition of the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP).
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06/19/2009 - 15:32 - 739 reads
As if the recession was not enough, now we have to worry about psychopaths in accounting firms?
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