February 2016 Year-End Accounting and Financial Reporting Issues for Commercial Entities Closing Out 2015 and Preparing for 2016 Audit | Tax | Advisory | Risk | Performance Crowe Horwath LLP This publication discusses accounting and financial...
Steering Successful Growth: Steering growth: Value Capture in M&A Value creation and M&A Results of a 2015 Crowe Horwath LLP Survey Audit | Tax | Advisory | Risk | Performance Introduction Contents Introduction 3 Executive...
® The Global Corporate Advisor March 2016 The Corporate Finance newsletter of Crowe Horwath International Welcome to the March 2016 issue of Global Corporate Advisor. In this issue, from France we have an article on valuation methodologies used for goodwill impairment tests under IAS 36. The piece examines relevant concepts such as measuring recoverable amount and the various scenarios...
March 2016 Accounting for Income Taxes: A Year in Review By Wanda M. Denton, CPA, and Sheryl L. Vander Baan, CPA Audit | Tax | Advisory | Risk | Performance Crowe Horwath LLP The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has continued to...
March 2016 Preparing to Sell Your Dealership, Part 2 Keeping the Deal on Track By Richard H. Kotzen, CPA Audit | Tax | Advisory | Risk | Performance Crowe Horwath LLP Sales of auto dealerships continue to accelerate, with a growing number of...
uStrengthening Corporate Governance: Effective Mechanisms for Reporting, Investigating and Remediating Fraud There are numerous resources available that guide those charged with governance (referred to as audit committees) toward building programs to include anti-fraud controls and cultivation of anti-fraud environments.1 When put into place and followed, these programs go a long way in...
2015 BDO GLOBAL ENERGY MIDDLE MARKET MONITOR BURSTING THE BUBBLE: GLOBAL ENERGY SECTOR RISES AND FALLS ON MIDDLE MARKET COMPANIES CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 UNITED STATES LEADS IN PRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 REVENUES GROW IN TANDEM...
FALL 2015 www.bdo.com A SPECIAL REPORT FROM THE BDO TECHNOLOGY & LIFE SCIENCES PRACTICE SAAS SIMPLIFYING SAAS – AN ACCOUNTING PRIMER OVERVIEW The SaaS business model continues to gain broad acceptance. Existing companies that historically sold software products are increasingly rolling out SaaS offerings, and many new SaaS companies are emerging. There are now more...
Winter 2016 www.bdo.com PErspective in NATURAL RESOURCES A FEATURE EXAMINING THE ROLE OF PRIVATE EQUITY IN THE NATURAL RESOURCES SECTOR. Low oil prices continue to cause pain in the oilfield services sector. As the current supply glut leads big oil producers to slow production, services companies are left competing for a shrinking number of oil projects. Since 2015, oil producers have pulled...
WOMEN @ WORK See What’s New With the Women at BDO Consulting As we embark on a new year, BDO Consulting takes a look at our professionals’ recent accomplishments and highlights the ways in which we are giving back to the community. BDO KNOWS TECHNOLOGY: EXPANDING THE BREADTH, DEPTH, AND QUALITY OF OUR RESOURCES Achieving Excellence in Technology: Recent Awards...
FEBRUARY 2016 www.bdo.com AN ALERT FROM THE BDO TECHNOLOGY & LIFE SCIENCES PRACTICE LIFE SCIENCES CYBER ALERT: FDA ISSUES NEW CYBERSECURITY GUIDELINES FOR MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURERS Following a spate of major data breaches — resulting in over 112 million compromised health records in 2015 alone — healthcare is the latest industry to face heightened regulatory...
BDO COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS MARCH 2016 TAX ALERT 1 www.bdo.com SUBJECT CONTACT: IRS PROVIDES GUIDANCE TO INDIVIDUALS ON WHAT TO DO WITH FORMS 1095 For more information on the Affordable Care Act reporting requirements, please contact: SUMMARY JOAN VINES Senior Director, National Tax Compensation and Benefits (703) 770-4444 / jvines@bdo.com Most individuals are receiving for the first...
Spring 2016 www.bdo.com PErspective in RESTAURANTS A FEATURE EXAMINING THE ROLE OF PRIVATE EQUITY IN THE RESTAURANTS INDUSTRY. By Dana Zukofsky Private Equity Hungry for Deals in the Restaurant Sector Stay up-to-date on the latest trends Over the past year, private equity activity has heated up in the restaurant industry. Historically, investors wanted to see proof of concept in...
MARCH 2016 BDO INTERNATIONAL TAX ALERT UK/US Tax Desk 1 www.bdo.com SUBJECT THE UNITED KINGDOM GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED ITS 2016 BUDGET ON MARCH 16, 2016, IN WHICH IT CONFIRMED THAT THE UNITED KINGDOM WILL BE PASSING LEGISLATION TO IMPLEMENT THE AGREED UPON ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (“OECD”) RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ADDRESSING BOTH HYBRID MISMATCHES AND...
to Assess Organizational Risk Management Practices The entire senior management team should be able to identify your organization's top five risks and the strategies in place to address them. In today’s environment, an integrated risk management function is essential to an organization’s survival. But one size does not ï¬t all when it comes to risk management....