September 2007 Articles
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Your projections matter. Now.
Here’s a couple of valuation truisms every CFO should know. Valuations are often highly reliant on the forward-looking projections of the client, Valuation reports are undergoing scrutiny in the financial reporting realm as never before. The same will likely be said about the tax realm when the IRS finally takes...
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Extension of 409A Compliance: Why?
The IRS announced today that taxpayers will have until December 31, 2008, to comply with the 409A regulations, which were finalized in April of this year. The initial date of compliance was year-end 2007. The questions I have are these: Did the IRS cave to concerns from so many law...
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Extension of 409A Compliance: What's it mean?
The IRS announced today that taxpayers will have until December 31, 2008, to comply with the 409A regulations. The regs were finalized in April of this year, and had an initial compliance date of year-end 2007. So what does this mean for privately held companies -- our clients and would-be...
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Empirics and Analytics
Data, reason and logic: the lodestars of at least one Silicon Valley CEO. So it should be with a responsible valuation practitioner. I’ll stop and mention for the record that we at Arcstone have no illusions about our place in the world. Cypress Semiconductor builds things that do stuff, which...
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