CYBERSECURITY IN A CHANGING WORLD
The Wall Street Journal Pro Report of December 19, 2017 was devoted to the issue of Cybersecurity. The chilling reality is that national governments, state and local governments, businesses and…
Read more »SMALL BUSINESS AND GROWTH PLATEAUS
As a small business grows, some changes made necessary by growth are obvious while more subtle but, no less important ones often go unattended. Take for example the need for…
Read more »THE VALUE SURPRISE IN SELLING YOUR BUSINESS
In this post I describe a frequent problem our firm encounters with founder/owners looking to sell their business. Recently a client mentioned that she was thinking of selling her existing…
Read more »SUCCESSION PLANNING RETHOUGHT
Few issues trouble a business owner more than how they are going to exit a business at retirement, to start another business (if they are a serial entrepreneur), or to…
Read more »WHEN FAMILY WEALTH OUTGROWS THE FAMILY BUSINESS
Transitions in a family business are difficult. Deciding how and where to grow, changing roles and responsibilities and balancing emotions and egos are all transitions which are amplified in a…
Read more »THE 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO DO IF YOUR ARE A WHATSAPP EMPLOYEE
The recent acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook, at an astonishingly high valuation, brings to mind some thoughts about the challenges faced by those 53 WhatsApp employees who find themselves suddenly…
Read more »WILL YOU BE HIT WITH ADDITIONAL TAXES DUE TO THE ACA?
In 2013 much was made of the impact of new taxes, especially those affecting high income earners, flowing out of the Affordable Care Act to aid in funding insurance coverage…
Read more »THE G20 AND INTERNATIONAL TAX REFORM
Lawmakers seem to feel that by calling companies to testify publicly about their tax affairs they will suffer reputational damage that will cause them to change their behavior. Tim Cook,…
Read more »THE NEW “BUSINESS-ATTRACTIVE” UK
“Have you looked at the business-attractive UK?” If someone had said that to me 10 years ago I would probably have chuckled. Recently though I attended a webinar put on…
Read more »IRS TARGETING HURTS MORE THAN JUST CONSERVATIVES
Recent news headlines are filled with sensational revelations about alleged IRS targeting of certain conservatively oriented social welfare groups seeking tax exempt status (under IRC Section 501 (c) 4) for…
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