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Saturday, Jul 31, 2010
Seigneur Gustafson LLP announces the addition of one new staff member.
In October 2009, Seigneur Gustafson hired Kate Brown, CPA
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Professionally Speaking
The experts at Seigneur Gustafson, LLP. hold key positions in a number of local and national professional organizations. They frequently lecture on valuation, litigation, and financial analysis issues to other valuation professionals, CPAs, judges, and attorneys. As recognized leaders and innovators, our experts often present at conferences, as well as serving as experienced educators for other professionals in their field.

Listed below are some of the recent and upcoming professional speaking engagements for the staff of Seigneur Gustafson, LLP.


Building and Retaining Value in Closely Held Businesses

This PowerPoint slide deck provides an overview of how closely held businesses can focus on risk management strategies to build and enhance enterprise value, using a conceptual framework outlined in the book, Strategic Value Benchmarking.   Given the troubled economy, we have been focusing more attention on working with closely held management and ownership to identify tactics and strategies to apply these principles in order to position businesses for future internal transfer or external sale.

 
Exit Planning and Valuation for M&A Engagements

This PowerPoint slide deck provides insights into the exit planning process and valuation concepts applicable to investment/synergistic value assignments.  Our firm has recently been involved in several engagements to assist owners of closely held businesses in professional practices in the positioning and transference of ownership and related wealth preservation strategies.

 
Reasonable Compensation and the Adjustment for Productivity

This is a recently published article by Ron Seigneur and Kevin Yeanoplos that focuses on techniques, resources and case law related to owner-employee compensation determinations, including detailed references to landmark case law related to compensation related decisions.

 
Business Valuation in Distressed Economy

This slide deck focuses on some of the unique issues and valuation characteristics that must be considered when valuing a closely held business in a turbulent economy, such as what is currently occurring in many sectors.   Some of the traditional approaches to value, including development of cost of capital, weighting of historical activity, and the use of guideline public company and transactional databases are examples of areas that require more attention and diligence in today’s troubled economy.

 
Show Me the Money - Defining Income in Marital Dissolutions

This article was produced for the ABA Family Law Advocate newsletter as part of a series of information related to family law matters.  It focuses on issues specific to defining comprehensive sources of income, including income from non traditional sources.

 
Understanding Financial Statements for Family Law Matters

This article provides a great overview of fundamental financial statement principles and how to read and interpret financial information.   It is directed at family law related applications, but provides a nice concise summary that can be useful in any situation where financial statement data is at issue. 

 


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