2019’s Notable Accounting Standard Impacts
New guidance from FASB continues to grow in complexity, and in 2019 that translated to noticeable bandwidth effects on financial reporting professionals.
Crystal Ball 2020: What’s in Store?
VRC talks trends and what we could expect to see in 2020.
Private Credit Players Taking AICPA Guidelines, Growing Market Pressures In Stride
Market participants embrace best practice guidance, adjust policies accordingly. But the AICPA’s best practices are not without challenges and intricacies for the private debt and private credit professional.
Leveraging MSO Structures To Infuse PE Investment In Physician Practices
Private equity investor interest in the physician practice sector has been gaining steady momentum.
Rollover Equity: Don’t Just Take It At Face Value
Several factors, including the rights and preferences of the rollover equity compared to the private equity sponsor’s shares and the sources of deal financing, have important implications for valuation.
US Private Equity
Summary of key Q3 2019 metrics for the PE deal environment, including median PE buyout EV/EBITDA multiples.
Global Mergers & Acquisitions
The state of the deal: key metrics summarizing global M&A activity over the past quarter.
Q3 2019 Economic Snapshots
Quick-hit visual summaries of the leading economic and financial indicators in major economic markets.
Goodwill Impairment: User Survey Summary
To better understand the needs and views of “users” of financial statements, VRC surveyed financial analysts, a group mainly comprised of CFA charterholders, who conduct fundamental analysis on public companies.
Goodwill Impairment: Preparer Survey Summary
We polled our clients for their thoughts on the current accounting for goodwill and intangible assets and have summarized our findings.