A little late, but a blog post at CFO.com about the level of service a small-cap public company can expect to receive from a Big Four auditor compared to a mid-size firm seemed interesting enough to share: CFO.com reader Kunal Ganguly wrote us to say a company of Catapult’s size, with its $102 million marketContinue reading “Are small-caps better served by mid-size firms?”
Author Archives: Neil
IFRS and principles too weak to work?
Al Rosen, in the second of a three part series in the Financial Post about the transition from Canadian GAAP to IFRS: IFRS is too weak in its current form for investors to accept on par with current Canadian standards. Nonetheless, we are on course to implement IFRS in just three years. He quotes andContinue reading “IFRS and principles too weak to work?”
Staff retention at midsize firms charts new waters
An article in WebCPA talks about the steps midsize firms in particular are taking to ensure their young people stay put: More midsized firms are starting to address this issue by paying attention to what younger people need to stay engaged. Some are including younger staff members in more significant firm decisions through advisory boards;Continue reading “Staff retention at midsize firms charts new waters”
Facebook as the intranet
When I first heard about the company using Facebook as their intranet, I wasn’t sure what to think. Serena Software is really replacing its existing intranet with Facebook as a front end linked to a low-cost content management system behind the firewall. The firm is just over 800 employees but is still globally based (operationsContinue reading “Facebook as the intranet”
Do we have a software valuation issue?
Soumitra Dutta of French business school Insead thinks so, as reported in this story on CFO.com: Insead has developed a “novel technique” to value software assets. Using conjoint analysis — “a time-tested and widely used robust technique in marketing science,” Dutta claims — companies can place a value on software by identifying its individual attributes,Continue reading “Do we have a software valuation issue?”