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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

Toronto’s Mark Attanasio has spent some 20 years advising businesses at various stages in their development on what it takes to position themselves for growth – whether it’s through traditional transactional activities like management buyouts and mergers and acquisitions or via a public listing on a Canadian stock exchange. Is there more?

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6 “Shark Tank” Questions Every Business Owner Should Be Able To Answer

YoungUpstarts

By Richard Weinberger, PhD, CPA, CEO of the Association of Accredited Small Business Consultants and author of “ Propel Your Small Business to Success: Accelerated Actions to Maximize Profit “ If you had to stand before the shark investors in ABC’s “Shark Tank,” would you get stumped by their questions?

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How Startups Can Prepare For Their First Tax Audit

YoungUpstarts

Usually, the last thing they think about is when they should be talking to a CPA firm about their business lifecycle. It’s never too early to build a relationship with a trusted advisor, like a CPA, to understand the financial inner workings of the company. Millias is the managing partner and co-founder of OUM & Co.

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The Latest Questions Small Businesses Are Asking

Up and Running

Part of a venture feasibility study is to look at what financial resources are already available in personal bank accounts, equity in a home, life insurance, family and friends or from selling assets. Company culture is defined as the shared values, beliefs and practices of company employees including management.

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Microcredentials for the Effective Venture Capital or Private Equity Investor

David Teten

I’ve also published research here on private equity , venture capital , hedge funds and mutual funds , and angel investing , as well as on fund management : origination , due diligence , investment research , and portfolio acceleration. You can also always earn a MBA, CPA, and/or CFA.). HOW TO GET A JOB IN VC.

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Metrics: A double edged sword

The Equity Kicker

Calculating an accurate CPA by channel is a good example of something that sounds simple, but is notoriously difficult in practice. The problem is that they forget quickly, particularly when the team grows and the people managing to the proxy weren’t there when the conversation about it being a proxy was had in the first place.

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The Private Company Council

YoungUpstarts

Luckily, one organization is hard at work trying to make things more manageable for these middle market companies: The Private Company Council (PCC). Liabilities with characteristics of equity. What is the PCC? Accounting standards are not intended to create difficulty for private companies.

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