Making the Most of the Q Ratio

Making the Most of the Q Ratio

by Service2Client | Nov 1, 2026 | Blog, General Business News, Uncategorized

🖨 Print⏱ 3 min readBe it an internal or external valuation, there’s a bevy of options to value a business with ratios. Examples include price-to-earnings, price-to-sales or EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization). Along with these...
Valuation Reserve Requirements

Valuation Reserve Requirements

by Service2Client | Oct 1, 2026 | Blog, General Business News, Uncategorized

🖨 Print⏱ 3 min readAccording to Fitch Ratings, over the past 12 months ending August 2026, there were 109 defaults by 89 entities, compared to the same period ending July 2026, when 83 entities saw 105 defaults. With businesses (especially life insurers) exposed to...
Understanding Inflation Accounting

Understanding Inflation Accounting

by Service2Client | Sep 1, 2026 | Blog, General Business News, Uncategorized

🖨 Print⏱ 3 min readAccording to the July 12, 2026, Consumer Price Index Release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the 12-month inflation rate rose by 3.4 percent, and the month-over-month measure rose by 0.1 percent in July 2026 compared to June 2026. With...
Understanding the Exchange Ratio

Understanding the Exchange Ratio

by Service2Client | Aug 1, 2026 | Blog, General Business News, Uncategorized

🖨 Print⏱ 3 min readWith more than $57 trillion in mergers and acquisitions, according to the Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions & Alliances, understanding how the Exchange Ratio works is essential for businesses and investors to maximize these processes.The ratio...

Understanding Depreciation Recapture

by Service2Client | Jul 1, 2026 | Blog, General Business News, Uncategorized

🖨 Print⏱ 3 min readThis accounting and tax method refers to a treatment used by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to obtain tax remittances on sales of depreciated property. Understanding how it works is essential for filers to make the most of it.Required...

Understanding Horizontal Analysis

by Service2Client | Jun 1, 2026 | Blog, General Business News, Uncategorized

🖨 Print⏱ 3 min readHorizontal Analysis provides businesses a method to examine financial statement entries by looking at the documents’ number for a specific accounting time frame compared to the same length of a historical period for the same accounting line...
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