by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Business Plans, Financial Planning, Valuations
In today’s complex business world, shareholder disputes can be quite common. These disputes can be divisive, long-lasting and expensive, and can arise in almost any privately owned business. Some of the more common types of lawsuits that may be filed against...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Valuations
Marcus v. Quattrocchi, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19041 (Feb. 4, 2014) In an estate and trust case featuring a major real estate family, the plaintiff beneficiaries retained two experts to prove damages resulting from the alleged improper depletion of trust assets by way...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Valuations
Without the right information, answers can hard to figure out. In one case, the expert could not figure out why the company he was valuing kept on manufacturing and selling creosoted railroad ties, even though that division of the business had not been profitable for...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Accounting Standards, Business Plans, Valuations
The ultimate indicator of how well a small business is performing is how much the company is worth. Any benchmarking system should include fair market value as one of its primary metrics. With public companies, it’s easy to monitor this metric by tracking share...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Divorce Litigation, Valuations
Hill v. Hill, 2014 Tex. App. LEXIS 292 (Jan. 9, 2014) What happens to the commercial goodwill of a big accounting firm when a principal gets divorced? In a recent Texas appeals case, the wife accused the trial court of failing to account for commercial goodwill in...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Valuations
Hardenbrook v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15830 (Feb. 7, 2014) In an involved retaliation suit against UPS, which the employee won, one of the flash points was the calculation of lost future benefits, specifically the question of what the...
