Category Archives: Accounting and financial reporting

Book Update: Accountants’ Liability (Third Edition)

Accountants’ Liability (Third Edition) is a comprehensive reference guide to auditor liability jurisprudence and defense strategies. Written by lawyers with decades of experience working at the reg­ulators of the profession and representing accounting firms and their personnel, this treatise helps the reader understand how to approach a regulatory investigation and the applicable laws, rules, and professional standards promulgated by organizations such as the FASB, AICPA, NASBA, and others that govern the profession. Every year, the authors update the book to address the latest key case law relevant to various defenses and privilege/protection assertions, and the sources of current claims, the various legal theories upon which they may be instituted, and the strategies and tactics used by the parties in litigating such claims.

The new release (Release 2) includes updates to the following chapters:

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February’s free form:

SEC Reporting Checklist

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Free Legal Form of the Month

PLI PLUS offers unlimited electronic access to more than 4,500 downloadable, searchable, and editable legal forms ready for use in your practice. In an effort to highlight this unique content type, we’ve selected one form per month and made it available for anyone to download for free – no subscription required.

May’s free form:

Template Clawback Policy

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New Title! Corporate Valuation in Mergers and Acquisitions

PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new treatise Corporate Valuation in Mergers and Acquisitions.

This book offers a solid primer on the legal, finance, accounting, and economic aspects of valuation in merger and acquisition (“M&A”) transactions.  It addresses a wide range of issues that can arise in the process of evaluating a target or acquirer in an M&A transaction. The book also provides helpful reference materials in each chapter that the reader may consult when facing a particular issue, along with many documentary appendices relating to valuation issues.

This book offers a solid primer on the legal, finance, accounting, and economic aspects of valuation in merger and acquisition (“M&A”) transactions.  It addresses a wide range of issues that can arise in the process of evaluating a target or acquirer in an M&A transaction. The book also provides helpful reference materials in each chapter that the reader may consult when facing a particular issue, along with many documentary appendices relating to valuation issues.

Notably, the book covers the following important topics:

  • Basic business and regulatory M&A principles (see Chapter 1)
  • Valuation due diligence (see Chapter 3)
  • The process for determining a target’s value (see Chapter 4)
  • The Relative Valuation Techniques (see Chapter 15)
  • Valuation issues in management-led leveraged buyouts of publicly held companies (see Chapter 18)
  • The valuation of commercial banks (see Chapter 19)
  • Arbitrage Pricing and Adjusted Present Value Models (see Chapter 20)

In addition, the book examines the role of investment bankers, valuation experts, and the courts in several instructive M&A cases.

We are excited to share this new title with you!

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