GLG News by LBO and M&A Accounting & Tax Consultants

Western Union is slow, disorganised, bureaucratic and expensive. New technology competitors are massing and will take market share unless the provider gets its act together.

The increased disclosures required by FIN 48 are clearly uncovering some notable “red flags” and could potentially result in material cash ramifications for certain companies. As a result, I believe the new standard is an important one for investors to understand and assess for potential risks on companies...

A recent article in the WSJ discusses that a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate is probing at least 30 companies regarding past tax-cutting transactions – with the author commenting the investigation appears to have been sparked by the new accounting rule known as FIN 48. Three companies are specifically...

Other bidders Unlikely but the deal may get more complex...

Financial Mismatching - Without understanding the funding connections among an individual sub-prime mortgage, the securitized bond issued with the mortgage as collateral, the hedge fund or managed money sourced to purchase the bond and the commercial paper issued to on-lend into the managed money fund,...

The stock market pricing trends have absorbed, already in their respective values, inflationary price trends in most commodity sectors.  These same general stock pricing trends have continued its bullish way despite crushing blows in terrorist attacks worldwide.  The onslaught of exuberant...

Adequately analyzing the balance sheet is an important step in the evaluation of a company – leading to (1) useful clues about future financial performance, (2) some notable warning signals and “red flags” and (3) uncovering some potential hidden assets and liabilities. A good example of “digging deeper”...

HSBC + Aviva Barclays + Aegon ABNAMRO + Delta Lloyd Others will follow. The impact will be less for consumers since banking is the opposite of selling power.

Deutsche Borse feel under pressure to make an acquisitionThey are looking for a transformational business - particularly something that gives them a key footprint in the USAThis is a distinctly attractive transformational purchase for Deutsche Borse and gives ISE a huge opportunity to bring US...

CBOT future has key implications for CMEAll futures exchanges have board issues