On Saturday, President Trump issued four executive orders, one of which directs the Treasury Department to defer to use their authority to provide a grace period with respect to the withholding, deposit, and payment of the employee portion of Social Security taxes on wages paid for the period beginning September 1, 2020 and ending on December 31, 2020.

The social and economic impact of COVID-19 has negatively impacted company performance across many sectors. Businesses are faced with addressing an unprecedented ‘triple whammy’ of simultaneous liquidity, operational and strategic shifts.

Accelerated demographic shifts and dwindling populations are some of the triggers leading to detrimental enrollment loss in private schools across the U.S. In wealthier neighborhoods, private schools face increasing competition from their host public school districts, some of which spend over $20,000 per year to educate a single child. 

The Software & Technology (S&T) sector has been somewhat insulated from the negative financial and operational impact of COVID-19, however, the virus has brought about certain risks and altered the way we perform due diligence for most S&T deals.

With lock-down orders and social distancing rules in effect, many companies have transitioned their workforce out of the office and into working from home or other remote locations. While initially thought to be a temporary phenomenon, many companies are starting to consider more liberal remote work location policies as workers have proved that a more geographically dispersed workforce is not necessarily the hindrance to business operations that it was once thought to be.

This webinar explored the current developments and best practices related to the R&D Credit’s Process of Experimentation Test.

On this podcast series by Investment Magazine, Antonella Puca joins Alex Proimos to discuss the valuation issues of private equity funds and how to interpret fund performance.

Alvarez & Marsal Middle East assesses how GCC countries are progressing in the fight against money laundering.

Leading industry expert Rick Kozole is appointed as Managing Director to lead A&M's North American Automotive and Industrials Group

In this article A&M are looking at market access itself. They will examine new vulnerabilities in the long and difficult process of getting a drug or treatment to market. They will also investigate ways in which life sciences companies can respond to these challenges and create new, innovative solutions that work for patients and other stakeholders.

This past Friday, the IRS and the Treasury Department released the proposed carried interest regulations.

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many organisations seeing a rise in new forms of fraud cases, with investigations, involving the collection and evaluation of large datasets, happening at increasingly short notice. Legitimate interest provides a flexible legal basis under GDPR for fraud investigations but counter-measures are needed to balance the potential impact on individuals.

While taxpayers are still adjusting their organizational structures and transactions to address the weekly (almost daily) TCJA and COVID-19 guidance issued by the Treasury and IRS, they need to be cognizant that inauguration day is less than six months away.

As some of the most important data in an organization flows across the CFO’s desktop, it’s no surprise that machine learning is becoming an important part of the financial function.