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Tips to Identifying Personal Expenses When Doing Income Reports

An important issue for any Income For Support (“IFS”) report is identifying personal items that are included in the expenses of a business. While it is extremely common for business owners to deduct personal items in their expenses, it can be …

Understanding Income Valuations and the Discounted Cash Flow: An Introduction

This article is an add-on to our previous article on the Capitalized Cash Flow (CCF) approach. Another income approach is the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) approach. People who do not work in finance are likely unfamiliar with the term DCF. This method …

Tariffs and Business Valuation - What's the Impact?

If there was one word that I would use to describe the start of 2025 it would be uncertainty. Not only are we in the midst of a provincial election in Ontario, but a Federal election is likely around the corner and there has obviously been a major …

2024 Capital Gain Changes - Where are We Now?

In May 2024, we wrote an article detailing the changes that came out of the 2024 Federal Budget with respect to the taxation of capital gains and the corresponding impact on family law. While it was widely expected that those changes would be …

How Should I Approach an Acquisition?

Find a Target It’s likely you have been thinking of expanding your business portfolio for a period of time before you are ready to act. When you are ready to find a business to acquire, you need to explore your options. The easiest place to start is …

The Benefits of Mergers and Acquisitions

Whether you are the one acquiring a company, or transitioning a company to someone else, there are a number of potential benefits available to combining organizations.

Drive the Value of Your Business

Given the current economic climate, where we are seeing increased M&A activity within our client base, it is important for business owners to start to think about and focus on activities that they can undertake to enhance the value of their …

Selling Your Business is a Process

If selling your business is an option that you wish to explore and possibly move forward with, we highly recommend that you follow a structured process involving preparation and market execution. Further, expect timelines of six to eighteen months …

Understanding Income Valuations and Capitalized Cash Flow

When you think about how much something is worth—like a car, an investment in a rental property, or even a business—there are different ways to figure that out.

The 2024 Federal Budget & Capital Gains - Impact to Family Law

By now, most people reading this article are aware that on April 16, 2024 Justin Trudeau’s federal government made some pretty significant changes to the taxation of capital gains.

Income for Support – To Average or Not to Average? – This is the Question.

What is Income For Support? Income for support becomes more challenging when an individual is self-employed, as by virtue of owning their own business they will have certain tax planning opportunities that enable them to reduce their taxable income …

Unraveling the Mystery around General Ledgers

From a family law standpoint, the general ledgers of a business are one of the more critical pieces of disclosure that are typically required for the preparation of business valuation and income for support reports.

Financial Disclosure:
A CBV’s Perspective

Obtaining adequate disclosure in a family law matter has become increasingly difficult over the last couple of years. Whether it’s a lack of cooperation from the business-owning spouse (who is on the opposite side of the file) or clients not wanting …

Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency is a digital form of currency that uses cryptography for security purposes. It is decentralized and generally operates on a technology called blockchain, which is a distributed ledger that records all transactions across a network of …

Enterprise Value vs Equity Value

When talking about the “value” of a business, there are a number of different value references that one will come across and it is easy to be confused by what they all mean. From a litigation standpoint, the primary concepts are fair market value …

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