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Good Preparation Leads to a Good Audit Experience: What to Expect from Your Investment Advisor

Brown Advisory

Explain the timing difference and cutoff on valuations. An auditor is often most concerned with point-in-time valuations and keenly focused on financial controls, especially the nuances of the accounting rules regarding liquidity (e.g. Define the type of investments involved, (e.g., bonds, stocks, mutual funds, limited partnerships).

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

And so in the 1990s, I developed the, the late 1980s, early 1990s, I developed a skillset around valuation, in particular discounted cash flow or residual income type models, along with a couple of peers out of the consulting industry. The F, there is a subsequent change in 2006 called the Pension Protection Act.

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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

They went public in 2006. They went public in May of 2006, and they’ve been public now for — RITHOLTZ: The argument is they avoided trouble in the financial crisis because they didn’t have a decade of overleverage. RITHOLTZ: Oh, they did? COHAN: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: That’s right. They were really an M&A machine.