Valuing intangibles – dispatches from the front
For our first IAFS program of the new year, Mary Adams be interviewing panelists are James Catty, Chairman, International Association of Consultants, Valuators and Analysts; and Gabe Fried, CEO, Streambank LLC., a valuator and an asset-backed provider of liquidity.
We are going to talk about lessons learned in the recession about valuing intangibles–what’s happened to the valuation of intangibles in distressed sales? How has this experience on the ground changed the approach taken by valuation professionals?
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I am especially excited about the program I am leading for this month’s IAFS program on “Counting Intangibles.” I’ll be interviewing two great guests:
Today, the intangible information gap in the average company is as high as 80%. It’s past time to close this gap and these are two people that can help us all understand how to do this. Please join in our discussion! -Mary Adams
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Tax payers expect police, national guard, and military to provide “real” security. Government expects the private sector to provide the lion’s share of security investment. Is there a business case that can help the private sector rationalize the investment and bridge the expectation gap?
Join us Friday, 3 September, at 12h00 EDT for the Mission Intangible Monthly Briefing. Sean Lyon, principal, R.I.S.C. International (Ireland), corporate defense pioneer and the architect of the emerging cross-functional discipline of corporate defense management (CDM) in conversation with Robert Liscouski, member of the Board, Implant Sciences (NASDAQ:IMSC) and former Assistant Secretary, US Department of Homeland Security will explore the business case.
Registration, as always, is complimentary. Slides and an exemplary downloadable program are posted on the EVENTS tab (Link to our Summer 2010 News page, our new RepuStars composite indices, and other content below). Mary Adams, I-Capital Advisors, moderates.
If you are a senior executive, a board member, or have a financial interest in any publicly traded security, you (or a colleague Send to a Friend) won’t want to miss this event. Learn more.
Accountants document on the balance sheet that which: (a) is a diminishing fraction of enterprise value; (b) excludes the innovations and business processes comprising intellectual properties (and rights) that create above-average profits; and (c) is of passing interest to risk and financial executives concerned with cash flow.
Are the rules and language of accounting a hindrance to the creation and monetization of intellectual properties, or irrelevant?
Join me Friday, 6 August, at 12h00 EDT for the Mission Intangible Monthly Briefing as I interview
Dr. Roya Ghafele, Lecturer at Oxford University and expert on IP perceptions, and formerly an economist at both the UN World Intellectual Property Organization and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and
Jim Singer, partner at the Pepper Hamilton law firm, a member of the firm’s intellectual property practice group who publishes the IP Spotlight blog, and is formerly an electrical engineer with an iconic oil firm.
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If you are general counsel, IP counsel, chief financial officer, a risk officer, an IP executive, a manager of strategic partnerships, a reputation executive (marketing, PR), a board member of any public company, or have a financial interest in any publicly traded security, you won’t want to miss this event.
In our book Intangible Capital, we call reputation the new bottom line. It is as important as the financial bottom line to the future of your organization. BP is just the latest in a long string of companies that have learned this lesson the hard way…”This has now turned into a reputation matter, financial and political, and that is why you will now see more of me,” said BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg 18 June 2010, as headline risk mushroomed and intangible asset value collapsed.
Join me Friday, 9 July, at 12h00 EDT for the Mission Intangible Monthly Briefing. I’ll be hosting Jonathan Salem Baskin and Nir Kossovsky to talk about reputation and how to manage it.
If you are general counsel, chief financial officer, a risk officer, a manager of strategic partnerships, a reputation executive (marketing, PR), a board member of any public company, or have a financial interest in any publicly traded security, you (or a colleague Send to a Friend) won’t want to miss this event. Learn more
The black goo may be coming ashore in the Gulf Coast, but many would argue that the muck originated in a remote boardroom. In the wake of major headline risk events at BP, Massey, and the venerated Johnson & Johnson, the IAFS’s Mission Intangible Monthly Briefing tackles the trifecta of risk, governance and compliance with our program, Driving intangible risk management into the C-suite.
Leading this conversation on Friday 4 June at 12h00 EDT are Matthew Hogg, Vice President at Liberty International Underwriters, who chairs the Society’s Risk Committee and Cathy L. Reese, a Principal with Fish & Richardson, who chairs the Society’s IA Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Hogg is a pioneer in intangible asset risk transfer; Ms. Reese is a leading advocate for board-level oversight of intangible asset management.
Registration for this and each Mission Intangible Monthly Briefing is complimentary. Slides and an exemplary downloadable program are posted on the website EVENTS page. Mary Adams, I-Capital Advisors, moderates.
If you are general counsel, chief financial officer, a risk officer, a manager of strategic partnerships, a reputation executive (marketing, PR), a board member of any public company, or have a financial interest in any publicly traded security, you (or a colleague Send to a Friend) won’t want to miss this event.
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