restructuring

Tag: restructuring

Restructuring Expense

See Also: How to Estimate Expenses for an Annual Budget Administration Expenses Restructuring Expense Definition Restructuring expense is defined as the cost a company incurs during corporate restructuring. They are considered nonrecurring operating expenses and, if a company is undergoing restructuring, they show up as a line item on the income statement. Restructuring Charges Meaning

Read More

5 Signs It’s Time to Restructure Your Company 

Over the course of my 30+ years of financial experience, I’ve had a number of restructuring transactions. What I have found is that many companies do not know when it’s time to restructure their company. Instead, they wait until it’s too late and it becomes a liquidation event.  Restructuring can mean different things, there are restructuring

Read More

Recession = Fewer Professional Jobs Available

If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past 15 months, then you have probably noticed that the decline in oil prices has resulted in many Houston businesses experiencing symptoms of an economic recession. What does a recession mean for you? Historically, recessions equate to reduced availability of professional jobs. While the effects of the free fall in oil

Read More

Banks are Restructuring Troubled Loans

With oil prices the lowest they’ve ever been in recent memory, business owners and financial analysts are predicting either an economic downturn, or possibly another recession in oil producing states. Bad news for oil and gas companies? Maybe not… Recently, I spoke with several Houston area bankers and learned that there seems to be a general

Read More

Doing More With Less – Improving Productivity

Whether in response to low oil prices or simply in an effort to run leaner, companies across the globe are cutting jobs.  Last week, Chevron announced that it plans to lay off roughly 10% of its workforce, roughly 6000 to 7000 workers, in 2016 to deal with the plunge in crude prices.  Deutsche Bank recently

Read More

Cost Control vs Cost Reduction

There is a difference between cost control vs cost reduction. Most people think that controlling costs and reducing costs are one and the same when, in fact, they can generate two totally different outcomes. The first thing you need to know is that you can’t grow a company by cost reduction alone. You can get

Read More

Insolvency Definition

See Also: Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Bankruptcy Costs Bankruptcy Information Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio Analysis Insolvency Definition Insolvency is the inability to pay debts when they are due. It also occurs when a company’s liabilities exceed the value of its assets, if you cannot readily cover these the assets into cash to repay debts.

Read More

Economic Reset

I just returned from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 in New Orleans. At the conference I heard Steve Ballmer discuss the direction of the economy over the next several years. He believes that the world economy is going through an “economic reset”. Economic Reset According to Ballmer ,the world economy becomes overheated every twenty-five

Read More
WIKI CFO® - Browse hundreds of articles