Duff & Phelps assisted Boston Scientific in estimating the fair value of employee stock options for financial reporting purposes.
Duff & Phelps provided auction rate securities and convertible debt valuation advisory services to jetBlue Airways for financial reporting purposes.
Duff & Phelps served as financial advisor and provided valuation services for warrants and structured products for International Financial Reporting Standards 39 compliance.
Duff & Phelps provided auction rate securities valuation advisory services to NYSE Euronext for financial reporting purposes.
Duff & Phelps managing director Rick Schwartz and vice president Amy Thomas discuss how companies can address underwater stock option issues in the July / August 2009 issue of Thomson Reuters Valuation Strategies.
What are the implications of the new fair value standard? How different is the new definition of fair value from historical definitions? How will it impact the valuation of the portfolio? What are you doing or have you done to get ready? Are you compliant?
A wide range of credit markets have experienced distress as evidenced by declining prices and decreased liquidity. The list includes mortgage-backed securities, leveraged loans, CDOs, CLOs and other asset-backed structures. Failure of the ARS market is just the latest example of the problems created by the weakening credit markets.
Originally presented on Thursday, June 05, 2008.
Originally presented on Friday, January 18, 2008
Due to recent failed auctions related to the current credit crisis, firms unable to liquidate these securities face the challenge of determining their market values for financial reporting purposes.
The recent credit crisis has had broad reaching implications for financial institutions and non-financial companies alike. Every day companies are announcing significant write-downs in investments in a variety of complex securities that are linked to the subprime crisis.