Ed Barton, JD, LLM, MBA, CPA, CFA, EA
Law, Tax, Finance, Turnaround Management and Transparent Leadership
This is part and parcel of my dissertation research right now. Combination of demographic headwinds, compliance costs deferred maintenance and deferred compensation are causing higher ed institutions to really struggle – especially in the Midwest and Northeast. “If there’s one…
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Do you let “perfect be the enemy of the good?” Today’s customer is looking for speed and frictionless transactions – often ahead of money or perfection. Time is the one thing they can’t make more of. “Move fast and break…
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When assessing a business for acquisition or turn around, focus on six basics – Management, Assets, Strategy, Revenue, Costs and Potential synergies/M&A. What might look good on a spreadsheet or a presentation often fails one or more basic. Be ready…
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Leveraged loans, covenant lite agreements and historically low interest rates and defaults gave us a frothy corporate debt market. An economic downturn could be crushing on weak banks/FI’s and investors, as well as companies on the edge. The article by…
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According to Sparktoro, almost 50% of searches result in no-click – including over 60% of mobile. Is your business optimized for GMB? Is your content structured so you get in featured snippets? SEO & users are changing. Is your strategy?…
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Technology companies often focus on their products and leave service levels far behind. They rely on shiny objects and whiz-bang features to sell products. Companies that lead with technology often forget that the result of a customer interaction isn’t the…
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Spent the last few days (and much of this week) reviewing CCPA and emerging trends in data privacy. I expect this will become a Federal issue given interstate commerce implications – and it needs to be. A patchwork quilt of…
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According to research conducted by Forbes magazine and the Treasury Inspector General, potentially $100 million in EV credits were wrongfully claimed since 2013. The Service publishes a list of allowable vehicles that are eligible for credit. In general, the credit is…
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The 2017 federal tax law, which President Trump signed after a party-line vote in Congress, limited to $10,000 the state and local tax payments that families can write off on their federal income taxes if they itemize deductions. The provision, known…
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Critical Public Policy Issues Impacting Higher Education from 2019-2024 Identified in our Delphi Study (Anderson, 2019), as well as in many of the articles researched is tension between the need for adequate funding to transform the current educational model…
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