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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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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024

Brown Advisory

Both types of error are due to a combination of either mis-assessing the business quality or its valuation (or both). Our 10/10/3 valuation framework using a 10% weighted average cost of capital is undoubtedly conservative and ends up with us missing some big opportunities as type 2 errors of omission.

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Worst Performing Stocks in India For 5 Years!

Trade Brains

At its height spanning 14 years between 2002 and 2016, the company went on an acquisition spree. The majority of the issues related to Yes Bank were related to corporate governance and compliance. Yes Bank however under-reported its NPA by a huge margin from 2016-2018 in an attempt to mislead its investors.

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: August 2023

Brown Advisory

At the margin, the factors can be a tailwind as experienced in 2017 and 2018 or a headwind as seen in 2016 and 2022, but when we look at attribution over the past three years in the chart below it shows over 100% of the strategy’s alpha came from individual investment selection or stock-picking as the factors combined were a net negative drag.

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Strategic Advisory Letter | 2015 Year-End Planning Checklist

Brown Advisory

For example, the filing dates for reporting foreign gifts and foreign accounts will move from March 15 and June 30, respectively, to April 15 for tax years 2016 and beyond (to be clear, these deadlines won’t change this year, the changes take effect in 2017 for 2016 returns). Shift income into the more advantageous tax year.

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Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research

Brown Advisory

Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research achen Mon, 09/12/2016 - 10:22 ARM Holdings rose to dominance among makers of smartphone microprocessors by focusing on energy efficiency rather than pure computational power and speed. Our strategy is different from all of the above.

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Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research

Brown Advisory

Mon, 09/12/2016 - 10:22. On July 18, 2016, Softbank announced plans to buy the company at a 43% premium to the prior day’s closing price. We look for fundamental strengths, attractive valuations and what we call Sustainable Business Advantage (SBA). Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research.

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