Most business owners only sell one business in their lifetime. The results of that sale can have a major impact on the financial future of the family. For most business sales we recommend that the seller engage a professional specializing in business sales to assist. There are two broad categories of professionals that engage in business sales business brokers and merger and acquisition advisors.

What should the seller be looking for? (more…)

No risk, no reward is one of the oldest adages in business. This formulation of strategic risk was first expressed in written form by the Greek scholar Herodotus in 450 B.C.

In the realm of corporate mergers and acquisitions, the challenge for many companies is to obtain a highly desirable product or technology while risking as little capital as possible.

While growth through Merger and Acquisition continues to be (more…)

While the volume of global mergers and acquisitions has fallen, companies with strong balance sheets will continue to investigate opportunities as a tool of growth. Even in what appears to be a bear environment, mergers will endure as a logical, efficient and profitable strategy for many companies in the global economy.

Yet among the thousands of mergers, large and small, most of them register some degree of failure, either because (more…)

1. What is the CCE Certification?

This cert was created because of the ISFCE desire to…

* Professionalize and further the field and science of computer forensics
* Provide a fair, uncompromised process for certifying the competency of forensic computer examiners
* To set high forensic and ethical standards for forensic computer examiners
* To provide a universally recognized, unblemished certification that i (more…)