Illustration: Rahul Awasthi The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of healthy living among a wider set of consumers, brands have said. As a result, premium direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands in the health and wellness space have seen a sustained increase in orders, data shared by ecommerce firms Amazon and BigBasket, as well as the brands […]
Archives for September 2020
DoL takes aim at proxy voting in latest proposal
Just as advisors had wrapped their brains around private equity in retirement plans and a fiduciary rule replacement, the Labor Department is proposing even more regulation — and with a short turnaround time, too. Under its latest proposal, issued Aug. 31, the department is turning its attention to proxy voting in a rule that would […]
Big Trends Monthly: Here Comes September
[embedded content] Subscribe to The Compound here! Welcome to Big Trends Monthly with Josh Brown and JC Parets of All Star Charts. We’re breaking down the latest monthly closing candlestick charts to reveal the most meaningful market moves around the world. Sectors as varied as Consumer Discretionary, Healthcare and Materials are making new all-time monthly […]
TQAs address lease accounting for retirement communities – Journal of Accountancy
Background and nonauthoritative guidance on lease accounting for continuing care retirement community Type A life care contracts is provided in Technical Questions and Answers (TQAs) published Monday by the AICPA. Developed by the AICPA Health Care Expert Panel, TQAs 6400.55–.62 discuss how to: Determine whether an embedded lease exists under FASB ASC Topic 842, Leases; […]
TQAs address lease accounting for retirement communities
Background and nonauthoritative guidance on lease accounting for continuing care retirement community Type A life care contracts is provided in Technical Questions and Answers (TQAs) published Monday by the AICPA. Developed by the AICPA Health Care Expert Panel, TQAs 6400.55–.62 discuss how to: Determine whether an embedded lease exists under FASB ASC Topic 842, Leases; […]
U.S. Voter Databases Offered for Free on Dark Web, Report
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LEBC chief exec stands down due to illness
LEBC chief executive Jack McVitie has stood down temporarily due to illness and is currently undergoing medical treatment. Mr McVitie, a Chartered Financial Planner, will be taking time off from the retirement adviser to aid his recovery with senior colleagues sharing his duties until he returns. The FCA has been informed and the company has requested […]
Ravi Shankar Prasad writes to Zuckerberg; condemns internal ideology war at Facebook
Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has shot off a terse letter to Facebook founder and chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg calling for “country specific Community Guidelines” which will “respect the social, religions, cultural and linguistic diversity of India.” Currently, Facebook employs their own Community Standard guidelines to moderate content in India, including hate speech and […]
ByteDance reconsidering sale options after China’s new tech export rules: Report
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is reconsidering his options and weighing the implications of Beijing’s involvement in TikTok sale, Bloomberg reported. The sale negotiations of the ByteDance-owned short-video app got another twist as China updated its more-than-a-decade-old export rules to include various technologies, including one “that sounded much like TikTok’s personalized recommendation engine”. […]
Adding Business Value That Is Actually, Well, Valuable
Want to increase your business’s prices? Add business value. Are you looking to stand out from competitors? Again, value is the answer. Whatever your objective, adding business value can help you get there. But, adding value to a company is easier said than done. How do you do it? Read on to learn how to […]