Security Vs Compliance When people think about security and compliance they often think that they’re the same thing: if you’re being compliant aren’t you also being secure (and vice versa)? The truth is that compliance doesn’t always equal security, and security doesn’t always equal compliance. Information technology has reached highs previously thought to be impossible—the…
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Bolt-On and Tuck-In Acquisitions What is a Bolt-On Acquisition? A bolt-on acquisition refers to when a private equity firm attaches a smaller company to a larger “platform” company. This platform company will have a strong presence in the market with an intact and maneuverable management structure, economies of scale, infrastructure and all of the things…
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Document Retention and How It Can Help Your Business According to newly revised rules from the US government, document retention and a good document retention policy is essential. Document retention refers to the way that companies can retain, review and destroy documents possessed and created by the business. What is a Document Retention Policy? A…
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What Are Audit Logs? An audit log (also known as an audit trail) is a chronological, secure record, or set of records, that provide evidence that activities or a sequence of activities have affected an operation, procedure, or event. In other words, when any change is made to a system’s behavior, that change is documented…
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How to Sign and Date PDFs Using Caplinked’s Virtual Data Room and Watermarking Tool Everyone has experienced the hassle of receiving a document only to have to print it out sign it and fax it back in. (Who has fax machines anymore?) This headache has been alleviated in recent years through a number of services,…
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What is Accretive Acquisition? An accretive acquisition is an acquisition that increases the acquiring company’s earnings per share (EPS). These acquisitions benefit the company’s market price because the price paid by the acquiring firm is lower than the financial boost that the new acquisition is expected to provide to the acquiring company’s EPS. As a…
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How To Share a Secure PDF Much of Business is Done These Days Via PDFs—But Are Those PDFs Really Secure? A PDF, or Portable Document Format, is a file developed by Adobe in the 1990s to present documents in a way that preserved the fonts, layout, and graphics of the original document without being susceptible…
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Your company is an important asset. Learning its true value is necessary as you prepare for a Merger and Acquisition process (M&A). Evaluating a business is science that demands the application of smart valuation methods. However, keep in mind that buyers and sellers alike use different business valuation methods to assess companies. So several buyers…
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As the world of fintech continues on a trajectory of evolution and disruption over recent years, the industry has become a hot topic in media and among companies using the technologies. A 2018 executive survey (http://newvantage.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Big-Data-Exe cutive-Survey-2018-Findings.pdf) found that nearly 80% of top executives feared that their firms were at risk of disruption and…
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