As we are getting ready to embark on the Natural Products Expo West Show – the largest natural and organic tradeshow in the world – in Anaheim on March 9, 2016, I still am thinking about the companies I visited and the trends I saw at the Winter Fancy Food Show held in San Francisco in January. The Winter Fancy Food Show had over 1,500 exhibitors and more than 1,000 n [...]

By: Justin Wedell (guest blogger, Nonprofit Empowerment Program, Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation) For anyone even tangentially involved in the world of nonprofits, doing more with less has probably been a common motif throughout your experience. To be fair, there’s nothing wrong with efficiency and pursuing less wasteful and more sustainable operations. However, th [...]

The Super Bowl means a lot of different things to millions of Americans, with some sources saying that only 60 percent of Super Bowl viewers are actual football fans. It seems as though there are many for whom the chicken wing is even more important than the pigskin — this year for instance, Americans were predicted to eat 1.3 billion chicken wings over the Super Bowl [...]

EST, VOD, SVOD, FVOD, and ADSS… What do they mean, and why do we care? The ascent of new media markets – with the simultaneous decline of the hard goods home video industry – is evidence of a diversifying brave new media world. Understanding the nature of the emerging markets themselves and how the different studios report them is imperative for those who follow enter [...]

By Jason Booth (Principal, GHJ) Just days ago (Feb. 10, 2016), the Australian treasurer introduced draft legislation to ensure that the country’s goods and services tax (“GST”) would apply to digital products and other services provided to Australian consumers by foreign vendors in a way that is similar to how GST applies to Australian vendors providing equivalent pro [...]

In a transaction consummated by parties who are unrelated and on an equal footing, one often assumes that the terms of the transaction should represent the fair market value of the property being exchanged. Even the tax law appears to follow the same assumption that “” After all, the fair market value of a property is generally established in an arm’s length transacti [...]

The Chinese market for entertainment has grown exponentially over the last several years. With U.S. entertainment companies forming “co-production joint ventures” with various Chinese film production companies, the need for accuracy and completeness of foreign distribution becomes more significant. Based on my experience with profit participation auditing in China, he [...]

By: Judy Bamberger (Guest Blogger, Encore Fellows Program Manager, Social Venture Partners) Over the next decade, the population over age 65 will increase dramatically from 10 percent to 25 percent. How can society take advantage of these extensive skills, knowledge and life experiences? In response, Social Venture Partners recently launched its Encore Fellows program [...]

Volunteers are an integral part of the nonprofit world. Most nonprofits can’t operate without their volunteers. Not only do they provide their time and skills to help support your cause at no cost, but volunteers are ten times more likely to donate to your organization. The more volunteers and the more donors you get for your organization, the better. This means it [...]