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Treasury releases final opportunity zone regulations

Summary: The end of 2019 brought final regulations for opportunity zones, marking the end of the beginning of this critical but exhaustive process. While we didn’t get every change we wanted, clearly this will be supportive of advancing investment activity in opportunity zones. In this article, we highlight what we consider the most important elements of this comprehensive package.

12/20/2019

Management Consulting

Improving financial forecasting – and profits – with retail-ready analytics

A global retailer with $14 billion in annual U.S. sales relied on unconnected manual processes for financial planning and budgeting across thousands of stores and seven e-commerce sites.

11/21/2019

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CohnReznick CEO Frank Longobardi Interview with MLB Network at 2019 Winter Meetings

MLB Network host, Brian Kenny interviews Frank Longobardi, CohnReznick CEO about business insights to be gained from the business of baseball.

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Year-end tax planning considerations for private equity funds

Tax reform has dramatically changed the tax rules impacting private equity funds. As participants in the financial sponsors space, fund managers, investors, investment bankers, capital providers, legal counsel, fund administrators, portfolio company executives, and others need to have insight into today’s complex tax rules, especially as we approach year-end.

11/14/2019 | Jonathan Collett, Robert Richardt, Brigid Morrissey

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Birth of opportunity zones

Ira Weinstein, Managing Principal of CohnReznick’s Baltimore office, outlines the Opportunity Zones program – its origins, intentions, beneficiaries – and how the early lack of information and regulation has concerned potential participants.

11/18/2019
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Tax reform

With the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“Act”), there is much concern, as well as confusion, as to the impact the new legislation has on both businesses and individuals alike.

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Integrated business planning

As management seeks to understand profitability and accurately forecast performance, it faces numerous challenges, including complex supply chains, changing customer priorities, shortened product lifecycles, and evolving labor markets. Internally, managing data on disconnected spreadsheets and centrally controlled systems that do not support dynamic data feeds can impede communication of financial information across departments.

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Strategic tax issues for capital markets

Investment firms continue to deal with changing tax laws effecting every aspect of their businesses – from transactions, portfolio company operations to fund management. This resource center examines the critical tax issues impacting the investment community. Our professionals weigh in with advice to help you maximize opportunity and manage risk in today’s environment.

10/24/2019

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CohnReznick & Major League Baseball®

CohnReznick is proud to collaborate with Major League Baseball to reveal, explore, and celebrate the business behind the game we love. Examine the strategic issues franchises tackle on and off the field in two video series – - The Business of Baseball and Front Office Focus . Businesses of every kind face similar strategic and leadership issues every day. Explore our in-depth content to help you gain business building ideas from CohnReznick’s bench of seasoned pros.

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Commercial real estate: Digital and human experiences

Living in a bubble of digital convenience can drive a wedge between people and their community. Individuals are isolated, community is lost, and life becomes a little less human each day. It doesn’t have to be that way. Some CRE firms are putting people first by creating shared communities in office, retail, and entertainment facilities based on analytic insights into how occupiers live, work, and play. Data-driven knowledge enables companies to reshape their properties in ways that humanize technology while meeting tenant—and ultimately human—needs.

10/1/2019

Affordable Housing

Housing tax credit data analysis and report

Since 2012, CohnReznick’s Tax Credit Investment Services group is responsible for the nation’s most comprehensive analysis of its kind on the housing tax credit program. By tracking and analyzing the performance of more than 21,000 housing credit properties, CohnReznick’s reports help developers, investors, and other industry participants to establish best practices for acquiring, underwriting and managing tax credit investments, benchmark portfolios, examine operating expenses, and gain insight into the housing tax credits industry.

11/15/2019

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