FEI Weekly

June 26, 2015

Businesses adjusting to Obamacare ruling, consumer wages and spending increase, and how private equity firms assess investments.

Like It or Not, It’s Time to Face Obamacare

CFO

With Supreme Court ruling in favor of the government, the "employer mandate" stays in place and companies should start working to avoid the "Cadillac Tax."

Bosses to Micro Target Health-Care Law

Wall Street Journal (subscription may be required)

Employers — even those that don’t support the health-care law — will turn their attention to changing some elements they don’t like.

American Paychecks are Getting Fatter and Spending’s Rising, Too

Quartz

The monthly Bureau of Economic Analysis report on personal consumption expenditures shows Americans are getting higher wages and spending them to boot.

What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

PE firms typically take three types of value-increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

FASB Attempt at Debt Classification Simplification Concerns Private Firms

Bloomberg BNA (FEI Members Only)

Tentative decisions could result in a proposal to classify debt as current or noncurrent has raised concerns among private companies.