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If you're questioning the viability of one of your firm's business units, follow five steps before you decide how to cut your losses. Have you been confronted by investment analysts [...]

The bankruptcy accounting field offers a wealth of opportunity. As the number of financially troubled companies has increased during the past decade, so has the number of companies filing for [...]

When remodeling the Martin's Food Store complex in Hagerstown, MD, engineers had to design a stormwater detention system that would handle the expanded site's stormwater runoff as well as that [...]

Licensing talks stall Fairfax-based LC Technologies Inc. has one foot in the door in an effort to license the University of Virginia's innovative 'eye gaze' technology for quadriplegics. But its [...]

Banks and other lenders should consider restructuring their loan losses before Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (SFAS) No. 114 is in effect on Dec 15, 1994. A decision on whether to restructure a loan prior to the adoption of SFAS No. 114 would not change the economic outcome of the lender's portfolio, but it would allow the lender to reduce future interest income from the loan. Restructured loans declared prior to Dec 15, 1994, would be accounted for based on the SFAS No. 15 accounting standard., THE IMPACT will depend upon the composition of the lender's loan portfolio. By restructuring their troubled loans before a new FASB accounting standard takes effect, banks and other lenders can [...]

From: Stephen Cooper, director of fire engineering Cundall Johnston & Partners IT IS GOOD to see some balanced reporting on the warehouse fire emerging at last [First Off, Dec-Jan]. There [...]

Ronald Torrence Fired, he prospered helping other people save their businesses Seven years and seven jobs after graduation with a M.B.A. from Harvard, Ronald W. Torrence had reached his fork [...]

Emerson surfaces as HMO profits Former board member takes reins at healthy Health Plus Jeff Emerson has been with Riverdale-based HealthPlus Inc. in good times and bad. In the early [...]

Firm buys license for new Down's test A small Gaithersburg-based firm has bought the license for new biotechnology developed in Canada that it hopes will cut in half the time [...]

Spy-tech firm seeks higher visibility This spring when U.S. Customs Service agents busted an international drug smuggler who had flown a plane full of marijuana from Haiti to Leesburg, a [...]

An area banker picks up a wrench By Stephen K. Cooper Former Washington-area banker Donald E. Ervin has traded his chalkstriped suit and banker's hours for a job managing 360 [...]

A manufacturer produces vending machines that take cans, deliver coins Nowadays vending machines sell everything from sodas to miniature radios to candybars, so why shouldn't there be a vending machine [...]

The contrarian strategies of two D.C. area firms A maker of surfing gear uses East Coast as base for Pacific sales Instinct Sportswear Inc. of Alexandria is counting on a [...]

Firm here may convert asbestos to glass Privately held Vitrifix Inc. of North America is about a month away from an asbestos elimination test for the Environmental Protection Agency, which [...]

Weeping willows and soaring sales: a moving tale about trees There's a tree-moving company growing in Woodbine, Md. Nestled away in the backwoods of Howard County, about 30 miles north [...]

Small business bank is a hit here Its aim may look modest, but it has hit Montgomery County with a bang. Formed to meet what its organizers believe are the [...]

Spa Lady goes public through the back door Annandale-based Spa Lady Corp., which operates 36 fitness centers for women, plans to go public by a back door route this week. [...]

Market comes of age As a hotly competitive trade magazine serving the advertising profession, Adweek must forever have its ear to the ground or miss the latest agency to display [...]

Survival Tech expects black Survival Technology Inc. of Bethesda said a $14.4 million letter contract awarded by the Department of Defense (DoD) for the company's auto-injection equipment should boost its [...]

Arlington software firm surprises analysts Analysts had expected American Management Systems Inc. of Arlington to reprot flat earnings for the first quarter of 1987, but the software development firm surprised [...]