Our Media Consulting Group specializes in
financial, operational, consulting services and mergers and
acquisitions. While primarily involved with magazines,
we also provide services to book publishers, video publishers,
software publishers, trade show companies and investment bankers.
The principals of our Media Consulting Group have over 100
years of combined consulting and hands-on experience in all
aspects of the management and operations of magazine publishing
companies.
The
Media Consulting Group is an affiliate of Bay Sherman & Craig, LLP, a well-known West Coast firm that provides
traditional accounting, tax and financial planning services.
Strategic
Planning
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Business plans, cash-flow projections and budgets
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Operations Reviews
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Management reporting system
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Budgeting and Forecasting
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Printing and Production Reviews
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Recruitment and Training of Financial Personnel
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Interim Management Services
Valuations
Mergers
and Acquisitions
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Representation of both buyers and sellers
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Review of potential business acquisitions
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Assistance in structure of transactions
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Due diligence
Industry
Cost and Compensation Surveys
Litigation
Consulting
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Expert witness testimony
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Assistance in preparation for depositions, trials and settlement
negotiations
Peter M. Craig, Partner
Mr. Craig has been involved in the publishing
industry since 1967.
In addition to consulting with dozens of publishing
companies in all aspects of financial matters, he has presented
over a hundred seminars over the last twenty-five years on
mergers and acquisitions, valuations and other aspects of
management and operations of magazine publishing companies,
book publishing companies and video publishing companies.
He has also published a book on valuations, accounting
and financial operations for publishing companies.
Harold W. Jaffe, Partner
Mr. Jaffe has been actively involved in
the publishing business since 1977.
He has held senior management positions with Knapp
Communications Corporation and California Magazine, including
accounting and business manager, controller, vice-president/senior
administrative officer and CFO. His magazine and overall management experience reflects a diverse
background in financial, administrative/personnel and acquisition
areas. Within
the publishing field, Mr. Jaffe is frequently called upon
to lecture on financial management, budgeting and valuation.
1105 Media, Inc.
American
Business Media
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Clinic Publishing Division
Magazine Publishers of America
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Publications, Inc.
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