Picture this scenario: a 300-unit regional hospital in Ruraltown, USA, derives a significant amount of its revenue through its participation in government-sponsored Medicare and Medicaid programs and the hospital’s entitlement to prospective reimbursements from the government. Operations have been...
If restructuring professionals were asked whether the U.S. economy is currently weak or strong, they would likely offer varying answers depending on each professional’s experience. CFOs might answer entirely differently depending on the areas of business in which they operate. To avoid this kind of...
Anyone eating at an Applebee’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, Chili’s, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, Ruby Tuesday, or TGI Fridays is patronizing a casual dining restaurant. Casual dining establishments provide table service and have “price points of approximately $15 per meal” and “menus with a much...
In the robust financing environment of 2017, commercial bankruptcies leveled off from credit-crisis highs. Through the first three quarters of 2017, commercial bankruptcies totaled 17,371, a significant decline from the 2009 peak year, when 45,510 commercial bankruptcies were filed in the first...
At the end of 2014 and into early 2015, the sharp decline in the oil price was daily news. While there has been some recent respite from the price falls that were being recorded, this article explores how the new lower price will impact companies in the sector in the short and medium terms. From...
Crude oil and natural gas hit peak prices in mid-2014, with U.S. crude oil hitting $107 per barrel in June of last year. Since then, prices have fallen precipitously, reaching a low of less than $50 per barrel for U.S. crude in late January before rising somewhat in recent months and then falling...
The oil and gas industry is driven by the price of its commodity, fossil fuels, which varies—sometimes dramatically. Although huge swings in value are rare, the recent 50 percent drop in the price of oil (with some analysts predicting a drop to $20 per barrel), combined with historically low...
In the past five years nonconventional U.S. oil production has increased more than six-fold and by the end of 2014 had achieved the highest production levels of U.S. crude in 41 years. This explosive growth was fueled by the doubling of exploration and production (E&P) capex in extraction from...
The current chapter on the energy industry would be incomplete without insights from the field. The energy boom and subsequent bust led to some fairly extreme situations caused by some of the unique facets of the energy industry, the locations in which the energy boom played out, and the...
As this article is written, the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil (around $59.48/barrel as of June 30) remains 44 percent below a year ago, notwithstanding a recovery from the multiyear lows seen early this year. 1 While some observers speculate that this precipitous decline is the...
