A great roster of summertime CPE webinars.

Fairness Opinions (July 30), featuring John Ashbrook (FMV Opinions). The Advanced Webinar Series on Valuations for Business Transactions concludes with a discussion on the purpose, preparation, and best practices of fairness opinions.

Valuing Hospitals (July 31), featuring Don Barbo (Deloitte Financial Advisory Services) and Robert Mundy (Pershing Yoakley & Associates). Find out how regulatory, economic, and market trends are affecting the values and valuations of the largest players in the healthcare economy.

Valuing Staffing Agencies (August 5), featuring Mandeep Sihota (Citrin Cooperman). Learn how to assess the value of a business closely tied to the labor market, with low barriers to entry and stiff competition.

Advanced Workshop on Determining Volatility and Market Yield: Developing Inputs for the Valuation of Options and Debt Securities (August 7), featuring David Dufendach, Oksana Westerbeke, and Jared Hannon (all Grant Thornton). In valuing both options and debt securities, appraisers face the challenge of providing a valuation that will account for market changes. Learn how to harness market data, separate fact from fiction, and create sound and defensible measures of volatility and market yield through this intensive, four-hour workshop with three of the most knowledgeable voices in the field.

The Cost Approach in Measuring Contributory Assets (August 12), featuring Nathan DiNatalie (SC&H Group). The Appraisal Foundation's continued guidance on intangible asset valuation has put the spotlight squarely on contributory assets. Learn how to comply this guidance when utilizing the cost approach in measuring contributory assets.