At the AICPA Family Law Conference in Las Vegas last week, Brenda Clarke (Seigneur Gustafson) and Stacey Udell (Gold Gocial Gerstein) recommended the following books for the valuation practitioner:

• Family Law Services Handbook: The Role of the Financial Expert (Donald Glenn, Thomas Burrage, Donald DeGrazia, and William Stewart
• Litigation Services Handbook: The Role of the Financial Expert, 4th ed. (Roman Weil., Peter Frank, Christian Hughes, and Michael Wagner)
• The Handbook for Divorce Valuations (Robert Kleeman Jr., R. James Alerding, and Benjamin Miller)
• Reasonable Compensation: Application and Analysis (Ronald L. Seigneur and Kevin Yeanoplos)
• Standards of Value; Theory and Applications (Jay E. Fishman, Shannon Pratt and William Morrison)
• A CPA’s Guide to Family Law Services(AICPA Business Valuation and Forensic & Litigation Services Section)
• BVR’s Guide to Personal v. Enterprise Goodwill, 2011 edition  (articles from leading experts)
• BVR’s Business Valuation in Divorce Case Law Compendium. The soon-to-be-released 2011/2012 edition contains court case digests, summary tables and a fully indexed and hyperlinked CD to the actual cases.  Download an excerpt from the Compendium.