The third of the big three business valuation conferences is the NACVA and the Consultants’ Training Institute’s 2024 Business Valuation & Financial Litigation Super Conference December 12-13 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. BVWire will be there in-person to take advantage of the opportunities to network—and to check out the four tracks and almost 40 sessions, plus a full-day preconference program. There will be several sessions on artificial intelligence and automated valuation models for valuation and forensics, including a perspective from the courts. Here are a few more sessions we don’t want to miss:

• The Company Specific Risk Premium—Identification and Quantification, with Roger Grabowski (Kroll), who is on The Appraisal Foundation Working Group studying the topic (a formal advisory is in the works);
• State of the Valuation Profession, with Chris Mercer (Mercer Capital), an update to a popular session from last year;
• New Perspectives on the Age Old DLOM Challenge, with Dr. Ashok Abbot (West Virgina University) and Frank Wisehart (BRG), introducing the use of exchange option models for estimating DLOM/blockage discounts—and they will present an online application to estimate the discount;
• Global Economic Update: Impact on Cost of Capital and Valuations, with James Harrington (Kroll) and Carla Nunes (Kroll), always a very informative session; and
• What the IRS Looks for in a BV Report, with Mike Gregory (Michael Gregory Consulting), former IRS manager who always reports on the latest goings-on at the agency.

There are many more sessions, and there will be something for everyone. You can attend in-person or virtually, and there is an á la carte option for virtual attendees. For details and to register, click here.