At the recent NACVA conference in Las Vegas, Roger Grabowski (Duff & Phelps) and Shannon Pratt (Shannon Pratt Valuations Inc.) talked about the problems they see in converting a discount rate developed from after-tax returns to a pretax equivalent discount rate.
Common error: “Notable experts got it wrong,” says Grabowski. So the authors added a chapter on the topic in the newly released fifth edition of their landmark book, Cost of Capital, Applications and Examples. “It’s a very short but very important chapter,” says Pratt.
Extra: The September issue of Business Valuation Update will include a review of the book written by Ted Israel, who is director of the Forensic and Valuation Services division of Eckhoff Accountancy Corp.