Business Valuation Update
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- Using Rule of Thumb Data to Uncover Cooked Books
Top BV Experts Field Tough Questions at NACVA ‘Hardball’ Session
Most conference sessions are scripted affairs, but not “Hardball With Hitchner,” one of the most popular sessions at the recent NACVA annual conference in San Diego. This session has become a tradition over the years, and it’s where you get to hear unfett ...
Book Review: The 2014 Valuation Handbook – Industry Cost of Capital
When my copy of the 2014 Valuation Handbook – Industry Cost of Capital (Duff & Phelps) arrived, the cover somehow struck me as familiar. I checked my library, and, sure enough, the cloth-over-cardboard cover was the same type of binding as that on my cost ...
Probing the Values of Professional Service Firm Brands
Although marketing has become more important for accounting and advisory firms, branding is usually not a big issue. The corporate brand typically carries the name of the founders, a combination of the former names of now merged entities, or an abbreviati ...
BV News At-a-Glance
A monthly roundup of key developments from the standard setters, regulators, and valuation professional organizations (VPOs), plus noteworthy new books, research papers, and studies of interest to business valuation experts.
Global BVU News and Trends May 2018
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Seven Tips on Cost of Capital From the AICPA FVS Conference
There was great interest in the several sessions on cost of capital at the AICPA Forensic and Valuation Services Conference 2015 in Las Vegas. Speakers acknowledged that this is a topic that has evolved into a very complex area with a voluminous amount of ...
Redefining the BV Profession at NACVA’s Annual Conference
In today’s so-called “connected” world, more people get their information electronically than ever before. That’s great, but there’s nothing like face-to-face interaction with your peers and BV thought leaders to help keep you informed about what’s going ...
Takeaways From the AICPA FVS Conference
We attended many of the sessions at the AICPA’s 2017 Forensic and Valuation Services conference in Las Vegas along with over 1,000 attendees and found no shortage of tips, ideas, and advice.
BVR and Duff & Phelps Cost of Capital Platforms Go Head-to-Head at VSCPA
Both platforms give similar results when estimating the cost of capital for private firms. They were put through their paces at a recent conference presented by the Virginia Society of CPAs.
Items of Interest Gleaned From the ASA Conference Networking Ops
BV firm staffing troubles, Shannon Pratt’s video remarks about his new book, a new app for fractional interests, a heightened interest in businesses with a real estate component, and help needed in developing a new module for the Cost of Capital Navigator are just some of the things we learned outside the regular sessions at the ASA conference—in and around the exhibit hall and during the many networking breaks.
Book Review: Cost of Capital, Fifth Edition: A True Must-Have
It is a cliché to refer to a book as a “must-have,” but it is true of this fifth edition of Cost of Capital, Applications and Examples by Shannon P. Pratt and Roger Grabowski. If you are at all serious about the valuation of securities, business entities ...
Nicholas and Barry offer Media Industry Research Sources
Stamos Nicholas and Steve Barry offered a list of essential industry research sources for any appraiser with clients in this market segment to attendees at the ASA Current Topics in Business Valuation Conference.
Global BVU News and Trends April 2019
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
BVU News and Trends March 2020
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
Global BVU News and Trends August 2020
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Business Valuation Year in Review 2019
A look back at some of the developments in the BV profession in 2019, including important court rulings on tax affecting pass-through entities, a possible upending to the goodwill model, a new cost of capital platform gaining traction, and advances in fair value for financial reporting.
BVU News and Trends March 2019
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
Global BVU News and Trends September 2020
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
BVU News and Trends January 2018
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
BV News and Trends January 2023
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
Proposed DOL Regulation Includes Appraisers as ERISA Fiduciaries
Since 1976, U.S. Department of Labor policy has held that independent appraisers valuing ESOP stock are not considered fiduciaries. However, that policy could be reversed by a proposed DOL regulation announced last month (October 22) in the Federal Regi ...
Pros and Cons of Models for Estimating the Cost of Equity in a Global Setting
There was a great deal of interest in international cost of capital at the recent 2015 International Valuation Forum in Atlanta, sponsored by the International Association of Consultants, Valuators and Analysts (IACVA). During a presentation on this topic ...
Global BVU News and Trends April 2018
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Global BVU News and Trends March 2019
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Global BVU News and Trends October 2018
Business valuation news from a global perspective.