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Using Pricing Multiples and Rates of Return to Value Family Limited Partnerships
Do you value family limited partnerships (FLPs)? Do you know the proper application of pricing and rate of return data to derive a value using both the market approach and income approach? Do you know the best sources of empirical market data to use when valuing an FLP or other noncontrolling interest in a real estate-related entity, consistent with Rev. Ruling 59-60? Join this discussion on the practical application of the concepts discussed in Comprehensive ...
BVLaw Case Update
Join Jim Alerding and Jim Ewart, veteran valuators, and Drew Soshnick, family law attorney and experienced valuation expert, for a discussion of some of the most consequential recent valuation and financial litigation decisions. The three experts will present and discuss this selection of state and federal cases. The analysis of these cases, which the experts hand-picked for their importance, will provide insight into current issues in the business valuation arena and discussion of not only ...
Restaurant Valuation: Industry Segments, Trends, and the Impact of Real Property
Restaurants are one of the most prevalent business types in the U.S., with recent counts at over 600,000 of various types. Due to intensive competition, there is a high failure rate. There is also substantial activity in the sale of restaurants, which creates a need for business valuation work, whether for SBA financing or for a buyer or seller. Business appraisers are challenged to account for industry risk in assigning an appropriate discount rate. Franz ...
American Business Appraisers and BVR Annual Key Issues Update
Every year American Business Appraisers brings together experts from across the country for a frank and practical discussion of the issues impacting business valuation. This year, everyone is invited to four great sessions. Get a current update on the SBA Paycheck Protection Program and the forgiveness application. Adam Rosenfield gives an overview of what the most recent changes to the program are and how that affects clients/future clients. Get guidance on how the loan and ...
Keys to Using a Royalty Database
Follow along as we review the detailed processes ktMINE uses in order to mine and curate the public domain into the most robust transactions database on the market. We will discuss ktMINE's data sources, how the information is analyzed, and specific questions a practitioner may need to solve. Anyone who is interested in learning how to leverage a transactions database to execute effective valuations will benefit from attending.
Valuing the Misuse of Intellectual Property Online
The internet has enabled business to expand across the world but has also aided IP infringement and defamation to spread with the same ease. Experts Doug Bania and Brian Buss will update you on the internet and social media analytic tools available to valuation consultants and will deliver case studies on how to deploy these tools in your valuations and damages calculations. Bring your questions and become a better expert.
Projecting But-For Profits
Do you feel like being asked to calculate but-for profits feels like an engagement in another dimension? Calculating the harmed party in a position that it would have been “but for” the alleged acts is an advanced skill for appraisers. Join expert and contributing author to The Comprehensive Guide to Economic Damages, Stacey Udell, for a discussion of different strategies to determine net lost profits including the critical step of removing incremental costs that did ...
Fair Value in 2018: The Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
What in business valuation does the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act impact? Everything—including fair value. Join Mark Edwards for a discussion on how NOLs, goodwill, and ASC 805 are all impacted by recent tax law changes. Understand the base erosion anti-avoidance tax provisions and how expensing tangible property impacts your fair value assignments. Be confident in the changes you make for 2018 engagements with a thorough review of your income and market approaches.
Don’t Make Me Call Security!: How to Consider Data Security in a Business Appraisal
Cyber liability is of increasing concern for business owners and executives. With the average total cost of a single data breach of $8.19 million in the U.S., shareholder value can be wiped out with the click of a mouse. Cyber risk is a relatively new risk yet is a particularly lethal one. According to Inc. Magazine, 60% of successful cyberattacks force the target business to close. Appraisals that fail to explicitly address this risk are ...
The Impact of COVID-19 on Restructuring, Insolvency & Impairment
The world of valuation has changed along with everything else. In this panel on the Impact of COVID-19 on Restructuring, Insolvency & Impairment, three experts will discuss the changing environment for valuation assignments. Craig Jacobson, Richard Peil, and Dan Korcyk each bring a unique perspective and will discuss three specific areas where valuation activity might increase due to the virtual shutdown of the U.S. economy. Finally, we will discuss topics related to performing valuations in ...
Decoding the Cross-Professional Maze: A Guide to Persuasive Real Estate-Related Valuations
Key disconnects between the real estate and business valuation professions that can blow up holding company and other real estate-related valuations. Join Dennis A. Webb to learn about the built-in conflicts between real estate appraisal and business valuation. Do you think that the two related professions would have a common understanding of valuation premises, use of data, and the appraisal process generally? They don’t. Misunderstandings and blind spots affect valuations of pretty much any business ...
A Nation Getting Older: Valuing Senior Citizen Focused Companies
Join Vanessa Claiborne to learn the latest market trends in senior living, including the impact of the pandemic on value, key valuation metrics, and the short- and long-term outlook for valuations. With discussions on both skilled nursing and senior housing, this event will assist you in practical ways. Don’t miss this distinguished event.
Advanced Topics and Case Studies When Valuing Family Limited Partnerships and LLCs
As professional methodology has advanced and tax court cases have confirmed, employing analytical techniques to value family limited partnerships/LLCs using the income and market approaches allow appraisers to determine an accurate value objectively. Certain types of partnerships may be considered complicated. This webinar will focus on valuing more complex FLPs using case studies. Mr. Johnson will present empirical data that support the use of these objective appraisal methods and share his opinion on current issues ...
Valuing Businesses Catering to Seniors
Businesses that effectively address the needs of the senior population adapt to the changing needs and preferences of older consumers, and position themselves strategically can expect to see a positive impact on their valuation.
Business Prenups, Relationship Counseling, and Corporate Divorce
Healthy business relationships are an essential component of business success. As an advisor, it is important to recognize the foundations of a healthy business relationship and to account for same in valuing a business. Join William Piercy and Mark Zyla for a discussion of the factors that improve or detract from productive business relationships and the impact of those factors on the value of a business. If internal dissension within the management, operations, or ownership ...
Social Media: Who Owns It and What Is It Worth?
What’s worth more to a business: a Tweet, a share, a like, or a dollar bill? With over 80% of businesses now using social media, understanding how social media creates value is no longer an optional skill for professional business appraisers. For technology and social media companies, the value of their network can be the most critical part of their business. Expert Mark Zyla (@MarkZyla) shares his knowledge in this engaging session that will be ...
Valuing Closely Held Farms and Ranches With Economic Reality
Valuing a minority interest in an entity with farm/ranch ownership and/or operations can be tricky. As analysts, we are bound to valuation theory, but economic reality must play a role as well. As valuation professionals know, an owner of a minority interest cannot force liquidation of assets, so that precludes us from strictly employing the asset approach. However, cash flows from farms and ranches are very low in relation to the underlying ground; as such ...
Discounted Cash Flow: Speculative or Convincing
Gary Trugman and Harold Martin will discuss, debate, and dissect the pros and cons of using a discounted cash flow analysis, particularly in times of COVID-19. With questions such as how to handle the unknown future, when and how to use past performance to forecast the future, what to do when management gives you a forecast that you do not believe, and what to do when management is incapable of giving you a forecast at ...
Control Discounts and Premiums - What is Old and What is New
Where do they come from? Do they even exist? Should I fear using them? No, this October event doesn’t delve into the supernatural but rather attempts to demystify the methods and resources available to quantify control discounts and/or premiums. Join Jim Ewart and Jim Alerding to learn what is new, what is old, and what matters. Learn the sources, context, and usefulness of control premiums and discounts, and the best practices for determining what they ...
Valuing Small and Micro Businesses Using the Income Method
Focus in on valuing micro and small businesses using the income methods of business valuation. Learn to distinguish differing risk factors between large companies and micro and very small companies. Join Gregory Caruso for a deep dive into problematic areas of actual small-business valuation cases to review theory and tie it into the actual application of methods using best practices and professional judgment. Audience questions and succinct opinions welcomed in this hands-on event.
Collaborate With Valuation Professionals Who Complement Your Strengths to Better Serve Clients
Join Erika Heiser and Victor Werley to learn how to effectively collaborate with other valuation professionals to better meet clients’ needs. Fostering a relationship with other professionals helps create a trusting and client-centric environment that ensures basic business functions, such as confidentiality agreements, co-branding, and logistics, are met, which are critical to long-term success. As a result, you can better serve clients, generate more professional opportunities, become experts in specific fields, create a sounding board ...
DLOM: A Practical Look at a Complex Matter—Part 1
This webinar will cover the theory behind discounts for lack of marketability. We will cover the applicability and the application of using a DLOM on a minority interest as well as on a controlling interest. We will cover the different models and tools that are available for valuators to use when trying to determine the appropriate DLOM.
Calculating But-For Profits
Do you feel like being asked to calculate but-for-profits feels like an engagement in another dimension? Calculating the position the harmed party would have been in “but for” the alleged acts is an advanced skill for appraisers. Join expert and contributing author to The Comprehensive Guide to Economic Damages, Stacey Udell, for a discussion of different strategies to determine net lost profits including the critical step of removing incremental costs that did not occur. Every ...
Patent Infringement Damages: Lost Profits and Royalties
If a patent owner can prove another company or party has made, used or sold a product covered by a patent without its permission, the patent owner is entitled, under 35 U.S.C. Section 284, to receive “damages adequate to compensate for the infringement, but in no event less than a reasonable royalty for the use made of the invention by the infringer, together with interest and costs as fixed by the court.” This program focuses ...
Confident Projections: Knowing & Implementing FP&A Methodology Into Projections
Financial experts use projections in business valuations, economic damages, and a multitude of other scenarios in practice. Understanding the source of data is one step, but assessing the quality of the data along with projections is critical for data quality as well as assessing the sufficiency and accuracy of management’s projections. Learn how to understand and assess the quality of projections and the quality of the professionals providing those inputs by joining Josh Shilts, who ...