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Shining a Spotlight on Nightclub Valuation
Get ready to jump the line with this lesson on valuing bars and nightclubs with Jason Pierce and Lynton Kotzin. The entertainment venue industry is nuanced, and the pandemic changed the approach for these valuations. Hear specific examples of specialized issues, including deconstructing the revenue streams, matching the risk to the business model, properly applying transaction multiples and other benchmarks, and utilizing lessons learned from court cases. Valuation experts, financial analysts, legal counsel, industry practitioners ...
Something from Nothing? Valuing Synergies in Acquisitions and Litigation
Acquisitions (and the prices paid for them) are often rationalized on the basis that the combined enterprise will be more valuable than the two businesses were separately. For both the business appraiser tasked with quantifying the potential synergy value in a business combination and the management team tasked with achieving those synergies, verifying and quantifying this potential value creates a unique set of challenges. In Something From Nothing? Valuing Synergies in Acquisitions and Litigation, expert ...
Embracing the Hockey Stick: Alternative Approaches to Formulating and Assessing Projections
The question of projections may be one of the most challenging elements of a business or intellectual property appraisal. Most business appraisers will be placed in a position of assessing projections, including projections another appraiser provided. Join Michael Blake for an exploration of the quantitative and empirical methodologies for creating and/or validating projections. As a result of this class, you will gain exposure to potentially new tools to help make your projections more robust and ...
Valuing Winery Losses—Understanding the Process and Addressing Common Issues
Winery losses present unique challenges, and it can be easy to encounter issues when evaluating them. The goal of this session is to provide attendees with enough background on the winery industry and winery losses in order to know the right questions to ask when dealing with them. This program will cover an overview of the typical kinds of winery losses, a high-level walk-through of the winemaking process, the crucial variables when it comes to ...
Private Equity Roll Up of Professional Practices Valuation Considerations
This webinar transcript focuses on private equity roll-up acquisitions of professional practices and the possible effect of these transactions on business valuation.
Alternate Valuation Methods in the Era of COVID-19
COVID-19 has substantially affected the financial and economic characteristics of privately held and publicly traded businesses throughout the U.S. In this presentation, the presenters will address the valuation impact of COVID-19 and the potential distortions that can occur when traditional valuation approaches and methods are mechanically applied. In the current environment, it is important for analysts to think “outside-the-box” when performing business valuations with valuation dates occurring during the first and second quarter of 2020.
Appraisal Review: Common Areas of Critique and Risk in Litigation
In this presentation, we will address subjective valuation inputs and assumptions that require analyst discretion. Traditionally, these are the most contested inputs in litigation. Therefore, a strong understanding of the rationale behind these inputs is critical for successful analysis. Our presentation will include but is not limited to, a discussion of the following: (1) common areas of critique in the context of appraisal review; (2) examples of such subjective inputs and common rebuttal responses; and ...
Estate and Gift Tax, Business Valuation and the IRS—What’s Next and What you Need to Know
During this session Michael Gregory will discuss the impact on business valuation for estate and gift tax reporting purposes. Mike will explore the status of the IRS, what it intends to do, what it is likely to do, and the current stance on several technical issues. You'll also gain practical advice on how to avoid an IRS audit and recommendations for responding to an audit. You will hear real-world examples based on the experience of ...
Divorce Workshop Highlights
Divorce Workshop Highlights Teleconference Handbook December 17, 2008 Moderator: Stuart Weiss, CPA/ABV Panelists: Carole Gailor, JD Please note: This Handbook does not qualify for self study CPE credits. Copyright © 2009 Business Valuation Resourc ...
Valuation and the IRS: Update for 2019
What are the implications of the government shut down on the IRS’s ability to audit business valuation returns in 2019? What steps should you take if your appraisal is audited by the IRS? In this must-attend webinar, expert Michael Gregory will answer these questions and cover key areas such as the top three business valuation appraisal audit areas by the IRS. Attendees will come away with recommendations on how to work with the IRS given ...
The ASA/USC Fair Value Conference: A BVR Live Webcast
BVR is pleased to partner with the American Society of Appraisers and the University of Southern California to present a live webcast of the 13th Annual Fair Value Conference at KPMG in Los Angeles. The conference agenda will feature presentations from nationally recognized speakers who are profession leaders, covering a range of fair value measurement and valuation topics, as well as other current and future expected trends regarding the FASB, SEC, and international accounting standards.
Valuing Banks: Day 1 Fundamentals
According to the FDIC, 94% of all U.S. commercial banks, or 4,800, are “community banks.” Community banks are closely held, have shareholders’ equity ranging from $5 million to $100 million, and have approximately 150 employees, on average. Due to unique regulatory and operating factors, valuation of a commercial bank requires industry-specific insights and knowledge. Join expert Keith Sellers for insight into all aspects of the valuation of U.S. commercial banks, focusing on “community banks. Day ...
Valuing Early-Stage Companies
With small, early revenue streams; often inexperienced management teams; unproven business and product concepts; uncertain capital sources; and—most often—many intangible assets, early-stage companies can be a perplexing valuation assignment, at best. Despite these numerous challenges, early-stage company valuations have increasingly become a ubiquitous subject of business valuation. In "Early-Stage Company Valuation," expert appraiser Mike Pellegrino joins BVR to discuss how both these challenges and other, unforeseen obstacles are changing early-stage valuation and what new obstacles ...
Business Valuation Issues in Bankruptcy
In Business Valuation Issues in Bankruptcy, BVR welcomes expert appraisers Jeff Risius and Jesse Ultz for an in-depth examination of the opportunities and challenges the bankruptcy process poses. While distressed and bankrupt businesses have made headlines recently, their reorganization and, at times, resurrection have owed a great deal to appraisers working on such issues as asset/collateral valuation matters, shareholder value disputes within the process, and fairness issues related to the valuation of securities. In their ...
The Overlap of Company-Specific Risk and the Size Premium
As noted in the June 8 edition of BVWire #8482;, recent work by Ted Israel and James Harrington have posited that the size premium is alive and well and that some company-specific risk measures are being double counted as they are already embedded in the subject company's earnings stream. Says Israel: "[W]e're spending too much time obsessing over the denominator [the discount rate] and ignoring the effects on the numerator [earnings]." On August 25, BVR welcomes ...
Application of the Cost Approach to Valuing Identifiable Intangible Assets
Join Robert Reilly and Nathan Novak for this engaging webinar on the common types of intangible assets, the most common reasons to value intangible assets, and the generally accepted intangible asset valuation approaches.With a focus on the cost approach methods to value intangible assets, particularly contributory intangible assets, this program will describe the specific procedures for quantifying each of the intangible asset cost component and for identifying and measuring each of the intangible asset obsolescence ...
BVLaw Case Update: Kress, Vinoskey plus three more cases that dominated 2019
Join Jim Alerding, a veteran valuator, and Sylvia Golden, BVR’s legal editor, for a discussion of five of the most consequential valuation and damages cases of 2019. This selection of state and federal cases includes the year’s tax decisions that have reframed the conversation on tax affecting, a statutory appraisal case illustrating the Delaware Court of Chancery’s current approach to determining fair value, an ESOP trial court decision that solidifies the DOL’s litigation success, and ...
Emerging Issues in Cannabis and Hemp/CBD: Buckle Up as it is Just Getting Interesting!
Talk about a growing industry. As legalization spreads across the country, more valuation professionals are focusing on emerging and evolving issues in cannabis and hemp. If you are a practitioner or an advisor who is involved in the appraisal and analysis of business interests in both the legal, regulated cannabis sector and in agricultural hemp and cannabinoids, then don’t pass on this webinar. Recent developments in state and federal legislation will be covered as will ...
Power Panel: Festivus Edition
In the final Power Panel of 2021, join experts Jay Fishman, Roger Grabowski, and Chris Mercer for this “Festivus”-themed conversation. What is Festivus? It is a light-hearted reference to the “airing of grievances” with a valuation twist. Our all-star lineup will discuss practices and thought processes within valuation that need a reexamining along with suggestions of how the profession can move forward. As usual, bring your questions and comments, and we welcome you to submit ...
A Difference of Opinions—Using the Right Tools for the Market Approach
This course will be a hands-on exercise in valuing a small owner-operated business using the market approach. Two appraisers will walk through the valuation of a business with $5 million to $10 million in revenue using the same fundamental financial information but different valuation tools. The results are meant to highlight the differences in value based on a selected market approach and the use of different databases. The training will use multiples derived from private ...
Data as a Commercial Asset: Valuation Techniques and Analytical Insights (A BVR Workshop)
The importance of data as a commercial asset means that the financial value of data is becoming difficult to ignore. Increasingly, credible methodologies for data valuation will have to be performed for commercial litigation, financial reporting, tax reporting, and even transaction support. Mike Blake will walk through data valuation methodologies as well as analytical points that help distinguish the relative values of different data sets. Attendees will gain a high level of knowledge of data ...
How to Measure Anything: Keynote Quarterly
Measurement is a key concept in valuation, but many business components are inherently difficult to measure. Join Doug Hubbard, the author of one of the best-selling business statistics books of all time, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business, for this must-attend webinar. He will explain why nothing that matters to you or your organization is truly immeasurable. In addition, he will cover three reasons why anything was ever believed to ...
Cannabis and Hemp: Valuation and Industry Update
As a high growth industry, cannabis and hemp business valuations and damages assessments are in demand. But, in this highly regulated industry, many “must know” considerations impact these engagements. Join experts Ron Seigneur and Ryan Cram for a discussion of the trends and opportunities facing these dynamic industry segments. Learn about the continuing regulatory and tax issues that must be considered and get an update on M&A and investment activity that are powering values. Ron ...
Mock IRS Audit: Real World Valuation Examples on Working With the IRS (A BVR Web Workshop)
During this session Mike Gregory and Bryant Lancaster will provide you with a real-world mock estate IRS audit example based on a case the two worked on together. After a couple of real-world “war stories” and an initial introduction to IRS processes and procedures to help you understand the mock audit, Mike and Bryant will play the roles of the IRS business valuer and the taxpayer’s business valuer while narrating the process to help you ...
Valuing Banks: Day 2 Case Study
According to the FDIC, 94% of all U.S. commercial banks, or 4,800, are “community banks.” Community banks are closely held, have shareholders’ equity ranging from $5 million to $100 million, and have approximately 150 employees, on average. Due to unique regulatory and operating factors, valuation of a commercial bank requires industry-specific insights and knowledge. Join expert Keith Sellers for insight into all aspects of the valuation of U.S. commercial banks, focusing on “community banks. Day ...