BVR's Guide to Personal v. Enterprise Goodwill, Fifth Edition

August 2012 978-1-62150-005-6 Hardcover, PDF (930 pages)

BVR (editor)

Business Valuation Resources, LLC

BVR's Guide to Personal v. Enterprise Goodwill delivers first-hand knowledge and the most important issues in goodwill with expertise from Mark Dietrich, Ron Seigneur, Kevin Yeanoplos, Jay Fishman, Shannon Pratt, David Wood, Noah Gordon, and more. Save valuable research time with the one resource that every BV professional needs to have in their business valuation library.

Highlights of the guide include:

  • The most current thought-leadership with new and updated articles on personal and enterprise goodwill from leading experts, including:
    • Personal Goodwill: Three Recent Taxpayer Defeats Affirm Existence of a Sometimes Forgotten Asset (by Michael F. Lynch, David J. Beausejour, and David B. Casten)
    • Apportioning Goodwill in Divorce: A Discussion (by Jim Alerding and Andrew Soshnick, Esq.)
  • The most important court cases regarding goodwill, including digests of critical decisions (full text of court cases available with online version)
  • Easy-to-use summary data including a newly updated article with aggregate summary data from the Goodwill Registry on medical and dental practices (published by The Health Care Group).
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Table of Contents

Part I. Where Are We? Definitions and Background

  • Personal Goodwill Versus Enterprise Goodwill
    By Jay Fishman, FASA, CBA
  • Personal Goodwill in Search of a Functional Definition
    By David Wood, CPA/ABV, CVA
  • Overview of Enterprise and Personal Goodwill
    By Dr. Shannon Pratt, CFA, ARM, ABAR, FASA, MCBA, CM&AA
  • Marital Property Law in the United States
    By Jay Fishman, FASA, CBA, Dr. Shannon Pratt, CFA, FASA, MCBA, CM&AA, MCBC, and William Morrison, CPA/ABV
  • The Illusionary Reality of Business Valuations in Marital Dissolutions
    By Jerome W. Karsh, CPA, MSBA
  • An Unwilling Seller - Is There Such a Thing? Fair Market Value, Goodwill, and an Unwilling Seller: Is a Covenant-Not-to-Compete Required?
    By David Wood, CPA/ABV, CVA
  • Goodwill Attributes: Assessing Utility
    By David Wood, CPA/ABV, CVA
  • How to Distinguish Personal Goodwill From Enterprise Goodwill, the Key Person Discount, and Noncompete Agreements
    By Alina Niculita, CFA, MBA, Angelina McKedy, and Kimberly Linebarger, AM

Part II. How Did We Get Here? Case Law

  • Goodwill Valuation in the Courts
    By Noah J. Gordon, Esq.
  • Present Positions on Professional Goodwill: More Focus or Simply More Hocus Pocus?
    By Christopher A. Tiso
  • Personal Goodwill and Business Goodwill-Are They Marital Assets?
    By Alexis Dawicki LePage and Richa Prakash
  • Analyzing a Professional's Personal Goodwill Under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code: Just Whose Asset Is It?
    By John Stockdale, Jr., Esq.
  • Goodwill Hunting in Divorce

Part III. What Do We Do About It? Methodology

  • Professional Practice Valuation
    By Mark Shirley CPA/ABV/CFF, CVA, CFFA, CFE
  • Goodwill: Making Measuring a Little Easier in Divorce Cases
    By Jim Alerding, CPA/ABV, ASA, CVA
  • Separating Personal and Business Goodwill of Operating Companies in Divorce Valuations
    By Rod Burkert, CPA/ABV, CVA
  • An Allocation Model for Distinguishing Enterprise From Personal Goodwill
    By David Wood, CPA/ABV, CVA
  • 'MUM's the Word': A Formal Method to Allocate Blue Sky Value in Divorce
    By David Wood, CPA/ABV, CVA
  • MUM Passes a Daubert Challenge
  • The Goodwill Value of Medical and Dental Practices
    By Mark E. Kropiewnicki, JD, LLM
  • Reasonable Compensation and the Productivity Adjustment: Tips and Techniques for Owner/Employee Compensation Determinations and Adjustments
    By Kevin R. Yeanoplos, CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA and Ronald L. Seigneur, MBA, CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA, CVA
  • A Reasonable Compensation Case Study
    By Kevin R. Yeanoplos, CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA
  • The Interplay of Reasonable Compensation, Personal Goodwill and Enterprise Intangibles
    By Mark O. Dietrich, CPA/ABV
  • Identifying and Measuring Personal Goodwill in a Professional Practice By Mark O. Dietrich, CPA/ABV
  • Identifying and Measuring Personal Goodwill in a Professional Practice-Part 2: Using the Single Period Capitalization Model
    By Mark O. Dietrich, CPA/ABV
  • How Technical and Professional Components of Ancillary Revenue Affect Medical Practice Values
    By Mark Dietrich, CPA/ABV, and Kathie Wilson, CPA/CVA
  • Separating Personal and Business Goodwill
    By Darrell Arne, CPA, ASA, and James Hamill, Ph.D., CPA
  • Personal Goodwill Should Be Considered in All Business Valuations
    By Alan S. Zipp, Esq., CPA/ABV, CBA
  • Valuation of Goodwill Within the Family Law Context
    By Robert F. Reilly
  • Personal Versus Enterprise Goodwill-Four Examples From My Recent Practice
    By Dr. Shannon Pratt, CFA, ARM, ABAR, FASA, MCBA, CM&AA
  • Personal Goodwill: Three Recent Taxpayer Defeats Nevertheless Affirm Existence of a Sometimes Forgotten Asset
    By Michael F. Lynch, David J. Beausejour, and David B. Casten

Part IV. Celebrity Goodwill

  • The Business of Celebrity
    By Jay Fishman FASA, CBA
  • Concepts of Valuation of Celebrity Goodwill as Property
    By the Honorable R. William Riggs, Associate Justice,Oregon Supreme Court, Salem, Ore.
  • The New Dynamic for Celebrity Businesses
    By Jay E. Fishman, FASA, CBA, and Jeremy C. Smith
  • Estimating the Value of Celebrity Goodwill in Matrimonial Cases
    By Lisa H. Tran and Charles A. Wilhoite

Part V. Webinar Transcripts

  • Apportioning Goodwill in Divorce: A Discussion
    By Jim Alerding, CPA/ABV, ASA, CVA and Andrew Soshnick, Esq.
  • Personal/Professional Goodwill vs. Practice Goodwill in Medical Practice Valuations
  • Valuing Professional Practices
  • Calculating Goodwill: What Is Personal and What Is Enterprise?
  • Know Your State's Precedent When Valuing Professional Practices

Part VI. Court Case Abstracts

  • Court Case Summary Table
  • Court Case Abstracts
"BVR's Guide to Personal v. Enterprise Goodwill is an indispensable tool that should be on the shelves of every practitioner." 
-- Dr. Shannon Pratt, CFA, ARM, ABAR, FASA, MCBA, CM&AA