Three special BVR workshops in May: energy, estate/gift, and intangibles
The month of May will see BVR webcast three special events.
Veteran Valuers Warn of This Fallout From COVID-19
Being cooped up because of the pandemic has created a potential problem, say experienced valuers, if appraisers continue to do management interviews and company tours virtually instead of in person.
Preview: Valuing Fractional Interests in Real Estate 2.0
In Valuing Fractional Interests in Real Estate 2.0, with a wealth of practical knowledge, Dennis Webb has created a complete resource for anyone looking to apply the income approach better in their next valuation. The following excerpt comes from the book’s first chapter, "Fractional Interests and Valuation."
BVRPro adds to its ASA BV Review archive
Subscribers to the BVResearch Pro platform can access issues of Business Valuation Review going back to 1982, and the Fall 2021 issue has just been added to the archive.
Court addresses use of asset approach for a going concern
Many valuation experts rarely (or never) use the asset approach for an operating business.
Houlihan Lokey and ELFA issue private debt valuation guide
Houlihan Lokey and the European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) have published a report as part of ELFA’s Diligence Series called Technical Guide for Valuation of Private Debt Investments.
Preview: Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2022
The year 2021 was defined by unexpected economic events; from the GameStop Rebellion to changes in how goodwill cases are handled in Florida, 2021 certainly was an interesting time to be in the valuation profession.
Valuing Fractional Interests in Real Estate 2.0
January 2022 Hardcover (485 pages)
Dennis A Webb
Milonguero Press
This book is the first complete, multidisciplinary work that fully integrates business valuation and real property appraisal. Webb addresses the long-standing struggle with fractional interests in real property, specifically because the practice lies squarely between business valuation and real property appraisal and draws from both professions and bodies of knowledge, which creates formidable challenges for all stakeholders. Webb has pulled off a feat that rarely occurs in practice: complete integration with the two fields. His book offers two practical, eye-opening case studies that represent a significant advance in valuation methodology and professional cooperation.
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Valuers Converge (in Person!) at the ASA International Conference
This is a recap of some sessions covering small promissory notes, shareholder disputes, sports businesses, valuing defensive patents, IRS news, competing appraisals, and more. Over 600 valuation experts from all disciplines came together for the American Society of Appraisers’ International Conference in Las Vegas, October 24-26. This was a hybrid event, and many of the attendees were on-site.
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.
Damodaran on the CEO mismatch
Assessing management is a key part of the valuation analysis of a subject company.
BV luminaries celebrate Festivus
What are the bugaboos of leading BV practitioners? For Roger Grabowski (Duff & Phelps/Kroll), it’s errors he sees in estimating long-term growth rates—he contends that analysts should not be using long-term real GDP growth plus expected inflation.
What’s your BV beef? Join the BV Festivus tomorrow, December 9!
In the final episode of BVR’s Power Panel for 2021, a lineup of legendary experts will have a Festivus-themed conversation—with a BV twist.
Recap of the VSCPA Forensic and Valuation Virtual Conference
Topics at the Virginia CPAs’ event included COVID-19, the use of statistics for lost profits, key federal tax cases, personal goodwill, forensics, reasonable compensation, and cybercrime.
Economy, Cannabis, Physician Pay, SPACs, and Expert Testimony Among the Hot Topics at the NJCPA BV Conference
Key takeaways from the 2021 New Jersey CPA Society’s Business Valuation and Litigation Services Conference are included.
Up Your Industry Analysis: How Vertical IQ Can Improve Your Valuation Report (FREE WEBINAR)
Join the co-founder and CEO of Vertical IQ, Bobby Martin, who will share how industry intelligence can help you have more value-added discussions with the business owners you advise along with valuation expert Jim Ewart. By leveraging industry-specific content in the business valuation process, you will increase new client percentages and strengthen existing relationships. Learn the best practices for using industry intelligence to go beyond the basic requirements of business valuations.
Warning to Business Valuers Looking to Use New ESG Ratings
A hot topic today is environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors and how to reflect the impact of these factors in business valuations and financial reporting. Data are starting to emerge to help quantify the impact of ESG—but analysts need to be careful in using these data.
COVID-19 and BV: Hitchner gives an update
In the opening session of the Virginia Society of CPAs’ Forensic and Valuation Services Virtual Conference, James Hitchner (Valuation Products and Services) gave a current perspective about the many challenges the pandemic has presented for business valuations.
Latest issue of the ASA BVReview now in BVRPro
The BVResearch Pro platform contains the full archive of BVReview (going back to 1982!), the business valuation journal of the American Society of Appraisers.
Introducing BVR's Benchmarking Intangibles Guide
Valuing intangible business assets can be overwhelming at times. Between the different approaches and the myriad factors that go into each, it’s easy to miss a step. BVR’s recently released third edition of Benchmarking Identifiable Intangibles and Their Useful Lives in Business Combinations seeks to provide context to this dizzying array of factors with a look at the different approaches for valuing intangible assets—as well as empirical data from actual valuations.
Attrition Analysis, Midperiod Convention and Customer Retirement Forecasts
Attrition analysis is widely used by valuation professionals as a recognized method to forecast customer population retirement behavior. With attrition analysis, an expected customer population retirement profile is developed through the study of historical customer retirement activity and applied to the customer population when valuing customer relationship intangible assets. As a frequent reviewer of customer relationship valuations, valuation practitioners regularly develop an attrition analysis founded on a midperiod retirement convention but then apply an end ...
Book Review: Business Valuation: An Integrated Theory (BVIT)
Today, there are many fine business valuation textbooks available to the professional business appraiser for guidance and support. The purpose of these publications is to equip the readers with the methodology, techniques and models necessary to produce a credible valuation opinion and report.
When Averaging Multiples, the Arithmetic Mean Is Inferior to the Harmonic Mean
This article posits that using the arithmetic mean to average multiples is mathematically inferior. A multiple is an inverted ratio with price in the numerator. The harmonic mean is a statistically sound method for averaging inverted ratios. It should be used as a measure of central tendency for multiples, along with the median. Empirically, the harmonic mean and the median of a set of multiples are usually similar. Because the harmonic mean can be overly ...
Understanding Business Valuation - 6th Edition
February 2022 Hardcover, PDF
Gary Trugman
Business Valuation Resources, LLC
Damodaran’s strong feelings about ESG
A year ago, Professor Aswath Damodaran (New York University Stern School of Business) called it “the most overhyped, oversold concept in the history of business.”