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 ...
Forecasting: Removing Rose Colored Glasses
Projections are commonly relied on for business valuations, lost profits analyses, reorganization plans, and a host of other projects within litigation. Using forensic accounting analysis, the speaker will address “rose-colored” projections and how to work with them. Expert Josh Shilts will discuss how to increase confidence levels of projections using macro and micro market data along with statistical analysis.
CPE events
The Impact of COVID-19 on Restructuring, Insolvency & Impairment. April 29, 10:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. PT/1:00 p.m.-2:40 p.m. ET. Featuring: Craig Jacobson (GlassRatner), Richard Peil (GlassRatner), and Dan Korcyk (GlassRatner).
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Fair Value Measurements Amid the COVID-19 Crisis. July 29, 10:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. PT/1:00 p.m.-2:40 p.m. ET. Featuring: Brad Taylor (Marcum) and Nicholas Parseghian (Marcum). Part of BVR’s Special Series on Fair Value.
Beware of Distortions of Market Multiples During a Recession
Valuation multiples are distorted during times of recession and high market volatility, such as the period from 2008 through 2011. To demonstrate this, I developed a mini case study based on an actual valuation we performed a couple of years ago. The subj ...
Subsequent Events
The experts discuss standards for managing subsequent events, judicial precedents and guideline cases, the practicality of solutions to subsequent event problems, and the dangers of "known, knowable, and foreseeable." This is a must for any appraiser whose valuation report or testimony could be skewed by events after the fact.
Subsequent Events: Dealing With the Unknown and Unforeseeable
Events subsequent to the valuation date are seldom known, knowable, or foreseeable—particularly recently. As appraisers continue to sift through the fallout of recent economic turmoil, the consideration of subsequent events is becoming ever more important when proving and defending a sound conclusion of value. In Subsequent Events: Dealing With the Unknown and Unforeseeable, two of the valuation communities best minds, Jay Fishman and Chris Mercer, will join one of the best in tax litigation, Chuck Rettig ...
Companies in Distress: Valuing the Impaired and Currently Unprofitable
As benchmarks, indicators, and pundits show that the end of recent economic woes are in sight, the fall-out and clean up of recent trouble continue across the economy. Nowhere is this more true than in the arena of business valuation, where the volume impaired and distressed business appraisals continue to escalate. Though the valuation of an unprofitable business is a challenge in its own right, it's only exacerbated by the recent economic environment.
A View From the UK on the Cost Approach Amid the Current Crisis
The Cinderella of business valuation approaches is likely to make it to the ball when we start to count the economic cost of the present crisis.
BizMiner launches free help for your small-biz clients
BizMiner, a provider of industry and geographic data business valuers use, has launched a public service called the LOOK UP! Initiative.
Shares and Assets Valuation’s Thomas warns valuers to ‘please, do a sense check’
HMRC’s Shares and Assets Valuation (SAV), whose remit is the valuation of all shares and nonland assets for tax purposes, hosted popular Fiscal Forum meetings until 2018, but, for reasons of internal change and then COVID-19, business valuers have not had the opportunity to hear directly from the agency since then.
Valuing Distressed and Impaired Companies in the Time of Coronavirus
The Coronavirus Pandemic has created perhaps the most unusual economic downturn at least in our lifetimes and likely in the past 100 years. For Americans, the Pandemic stopped in its tracks one of the most explosive economic growth and expansion in many years, if ever. Overnight almost, businesses that were economically sound and growing were turned into distressed and impaired businesses. Jim Alerding will analyze the valuation perspective needed to value a distressed or impaired ...
Deloitte releases surprisingly optimistic survey of UK CFOs
Deloitte’s latest CFO survey for Q4 2020 should provide an emotional lift for all business leaders and valuers—even though the survey was conducted the week before the new COVID-19 restrictions were announced on 19 December and the Brexit deal on 24 December.
Journal of Business Valuation 2021 Edition
From the CBV Institute ...
Amid Market Data Volatility, the Best Option Is a More Rigorous DCF
A panel of global valuation experts who conducted a recent webinar co-sponsored by RICS, and also NACVA, the ASA, GACVA, and CBVI gives their comments.
Valuing Telehealth Services
Join Todd Zigrang and Jessica L. Bailey-Wheaton for a discussion of the valuation of telehealth services in the healthcare industry. Learn the current telehealth trends and the role of telehealth in the healthcare industry. Gain an understanding of the types of telehealth services typically provided, such as clinical services, management services, and the provision of technology, and how these services may vary by healthcare industry subsector. Get expert guidance on typical valuation approaches as they ...
Global BVU News and Trends May 2020
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Will COVID-19 open up the PIPES market in the UK? Baker MacKenzie say yes.
Private investments in public equities (PIPES) are a little-used financing alternative in the UK, but a new article by Baker MacKenzie London partners Nick Bryans and James Thompson in this month’s International Financial Law Review (IFLR) suggests that need may outweigh the huge cultural and regulatory hurdles.
COVID-19 to Trigger More Requests for ‘Risky’ Calculation Reports, Expert Says
It’s a settled matter about whether calculation reports “can” be used, but “should” they be used is another issue. Veteran valuation expert Kevin Yeanoplos (Brueggeman and Johnson Yeanoplos PC) explores this concern in a session at the recent BVFLS conference sponsored by the Virginia Society of CPAs (VSCPA).
Will HMRC enforce its new tools in post-COVID-19 insolvencies?
Since 1 December 2020, HMRC has regained its status as a preferential creditor. Valuation experts working with distressed businesses and insolvencies will need to assess HMRC’s reinstated role carefully, since no one is entirely clear yet on how Treasury intend to respond once winding-up restrictions end or whether delayed tax payment agreements are enforced.
CPE events
Healthcare Valuation Town Hall: Four Expert Panel on COVID-19 Impacts and Beyond, June 24, 10:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. PT/1:00 p.m.-2:40 p.m. ET. Featuring: Jerry Chang (Ankura), W. James Lloyd (PYA), Mark Dietrich (Mark O. Dietrich CPA, PC), and Todd Sorensen (VMG Health).
CPE events
Healthcare Valuation Town Hall: Four Expert Panel on COVID-19 Impacts and Beyond. June 24, 10:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. PT/1:00 p.m.-2:40 p.m. ET. Featuring: Jerry Chang (Ankura), W. James Lloyd (PYA), Mark Dietrich (Mark O. Dietrich CPA, PC), and Todd Sorensen (VMG Health).
How Did the Pandemic Impact EBITDA Multiples in 2020? Explore a 12-Month Snapshot in the DealStats Value Index
With the COVID-19 pandemic putting a stranglehold on the U.S. economy for most of 2020 and causing an unprecedented economic impact on small businesses, DealStats Value Index (DVI) captured the 12-month snapshot on how earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) multiples have trended.
Adjusting Risk Free Rates Is Not the Best Answer
Are the traditional discounts developed by appraisers too low in this era of the Great Recession? Are they producing values that are too high as a result? Many appraisers have declared that the current low 20-year bond rates are an aberration and in nee ...
Valuation Issues in the Coming Wave of Goodwill and Asset Impairments
Widespread stock price declines and recessionary conditions will significantly affect corporate valuation and financial reporting of goodwill and long-term assets. The S&P 500 index, which represents a broad cross-section of the economy, declined by about ...