Global BV News and Trends September 2022
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Global BV News and Trends August 2022
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Global BV News: New edition released of Business Analysis and Valuation: IFRS
Cengage has released the 6th edition of Business Analysis and Valuation: IFRS Edition in the educational market.
Global BVU News and Trends March 2021
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
A free model for business valuers to quantify operating value for businesses with real property holdings
Comparability can be a difficult standard when valuing businesses with significant real estate assets used as part of their operating company assets.
Global intangible asset value rebounds to hit all-time high
Business valuers recognise that intangibles present individual ‘facts and circumstances’ challenges. And IFRS 3, even without the proposed amortisation changes, does not fully report the current value of acquired or created intangibles (increasing the operational value of intangibles is generally a strategic goal).
BVU News and Trends April 2020
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
Global BVU News and Trends April 2020
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Global BV News: New edition of book on valuation under IFRS
The third edition of Company Valuation Under IFRS addresses the implications for analysis, modelling, and valuation of key aspects of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and it describes the key differences between IFRS and U.S. GAAP treatments and their implications for the analysis.
New lease rules jolt stock returns
Stock valuations took a one-time shock in the first quarter of 2019, possibly because of the new lease accounting standards from the Financial Accounting Standards Board, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal.
Global BVU News and Trends December 2019
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Global BVU News and Trends November 2019
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Further responses from BVWire—UK’s analysis of the ‘headwind’ effect of IFRS 16
BVWire—UK received a number of responses to the last issue’s coverage of a new study that suggests a possible reduction in forecasted profits as companies adapt IFRS 16.
Do business valuers need to reduce their profit forecasts due to an IFRS 16 ‘headwind’?
IFRS 16, now in effect, has been called many things, and an excellent new analysis by The Footnotes Analyst supports a new conclusion: Lease-heavy companies may increasingly see their profits suffer as they comply, particularly if lease liabilities are inflation-linked.
New lease accounting standards create overlooked challenges for business valuation professionals
Most of the analysis of the IASB’s IFRS 16 rule on lease accounting, which went into effect in January 2019, has been from the audit and accounting side.
Global BV News: Two reports examine valuation impact of new IFRS 16 lease accounting
Equity values should remain unchanged, but enterprise values increase under IFRS 16 lease accounting rules, which went into effect Jan. 1, 2019, for many companies, according to two new reports from KPMG and Deloitte.
IPEV Board updates guidelines for private capital valuations
The International Private Equity and Venture Capital Valuation (IPEV) Board’s current update reflects valuation guidance from IFRS 13, ASC Topic 820 (US GAAP), and other inputs and is available here.
Hayler proposes pretax ‘shorthand’ for some financial reporting valuations
Richard Hayler (Deloitte), fellow of the ICAEW, offers a ‘formula for finite life project cashflows’ that modifies earlier models to achieve ‘a more realistic assumption set.’
BVU News and Trends June 2018
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
Firms unprepared for new lease accounting
Only one in five finance, accounting, and other professionals say their companies are “extremely” or “very” prepared to comply with the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) respective new lease accounting standards, according to a recent poll from the Deloitte Center for Controllership.
