Two valuable free video resources available for BVWire—UK readers
Michael Badham, executive director of the International Institute for Business Valuation (iiBV) alerted BVWire—UK that their panel discussion on valuing financial instruments has become their single most popular program, reaching 10,000 views last week.
Latest Resources to Help Improve the Valuation of Financial Instruments
A recap of recent resources that have emerged, including some new credentialing, that are designed to improve this area of practice. This is the valuation profession’s response to the concerns of financial regulators and others around the world about the quality and consistency of financial instrument valuations.
Shares and Assets Valuation Fiscal Forum requests agenda topics for February meeting
The next SAV Fiscal Forum will be held on Tuesday, 25 February 2020, commencing at 1 p.m.
Global BVU News and Trends October 2019
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
New resources amass regarding valuing financial instruments
The valuation profession is responding to the concerns by financial regulators and others around the world about the quality and consistency of financial instrument valuations.
Two new resources discuss the impact of business valuation for ‘complex’ financial instruments
In collaboration with RICS and IVSC, the iiBV have released their Valuing Financial Instruments video webinar earlier this month.
Deloitte sells software assets to Moody’s, continuing trend
The top half-dozen firms handle a large portion of business valuation work in the UK, so anyone interested in the profession might note with interest the trend for the larger audit firms to provide software as well as services.
Deriving the Black Scholes Option Pricing Equation
In the valuation profession, the Black-Scholes option pricing model (BSOPM) is one of the most often used, yet least understood, valuation models. In this session, Gary Schurman will derive the BSOPM equation in an intuitive, albeit unconventional, way. Gain confidence in finding and eliminating arbitrage, understanding risk-neutral probabilities, and working in continuous or discrete time. Attend for advanced and technical training on one of valuation’s most popular models.
Global BV News: Reminder: Comments due on financial instruments standards
Until now, there has been no effective set of international valuation practice standards for financial instruments that has been generally adopted, according to the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC).
Global BV News: Comments wanted on standards for financial instruments
Until now, no effective set of international valuation practice standards for financial instruments has been generally adopted, according to the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC).
First meeting in international financial instruments valuation board held in London
Various efforts to set standards for the valuation of financial instruments have been attempted, but ‘investors, regulators, chartered accountants, and the banks are unified since the last financial crisis,’ says Gavin Francis, HSBC’s chief accounting officer in London and past technical director of the IASB.
Global BVU News and Trends February 2019
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
BVU News and Trends February 2019
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
Thinking of doing complex financial valuations?
Want to move from standard business appraisals to valuations of derivatives, guarantees, exotics, complex securities, and the like?
Global BV News: Chair named for financial instruments board
Gavin Francis, group chief accounting officer at HSBC, has been appointed chair of a new board tasked with advancing global standards for financial instrument valuation.
BVU News and Trends December 2018
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
AICPA releases working draft on credit losses
The AICPA’s Financial Reporting Executive Committee has released for public comment a working draft on accounting issues associated with the implementation of FASB Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-13, “Financial Instruments—Credit Losses” (issued in June 2016), which “provides a new current expected credit loss (CECL) model to measure impairment for financial assets (and instruments) measured at amortized cost.”
AICPA unveils new CVFI credential for financial instruments
Comments are due Sept. 26, 2017, on an exposure draft of a “disclosure framework” that establishes parameters of documentation requirements for the Certified in Valuation of Financial Instruments (CVFI) credential.