Coronavirus fallout impacts the valuation community
The unpredictable coronavirus is disrupting work plans of valuation and accounting firms and impacting the global market.
New report from PKF International on valuation concerns for the UK (and global) cannabis markets
Several estimates place the growing cannabis market at over £30 bn.
10 Special Risk Factors to Consider When Valuing a Dental Practice
Historically, dental practices have had a higher failure rate than the average business because of the special risks these entities face.
BVU News and Trends February 2020
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
Journal of Business Valuation 2018 Edition
From the CBV Institute ...
The ‘big market delusion’ overvalues companies at first
The allure of a big market for an emerging business is hard to resist and causes “irrational exuberance” that initially overprices companies and triggers an inevitable correction.
BV opportunities in the construction industry
Ever since the housing crash, residential and commercial construction has been in a steady state of rebound.
BVU News and Trends January 2020
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
A ‘one-time, historic opportunity’
That’s how Noam Hirschberger describes the burgeoning cannabis industry, which has triggered a critical need for financial and advisory services including valuation and tax planning that will play an important role in the ongoing success of firms in this industry.
HM Treasury releases major EY study of UK financial tech sector
Business valuers concerned about fintech can get a great view of this critical sector from ‘UK FinTech: On the Cutting Edge,’ a just-released study HM Treasury commissioned back in 2014 as part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s goal of making the UK the ‘global capital of FinTech.’
Recession talk driving down small biz valuations
Over half (53%) of business brokers surveyed say a recession is the biggest concern affecting business valuations in the U.S., according to the “Q3 2019 Market Pulse Report.”
Should business valuation be more sensitive to market pricing?
BVWire—UK has been privy to a number of conversations recently with leaders from valuation professional associations around the globe.
BVU News and Trends November 2019
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
Global BVU News and Trends November 2019
Business valuation news from a global perspective.
Back to the Future? Exploding the Income Approach
Seeing the future? Compensating for excessive compensation? The feared levering and unlevering! What to do? Well don’t discount the advice of this expert panel as they work their way through the income approach from top to bottom. Join Bethany Hearn, Brenda Clarke, Kevin Yeanoplos, and Bob Dohmeyer in this entertaining and engaging web workshop. Half this event will focus on the numerator with a curated selection of hot issues such as forecasting, free cash flow ...
Reasonable Certainty for New Business Lost Profit Calculations
New-business lost profit calculations have been a heavily contested topic. Many courts and practitioners rely on historical approaches using historical data of the company itself or a “comparable” company. Join Josh Shilts for a discussion of recent case law and various approaches and learn techniques to validate your lost profit projection. Take these skills and make your report and testimony more defensible.
GDP growth slowed in 3Q 2019 per Economic Outlook Update
The U.S. economy—as indicated by GDP—grew at an annual rate of 1.9% in the third quarter of 2019, which is slower than the downwardly revised rate of 2.0% reported for the second quarter of 2019, according to the 3Q 2019 Economic Outlook Update (EOU).
Cannabis appraiser comments on recent guidance
Last week’s BVWire covered the September 2019 AICPA FVS Eye on Fraud quarterly report, “Marijuana and Forensic Accounting—High Times for CPAs?”
AICPA guidance cautions on cannabis valuations
The American Institute of CPAs details the risks and opportunities for CPAs working in the cannabis industry in the latest “FVS Eye on Fraud” report.
BVU News and Trends October 2019
A monthly roundup of key developments of interest to business valuation experts.
Key Updates and Insights in the U.S. Economy
Having a firm grasp on the current state of the economy is vital to any business valuation engagement. Business valuation experts and many other industry professionals rely on economic indicators as a key point of reference in their work. Economic factors can have a significant impact when valuing businesses, evaluating mergers and acquisitions, and a variety of other financial analyses.
WeWork: Translating a business into a story with numbers
A great example of taking a business model and turning it into a narrative with numbers (something that is critical for a good valuation report) is in a recent blog post by Dr. Aswath Damodaran (New York University Stern School of Business) on the unraveling of the WeWork IPO.
Paper examines value of live streaming for online retail
There is not a tremendous amount of study on the business value of live streaming in the digital economy, but a new paper on this has some interesting observations from the standpoint of online retail.
New economic report from ICAEW
The dour tone of the latest economic report from IAECW won’t surprise business valuers.
Questions to ask amid economic jitters
Whatever your feelings about the recent inverted yield curve or downbeat economic surveys, more business owners may be awake at night worrying about an oncoming recession.