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Valuation Guidelines for Mineral and Renewable Interests
A Data Analytics Approach The valuation of minerals and renewables falls outside the usual guidelines of real property appraisal, where real property more ...
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Comparing Apples (Enterprise Value) to Oranges (Equity Value) to Pears …?
Communicating Value “Comparing apples to oranges” refers to contrasting two or more items that are similar, but that have important differences. While more ...
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Adding Compensation Consulting to Your Practice
Diversify the Revenue Sources Valuation consultants usually have training and experience with the process of normalizing owner compensation. They may more ...
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Should the Market Approach be Excluded
When Guideline Companies are Not Very Good? When given a choice, do you prefer to minimize errors of commission or omission? The answer will likely in more ...
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Considerations in Valuation of SPAC Sponsor’s Equity
Probability and Scenario Analysis In this article, the author explores considerations in valuing SPAC founders’ equity for these purposes. Marcum LLP more ...
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Technology and the Birth of Digital Forensics
The Evolution of Digital Forensics and Growth of the Industry The rapid growth of technology has resulted in the computer age, which has given rise to more ...
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What is Cryptocurrency?
How Does it Work? Everyone seems to be talking about cryptocurrency these days, but many are unsure how to define it and fewer still, know exactly how more ...
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Elder Fraud
Risks in a Post Pandemic Environment The pandemic placed many individuals into an environment where they had to rely on technology to conduct daily li more ...
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How to Use a General Ledger to Find (and Stop) Fraud
Spotting Internal Fraud Schemes To identify whether an organization is vulnerable or has been a victim of fraudulent behavior, it is critical to spot more ...
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Risk and Fraud
in the Cryptocurrency Economy Although cryptocurrency and blockchain technology create an environment that can help combat fraud within their systems, more ...
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Adding Compensation Consulting to Your Practice
Diversify the Revenue Sources Valuation consultants usually have training and experience with the process of normalizing owner compensation. They may more ...
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The Business I Value Most is Mine
You Should Feel the Same Way There is a great expression that is used as advertising in our industry: the business we value most is yours. (It is like more ...
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Entrepreneurial Operating Systems® (EOS®)
Key Components How did so many business owners succeed in this current crisis? How did some business owners even thrive during the most challenging ye more ...
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May 2021
How to Make Pricing Your Competitive Advantage This article is a follow up to the author’s April 2021 QuickRead article: “Here is What Prospects Belie more ...
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April 2021
What Prospects Believe About Our Pricing is What We Believe About Our Pricing When prospects say, “You’re too expensive” (and some inevitably will), w more ...
Valuation Guidelines for Mineral and Renewable Interests
A Data Analytics Approach The valuation of minerals and renewables falls outside the usual guidelines of real property appraisal, where real property broadly defined includes land, everything permanently attached to it, at, above, and below the earth’s surface and all the interests, benefits, and rights inher more ...
Accounting for COVID-19 in Valuation
The Bankruptcy Court Weighs-in In Re: Body Transit, Inc. The Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania In re: Body Transit, Inc. addressed how COVID-19 impacts valuations. On August 7, 2020, the Court heard and decided the case. This case proceeded under the Small Business Reorganization Act (S more ...
Some Trends
Expert Witness Industry Revenues IBISWorld, an economic and industry source used by valuation and damages professionals, issues an economic report on the expert witness industry. In this article, Michael Pakter, an expert, discusses industry revenue trends—which are mixed—and also how that may affect current more ...
Technology and the Birth of Digital Forensics
The Evolution of Digital Forensics and Growth of the Industry The rapid growth of technology has resulted in the computer age, which has given rise to cybercrimes. Savvy criminals today use devices such as tablets, computers, smartphones, and cloud storage in the planning and commission of cybercrimes, whethe more ...
Small Business Valuations
Using Forensic Accounting Valuing the small business is how most valuators earn their living. These small businesses pose as much issues to valuation professionals as they do for tax, accounting, and legal professionals by providing these entities with advice. The issues are wide-ranging, and the purpose of t more ...
Are Disappointing Healthcare PE Deals a Sign to Come?
Analysis of Deal Stats Pre- and Post-COVID-19 This article will review PE activity generally, and in the healthcare industry, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and discuss what is expected for the remainder of 2021, as the economy evolves in response to a post-pandemic America. The involvement of private equity ( more ...
Assessing Lost Profits
After the COVID-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic put a strain on the U.S. and global economies as well as individual lives throughout the world. As much as most people would like to put 2020 behind us, experts will have to continue to review financial returns from 2020 in the historical data for businesses c more ...
Delaware Chancellor Rejects “Apples-to-Oranges” Damages Analysis
Dieckman v. Regency GP LP et al. This article discusses Dieckman v. Regency GP, LP, a recent Delaware Chancery Court decision. It is a reminder for valuation professionals providing damages testimony to be wary when mixing the use of the market approach and income approach when estimating damages in situation more ...
Adding Compensation Consulting to Your Practice
Diversify the Revenue Sources Valuation consultants usually have training and experience with the process of normalizing owner compensation. They may also have access to compensation comparability data, which is a collection of actual amounts paid by other employers which can be sorted. Therefore, valuation s more ...
Tax/Personal Financial Planning
Avoid Traps with a Timely Appraisal New basis-consistency requirements make defensible valuations of inherited property even more important. Informed taxpayers are aware that only the wealthiest individuals should have concerns about the federal estate and gift tax, for gifts given and decedents dying in 2018 more ...
