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Business Valuations
for SBA Lending Programs Despite the pandemic, the number of small businesses started continues to increase. This article discusses the various Small more ...
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Credit Card Rewards in Business Valuation for Divorce
Operating v. Non-Operating Assets With the growth of the digital economy, new types of assets have emerged that may be subject to property division in more ...
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Analyst Considerations in the Valuation
of a Tax Loss Target Company Acquisition This article summarizes the factors that acquirers—and their valuation and other financial advisers—should co more ...
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Creators Get a New Weapon to Protect Copyrights
A New Online Board to Punish Infringers If you are a creative person, copyright protection is important. It gives you the right to prevent others from more ...
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StraightTalk Webinar Series—March 2021
COVID-19 and Business Valuation—One Year Later: What Worked and What Didn’t On March 2, 2021, Jim Hitchner, Managing Member of Valuation Products and 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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How Open Source Research Can Advance Your Business Intelligence Work
Employing Open Source Data, OSINT, and SOCMINT in the Due Diligence Phase Today’s accountants specialize in document management, research, money laund more ...
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Using International Economic Time Series Data in Determining Lost Profits
Forensic engagements that involve determining lost profits or other economic damages often require a “time series” of economic and market data. When t more ...
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The Intersection of Advocacy and Financial Forensics
The Role of the Expert in 21st Century Dispute Resolution—A Recovering Judge’s Perspective As technology evolves, the role of the expert and the inter more ...
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Money Laundering
In More Ways Than One It seems every few months we read about a financial institution involved in a money laundering scandal. The bank typically agree 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 ...
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March 2021
These Drivers Quantify the Time and Money You Get from Your Practice Time and money. These are two things we generally want more of. Because they are more ...
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How Fees Help Determine Client Perceptions of Value
Confessions of the Pricing Man, How Price Affects Everything Financial experts often struggle with setting fees for their own services and expertise. more ...
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10 Social Networking Tactics I Would Use to Build My BVFLS Practice
If I Were Starting Today Business valuation and financial litigation services (BVFLS) practitioners—since the COVID-19 disruption—have embraced the us more ...
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64 Ways to Increase and Enhance
the Value of a Business Buyers look at earnings as a primary driver of value. There are many other factors such as strategic value, competitive positi more ...
Business Valuations
for SBA Lending Programs Despite the pandemic, the number of small businesses started continues to increase. This article discusses the various Small Business Administration (SBA) programs and the value of serving these lenders. “Success is a full-time job.” Grant Cardone Any entrepreneur or a small business 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 ...
Risk and Fraud
in the Cryptocurrency Economy Although cryptocurrency and blockchain technology create an environment that can help combat fraud within their systems, their introduction into the global economy has opened numerous doors for nefarious activity. This article provides an overview of what is cryptocurrency, block 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 ...
What is Behind the Soaring Popularity of Healthcare SPACs?
An Alternative to the IPO The popularity of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) has been soaring in recent years. There are 35 times as many SPACs operating in 2020 as in 2010, and these companies seem poised for greater exponential growth in the future. While many experts are predicting a continued more ...
Stop, Collaborate, and Listen
Creative Settlement Strategies for Real Property Damages In challenging financial and operational times, parties need more creative tools than ever before to reach settlement and bring swift resolution before issues can become protracted litigation. Particularly in the realm of real estate and environmental d 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 ...
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), we may have a problem. Because on the one hand, they may be telling us the truth (or their truth). But on the other hand, we think we are worth it. This article 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 ...
