In First Month of 2025 In the first month of 2025, hospital revenue and expenses both increased, balancing each other out and resulting in continued steady financial performance for hospitals, according to Kaufman Hall’s January 2025 National Hospital Flash Report. This article reviews the report and the current state of hospital operations. In the first month of 2025, hospital revenue and expenses both inc ...

Forecasting Errors One of the common pitfalls in applying the income approach is committing forecasting errors. To understand the impact of this error, this article discusses the importance of the income approach in business valuations and areas that require careful evaluation. One of the common pitfalls in applying the income approach is committing forecasting errors. To understand the impact of this error ...

Gemini 2.5 Pro EXP Shines and Your Shortcut to Staying Current Just like I predicted in my last post, the AI chatbot race is heating up, with models leapfrogging each other constantly! This time, Google's new Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental made a splash, and based on my own quick test, it is impressively capable. [Check it out here: https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/pro/] Putting Gemini 2.5 Pro to th ...

Strategic Gifting Before 2026 The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 presented an opportunity by significantly raising lifetime gift and estate tax exclusions, but this window is closing soon. With the exclusions set to expire at the end of 2025, there is an urgency to plan your gifts sooner than later. Imagine it is December 2025, and you have a chance to gift $14 million to your children without incurring a si ...

What is an Injured Party Worth? The Forensic and Valuation Services division of the AICPA and CIMA issued a Practice Aid in 2020 on Measuring Damages Involving Individuals. This Practice Aid supersedes AICPA Forensic and Valuation Services Practice Aid 98-2, Calculation of Damages from Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, and Employment Discrimination. This NACVA QuickRead article provides a summary of the upda ...

Just like flipping a switch to turn on a light, most of us do not think about what had to happen to make that light turn on. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already become as effortless as a light switch. You type a prompt into ChatGPT or Copilot, and it returns an answer, yet you likely have no idea how it works or what went into making it function. Unlike understanding electricity or the internet, graspi ...

Healthcare Policy Edition During his two months in office, President Trump’s administration has called for significant changes at a fast and furious pace, with several healthcare agencies and programs across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) targeted. To keep up with the latest actions of the legislative and executive branches of the federal government, this article summarizes recent ev ...

Matter of Weber—Challenges to a Trustee’s Accounting Go Awry Serving as a Trustee of a Trust is difficult. In the case presented, a trust beneficiary alleged that the trustee—his aunt—breached her fiduciary duty. The trust beneficiary retained an expert in connection to this claim and this did not go well for either the beneficiary or damages expert. The article summarizes the case, provides a road map and ...

Is AI the Death of Professional Judgment or its Reincarnation Only with careful oversight and the application of seasoned professional judgment can AI deliver results that are not only accurate but also defensible and unimpeachably neutral. This article in the Unimpeachable Neutrality Series explores the indispensable role of professional judgment, particularly as it intertwines with the capabilities of AI. ...

Take Up an Informed Contrarian View to Disrupt the Business Valuation Profession What frustrates you about our industry? Do you think your prospects, clients, and referral sources might feel the same way? What if you took a stand? What if you stood out by promising something different than the standard operating procedures your competitors follow? What frustrates you about our industry? There must be someth ...