• QuickRead Featured - Valuation/Appraisal

    Book Review—What It’s Worth

    Hotel Business Value QuickRead’s Technical Editor, Roberto Castro, reviews BVR’s What It’s Worth: Hotel Business Value.  There are few resources available for business valuation professionals that focus on the valuation of hotels.  The “go to” reference books have been Stephen Rushmore, MAI and Erich Baum’s Hotels & Motels: Valuations and Market Studies, a 2001 Appraisal Institute publication, and David Harper’s Valuation of Hotels for Investors, a 2008 EG Books publication.  BVR’s Special Report, What It’s Worth: Hotel Business Value, covers some of the ground included in these other publications but highlights opportunities available to business valuation practitioners and takes issue…

  • Financial Forensics - QuickRead Featured

    Financial Forensics in Arson Cases

    Net Cash Flow is Often the Most Significant Single Factor in a Financial Condition Analysis A financial expert in an arson case answers four questions: What changes occurred in financial condition prior to the date of the fire? What was the financial condition at the date of the fire? What was the future financial picture if there had not been a fire? Was there a potential financial benefit from the fire?  Joe Epps explains why each of these questions matter.