Any CPA/ABV preparing a
business valuation (BV) has undoubtedly heard of U.S.
has started the production of CCH
Business Valuation Guide, a new looseleaf resource.
In the
business valuation process, the market multiples of guideline companies, combined with meaningful analysis, can give you useful insights about private companies and divisional businesses.
The IRS
Business Valuation Guidelines include development, resolution, and reporting guidelines.
Gathering data is a key element of a
business valuation analysis--and you must assemble V enough to analyze your subject company from all sides.
A draft of proposed
Business Valuation Standards has been released by the AICPA for comment.
The AICPA and the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) have agreed on an educational equivalency program for
business valuation professionals.
Shannon Pratt, managing owner of
Business Valuation Resources LLC, recently signed with Valuation Advisors to be the sole distributor of the company's online database of financial details of transactions in private company stocks prior to initial public offerings.
In addition, Alliance also provides a free Downloadable
Business Valuations E-Book that covers many important
business valuation topics, including:
Pratt CFA, FASA, CBA, the well-known authority in the arena of
business valuation. His comments do well to give credibility to this work.
In the past,
business valuation has generated a number of skeptics because of its basis in prognostications about the future.