2026-210: Hitchner’s Annual New Year BV Update

2026-210: Hitchner’s Annual New Year BV Update

**Webinar 210: Live Broadcast Date: February 17, 2026, 1:00-3:00 pm ET**

VPS STRAIGHTtalk Webinar Series:

Speakers: Jim Hitchner CPA/ABV/CFF & Harold Martin, CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA, CFE

Description:

1. Are you behind in your reading?
2. Is your new year’s resolution to review that stack of publications on your desk? 
3. Are you still unsure about many valuation issues? 

This webinar will help you keep that resolution, clear that clutter, and update you on new issues in business valuations. We will only present what we believe to be some of the most important pieces of BV information from 2025. This will include only NEW concepts, data, models, and methods in such areas as the income approach, cost of capital, inflation, growth rates, the guideline company transactions method, the guideline public company method, discounts and premiums, reports, BV standards, poll results, expert testimony, and implications of artificial intelligence on valuation.

Learning Objectives:

The participant will learn the following:

• • MythBusters greatest hits
  • How will artificial intelligence impact valuation?
  • Cost of capital benchmarks chart updated
  • Alternative rate of return data (Venture capital rates of return and the Pepperdine studies)
  • When valuing a minority interest, can you value the company on a control basis and not apply a DLOC?
  • Is USPAP the only generally accepted appraisal standard?
  • What is the Business Valuation Resource Panel exposure draft entitled “Is the Business Appraiser You Intend to Hire Competent for the Assignment?” all about?
  • Can you value a real estate holding company or FLP using the net asset value method?
  • Should working capital be normalized to determine any surplus or deficit?
  • Should all interest-bearing debt be added back to determine working capital for invested capital?
  • Does undistributed excess cash increase the value of a business?
  • What are the best models for determining the cost of equity?
  • Allocating personal goodwill for divorce
  • Discounting of non-operating assets
  • Are gift tax valuations valued in the hands of the donor or donee?
  • What does the IRS expect to see in a business valuation report?
  • Current issues in the valuation of pass-through entities

 Handouts:

• • VPS Webinar slides
  • Various related articles
  • Sample report section
  • Following the webinar, attendees will have access to a video recording of the program

With our simple flat pricing plan, your entire office (up to 20 people) can join us for this 100-minute presentation, earn two hours of CPE credit, and receive an archive recording for $299. Contact jkern@valuationproducts.com if your firm will have more than 20 attendees.

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Program Level: Intermediate
Delivery Method: Group/Internet based
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of business valuation concepts
CPE Credits: Two 50-minute CPE hours / Field of Study: Specialized Knowledge
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