Description
Archive 2023-181: Defending Your Cost of Capital New Concepts to Strengthen Your Discount Rate
***Includes “INTENSE” Cross-Examination Skit***
**Webinar 181: Live Broadcast Date: August 9, 2023, 1:00-3:00 pm EDT**
Defending Your Cost of Capital New Concepts to Strengthen Your Discount Rate
***Includes “INTENSE” Cross-Examination Skit***
Speakers:James R. Hitchner, CPA/ABV/CFF and Harold G. Martin, Jr., CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA, CFE
In addition to defending thousands of cost of capital calculations, Hitchner and Martin have testified about 100 times each on cost of capital in business valuation and have a wealth of experience to share. They will tackle the tough issues and take the time to answer your questions in a straightforward manner.
The webinar will include sample cost of capital cross-examination questions and answers and includes a live, INTENSE mock testimony.
Learning Objectives:
The participant will learn:
- How to defend their cost of capital in any type of review process (internal, tax, ESOPs, planning, etc.)
- How to defend their cost of capital in a deposition, jury trial, bench trial, arbitration, or administrative hearing
- How to withstand intense attorney attacks
- What is out there besides the modified CAPM and the build-up model
- How to benchmark cost of capital inputs
- How to benchmark cost of capital conclusions
- Excellent report language examples to bolster your cost of capital presentation
Webinar Outline:
- The dos and don’ts concerning depositions and trial testimony in cost of capital
- Learning the trick questions and how to respond
- Dealing with soft spots in testimony
- How attorneys use BV standards to reinforce or destroy an expert’s credibility in cost of capital
- Review of the work of another expert
- How to handle a belligerent cross-examination
- The use of various cost of capital techniques outside of the MCAPM and BUM
Handouts
- Copy of the VPS webinar PowerPoint slides
- Sample cross-examination questions and answers
- Access to a video recording of the program.
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