Description
Archive 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 G. Martin, CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA, CFE
Webinar Description:
- Are you behind in your reading?
- Is your new year’s resolution to review that stack of publications on your desk?
- 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:
Participants will learn about the following:
- How will artificial intelligence impact valuation?
- AI-related securities claim class action suits
- Good and bad AI disclosure language
- Cost of capital benchmarks chart updated
- Alternative rate of return data
- What is the new Damodaran “Bot”?
- When valuing a minority interest, can you value the company on a control basis and not apply a DLOC?
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- New viewpoints
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- Current issues in the valuation of pass-through entities
- Is USPAP the only generally accepted appraisal standard?
- What the Business Valuation Resource Panel exposure draft entitled “Is the Busines
- Appraiser You Intend to Hire Competent for the Assignment?” is all about
- The best models for determining the cost of equity
- Allocating personal goodwill for divorce
- Court rejects double dip in Iowa divorce case
- Discounting non-operating assets
- How does the Discount for Lack of Control affect liabilities?
- New ideas on engagement letters
- How to handle personal guarantees in debt
- Iterative debt and equity to determine capital structure
- Quantifying key person discounts
- Working with attorneys
- Use of closed-end funds – a new perspective
- New DLOM chart
- Disproportionate distributions and S corps
Handouts:
- VPS Webinar Slides
- Various Related Articles
- Publication Citations
- Access to a Video Recording of the Program
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