Thursday, November 7th 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET
Financial Valuation Applications and Models, 2025, 5th Edition – Learn About NEW Concepts, Data, Models, and Methods
Speakers:
Jim Hitchner, CPA/ABV/CFF and Harold G. Martin, Jr., CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA, CFE
Webinar Description:
Join Jim Hitchner and Harold Martin as they update you on new issues in business valuations from this 2,000-page comprehensive book. This will include only new concepts, data, models, and methods in such areas as the income approach, cost of capital, growth rates, the transactions method, the public company method, S corps, small businesses, divorce valuations, discounts and premiums, reports, BV standards, and expert testimony.
Learning Objectives:
The participant will learn and be updated on the following:
- Use of different equity risk premium (ERP) methodologies
- New information on “known or knowable”
- Options for the terminal year in a DCF
- Control premiums and minority discounts, yes or no
- Use of public companies
- Issues with small businesses
- Issues in divorce valuations
- Supporting long-term growth rates
- Normalizing adjustments
- DCF vs. CCF
- Due diligence on projections
- Non-operating assets
- Company-specific risk
- Size premiums
- Industry risk premiums
- Guideline public company method
- Guideline company transactions method
- Taxes and S corps
- Testifying
Handouts:
- VPS webinar PowerPoint slides
- Following the webinar, attendees will have access to a video recording of the program
About the Presenters:
Jim Hitchner, CPA/ABV/CFF
- Managing Director, Financial Valuation Advisors Inc.
- CEO, Valuation Products and Services LLC
- President, Financial Consulting Group LLC
- Editor in Chief, Hardball with Hitchner publication
- 44 years in valuation services
- Former member of the AICPA task force on BV standards
- Inductee in the AICPA BV Hall of Fame
- Two-time recipient – AICPA Volunteer of the Year award
- Coauthored over 20 courses; taught over 60 courses
- Published over 150 articles; made over 400 presentations
- Discount for Lack of Marketability Guide and Toolkit, 2017
- Financial Valuation Applications and Models, 5th edition, 2025
- Financial Valuation Workbook, 5th edition, 2025
- PPC’s Guide to Business Valuations, 18th through 31st editions
- Hitchner • Pratt • Fishman, A Consensus View, Q&A Guide to Financial Valuation, 2016
- Valuation for Financial Reporting: Fair Value, Business Combinations, Intangible Assets, Goodwill, and Impairment Analysis, 3rd edition, 2011
Harold Martin, CPA/ABV, CFF, ASA, CFE
- Managing Director, Financial Consulting Group (FCG)
- Director and former Partner-in-Charge of Valuation and Forensic Services Practice and member of Executive Committee, Keiter
- Adjunct faculty member, The College of William and Mary Raymond A. Mason School of Business
- Over 40 years experience in valuation and forensic services, and public accounting
- Recognized by Forbes in its inaugural list of America’s Top 200 CPAs in 2024
- Inductee in the AICPA BV Hall of Fame
- Two-time recipient of the AICPA BV Volunteer of the Year award
- Taught over 50 AICPA courses on valuation and forensic accounting, including National BV School, ABV Exam Review Course, and Expert Witness Skills Workshop
- Co-author, Financial Valuation Applications and Models, 1st–5th editions
- Contributing author, Cost of Capital: Estimation and Applications, 2nd–4th editions
- Former member, AICPA Business Valuation Committee
- Former commissioner, AICPA National Accreditation Commission
- Former chair, AICPA National Business Valuation Conference
- Creator and former chair, VSCPA Forensic and Valuation Services Conference
- Editorial board member, Business Valuation Update
- Former expert panelist, Financial Valuation and Litigation Expert
Jim Hitchner’s Valuation Products and Services (VPS) provides tools to assist practitioners in business valuation, litigation services, and forensics and fraud.
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