Upcoming Webinar

VPS Straight Talk Series



Tuesday, April 2, 2024 1:00 – 3:00 pm EDT

Hitchner and Martin’s Greatest Hits – Best Practices, Avoiding Mistakes, Valuation Secrets, and How to Detect a Rigged Business Valuation

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Since 2012, Jim Hitchner and Harold Martin have been presenting on best practices, mistakes, secrets, and how to detect rigged business valuations. They have compiled their “greatest hits” over the years and will cover the following topics in this presentation:

  1. Cost of Capital
  2. Capitalized Cash Flow Method
  3. Discounted Cash Flow Method
  4. Guideline Company Transactions Method
  5. Guideline Public Company Method
  6. Discounts and Premiums
  7. Valuing Small Businesses
  8. Business Valuation Standards
  9. Valuation Assumptions

Learning Objectives:

  • The participant will learn:
  • How to defend valuation methods
  • How to select the proper level of reliability of valuation methods
  • Best practices in selecting various assumptions
  • How to avoid common mistakes
  • How to detect and present criticisms of a rigged valuation
  • Dirty little valuation secrets exposed

Handouts:

  • VPS webinar slides
  • Following the webinar, attendees will have access to a video recording of the program.

About the Presenter:

Jim Hitchner, CPA/ABV/CFF

  • Managing Director, Financial Valuation Advisors
  • CEO, Valuation Products and Services
  • President, The Financial Consulting Group
  • Coauthor, Discount for Lack of Marketability Guide and Toolkit
  • Coauthor, Hitchner Pratt Fishman: A Consensus View, Q&A Guide to Financial Valuation
  • Coauthor, Financial Valuation Applications and Models, fourth edition
  • Coauthor, PPC’s Guide to Business Valuations, 18th through 31sdt editions
  • Former member of the AICPA BV Standards Writing Task Force
  • Inductee in the AICPA BV Hall of Fame

Harold G. Martin, Jr., CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA, CFE

  • Inductee in the AICPA BV Hall of Fame
  • Director and former Partner-in-Charge of Valuation and Forensic Services Practice and member of Executive Committee, Keiter
  • Over 40 years experience in valuation and forensic services, public accounting, and financial services
  • Adjunct instructor, The College of William and Mary Raymond A. Mason School of Business
  • Two-time recipient of the AICPA BV Volunteer of the Year award
  • Former member, AICPA Business Valuation Committee
  • Former Commissioner, AICPA National Accreditation Commission
  • Taught over 50 AICPA courses on valuation and forensic accounting, including AICPA National BV School, AICPA ABV Exam Review Course, and AICPA Expert Witness Skills Workshop
  • Creator and former chair, VSCPA Forensic and Valuation Services Conference
  • Coauthor, Financial Valuation Applications and Models, 1st–5th eds.
  • Contributing author, Cost of Capital: Estimation and Applications, 2nd–4th eds.
  • Editorial Board member, Business Valuation Update
  • Former expert panelist, Financial Valuation and Litigation Expert
  • Former editor, AICPA ABV e-Alert
  • Former editorial adviser and contributing author, AICPA CPA Expert

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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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The VPS StraightTalk webinar series brings you outstanding continuing professional education on business valuation and litigation topics. Unless otherwise noted, all webinars are targeted at an intermediate program level, qualify for two hours of CPE credit, and begin at 1:00 p.m. ET. Pay one fee of $239 for your staff to participate, including your remote offices. Your employees can receive 2 CPE credits for attending the live presentation at NO additional fee. (Attendees must follow the webinar participant instructions to qualify. Certain restrictions apply to firms who have more than 20 attendees.) More information on the VPS StraightTalk webinar series can be found here.