Financial Valuation

JAMES R. HITCHNER, CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA, is Managing Director of Financial Valuation Advisors, Inc., President of The Financial Consulting Group, and CEO of Valuation Products and Services and has over thirty years of valuation experience. He is also Editor in Chief of Financial Valuation and Litigation Expert journal. Mr. Hitchner is editor/coauthor of the books Financial Valuation Workbook, Third Edition, and Valuation for Financial Reporting: Fair Value, Business Combinations, Intangible Assets, Goodwill and Impairment Analysis, Third Edition, both published by Wiley, and coauthor of PPC's Guide to Business Valuations. He has been recognized as a qualified expert witness and has provided testimony on valuations in numerous state and federal courts. An inductee in the AICPA Business Valuation Hall of Fame, he is one of only four members of the original AICPA Business Valuation Standards Writing Task Force, in which he served for the entire six years up to the June 2007 official release of the standards. Coauthors: Mel H. Abraham, Jim Alerding, Neil Beaton, Marci Bour, Stacy Collins, Larry Cook, Don Drysdale, Robert E. Duffy, Ed Dupke, Jay Fishman, Chris Hamilton, Tom Hilton, James R. Hitchner, Steven D. Hyden, Gregory S. Koonsman, Mark Kucik, Eva Lang, Derald Lyons, Michael J. Mard, Harold Martin, Ed Moran, Ray Moran, Pat Perzel, Shannon Pratt, Ron Seigneur, Robin E. Taylor, Linda Trugman, Samuel Y. Wessinger, Don Wisehart, Kevin R. Yeanoplos

About The Editor. About The Authors. Acknowledgments. Preface. CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Financial Valuation. CHAPTER 2 Standards of Value. CHAPTER 3 Research and Its Presentation. CHAPTER 4 Financial Statement and Company Risk Analysis. CHAPTER 5 Income Approach. CHAPTER 6 Cost of Capital/Rates of Return. CHAPTER 7 Market Approach. CHAPTER 8 Asset Approach. CHAPTER 9 Valuation Discounts and Premiums. CHAPTER 10 Report Writing. CHAPTER 11 Business Valuation Standards. CHAPTER 12 Valuation of Pass-Through Entities. CHAPTER 13 Estate, Gift, and Income Tax Valuations. CHAPTER 14 Valuation of Family Limited Partnerships. CHAPTER 15 Summary of Tax Court Cases Issues. CHAPTER 16 Shareholder Disputes. CHAPTER 17 Employee Stock Ownership Plans. CHAPTER 18 Valuation in the Divorce Setting. CHAPTER 19 Valuation Issues in Small Businesses. CHAPTER 20 Valuation Issues in Professional Practices. CHAPTER 21 Valuation of Intangible Assets. CHAPTER 22 Marketing, Managing, and Making Money in a Valuation Services Group. CHAPTER 23 Business Damages. CHAPTER 24 Other Valuation Services Areas. CHAPTER 25 Valuation of Healthcare Service Businesses. CHAPTER 26 Special Industry Valuations. CHAPTER 27 Valuation Views and Controversial Issues: An Illustration. Index.