Executive's Guide to Fair Value: Profiting from the New Valuation Rules - Hardcover

King, Alfred M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470173297 ISBN 13: 9780470173299

Publisher: Wiley, 2008

Synopsis

Praise for Executive's Guide to Fair Value: Profiting from the New Valuation Rules

"The advent of fair value reporting is not your Momma's (or your Papa's) kind of accounting. If you're a financial professional above the age of twenty-five who is working in industry, read this book. From choosing a fair value specialist to the perils of 'made as instructed' valuations to purchase price allocations to impairment testing to that SEC tripwire, customer relationships, fair value expert Al King gets it right. And he does so with neither jargon nor literary anesthesia. As a former CFO myself, all I can say is WOW!"
-Warren D. Miller, CFA, ASA, CMA, CPA, Cofounder, Beckmill Research

A hands-on guide for financial executives

needing to understand the appraisal process

Executive's Guide to Fair Value: Profiting from the New Valuation Rules brings senior level executives up to speed on what fair value really means. This new book addresses a full range of issues facing auditors and executives, including litigation and the "true" determination of value, estimating the value of working capital, and how to estimate the value and life of intangible assets.

Complete with advice on the latest FASB rules and regulations, Executive's Guide to Fair Value: Profiting from the New Valuation Rules provides the most up-to-date and reliable information on:

The latest fair value rules and how they impact both preparers and users of financial statements

The role and responsibility of the appraisal specialist, including best practice tips for choosing and evaluating an appraiser

Testing customer relationships for impairment

A thorough knowledge of what fair value accounting is and how it can impact your corporation and its profitability

Practical applications, including incentive compensation and equity-based compensation

In basic, nontechnical language, Executive's Guide to Fair Value: Profiting from the New Valuation Rules will help all financial executives and auditors succeed in understanding the new fair value accounting rules that corporations must now follow. The result is a resource that professionals can rely on to understand the importance of valuation and the concepts that define it.

About this title

About the Author

Alfred M. King, CMA, is the Vice Chairman of Marshall & Stevens and the former chairman of Valuation Research Corporation; both are?national firms of appraisers.? He speaks at various conferences on valuation issues.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Executive's Guide to Fair Value: Profiting from the New Valuation Rules

"The advent of fair value reporting is not your Momma's (or your Papa's) kind of accounting. If you're a financial professional above the age of twenty-five who is working in industry, read this book. From choosing a fair value specialist to the perils of 'made as instructed' valuations to purchase price allocations to impairment testing to that SEC tripwire, customer relationships, fair value expert Al King gets it right. And he does so with neither jargon nor literary anesthesia. As a former CFO myself, all I can say is WOW!"
Warren D. Miller, CFA, ASA, CMA, CPA, Cofounder, Beckmill Research

A hands-on guide for financial executives

needing to understand the appraisal process

Executive's Guide to Fair Value: Profiting from the New Valuation Rules brings senior level executives up to speed on what fair value really means. This new book addresses a full range of issues facing auditors and executives, including litigation and the "true" determination of value, estimating the value of working capital, and how to estimate the value and life of intangible assets.

Complete with advice on the latest FASB rules and regulations, Executive's Guide to Fair Value: Profiting from the New Valuation Rules provides the most up-to-date and reliable information on:

The latest fair value rules and how they impact both preparers and users of financial statements

The role and responsibility of the appraisal specialist, including best practice tips for choosing and evaluating an appraiser

Testing customer relationships for impairment

A thorough knowledge of what fair value accounting is and how it can impact your corporation and its profitability

Practical applications, including incentive compensation and equity-based compensation

In basic, nontechnical language, Executive's Guide to Fair Value: Profiting from the New Valuation Rules will help all financial executives and auditors succeed in understanding the new fair value accounting rules that corporations must now follow. The result is a resource that professionals can rely on to understand the importance of valuation and the concepts that define it.

From the Inside Flap

Executive's Guide to Fair Value: Profiting from the New Valuation Rules

With today's unpredictable market conditions, the FASB increasingly requires U.S. corporations to mark more balance sheet items according to their "fair value," and in turn executives are required to become more "fluent" in the FASB's rulings on the use of fair values in financial reporting. As a result, investors need to know what an asset is currently worth, rather than what it was worth when it was acquired. But what exactly does fair value mean and what are its implications?

A practical foundation to fair value for corporate financial officers and auditors, Executive's Guide to Fair Value: Profiting from the New Valuation Rules covers everything executives need to know about fair value all in one accessible source including:

• How the new fair value rules provide substantial room for potential manipulation of reported financial results

• Why the same asset can have several different fair values

• How valuations are tested in the real world of litigation

• An in-depth look at accounting for M&A transactions

• Estimating the value of working capital

• Valuation of liabilities

• Fair value, property, plant and equipment, and Sarbanes-Oxley

Executive's Guide to Fair Value: Profiting from the New Valuation Rules takes a complex topic and demystifies it with practical advice and helpful knowledge, guiding executives with a trusted reference on the nuts-and-bolts of fair value financial disclosure. This one-stop resource helps readers become familiar with the new rules of fair value and the impact these rules will have on both preparers and users of financial statements.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470173297
• ISBN 13: 9780470173299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272