Financial Valuation Workbook: Step–by–Step Exercises to Help You Master Financial Valuation (Wiley Finance) - Softcover

Hitchner, James R.; Mard, Michael J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471761184 ISBN 13: 9780471761181

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Synopsis

Ghe complete resource to guide professionals through a full business valuation and to better manage their practice.

Now valuation professionals can master every function for every valuation situation. The Financial Valuation Workbook, Second Edition guides readers through a complete business valuation with essential tools for quick reference.

Completely revised and updated, this practical guide applies valuation theory to real–world business environments and provides a detailed case study, models, and exercises covering basic, intermediate, and advanced topics for readers at any valuation level.

Three new chapters have been added. Chapter 3, "Companion Exercises and Test Questions," includes over 300 exercises that can be used to prepare for business valuation certification exams or by professors as reinforcement of the material presented in Financial Valuation Applications and Models. Chapter 6, "Marketing, Managing, and Making Money," presents marketing and staff management tips and highlights risk management in regard to reports and engagements letters with examples. Chapter 7, "Practice Management Workflow Procedures," starts with the initial prospective client call, ends with billing, and provides checkpoints throughout the entire valuation management process.

This Workbook is organized by standard, easily identifiable sections that allow for easy reference by all professionals. This accessible text:

• Covers step by step the intricacies of preparing a credible valuation
• Guides the less experienced valuation practitioner through concepts and applications
• Includes helpful resources such as information requests, thirty–seven checklists, and other tools to assist valuation practitioners

The authors also include a chapter of helpful "ValTips" submitted by thirty leading valuation experts. CPAs, appraisers, attorneys, merger and acquisition professionals, professors, and students will find the Financial Valuation Workbook, Second Edition to be an essential resource.

About this title

About the Author

JAMES R. HITCHNER, CPA/ABV, ASA, is a leading figure in business valuation, national speaker, and business valuation course developer. ?Managing Director of The Financial Valuation Group of Atlanta, Hitchner has twenty–eight years of professional experience and is a recognized expert witness. In addition to editing the successful first edition of Financial Valuation Applications and Models and its accompanying workbook, he is coauthor of Valuation for Financial Reporting, published by Wiley. Both the AICPA′s six–day Business Valuation Essentials course and NACVA′s three–day Advanced Business Valuation course are based on his books. Hitchner is Editor in Chief of the national bi–monthly journal, Financial Valuation and Litigation Expert.

MICHAEL J. MARD, CPA/ABV, ASA, is Managing Director of The Financial Valuation Group, Tampa, Florida. With over twenty years of professional business valuation experience, he is a qualified expert witness. He is lead author of Driving Your Company′s Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value and coauthor of Valuation for Financial Reporting, Financial Valuation Applications and Models, and Financial Valuation Workbook, all published by Wiley. He is Executive Editor of the national bi–monthly journal, Financial Valuation and Litigation Expert.

From the Back Cover

The complete resource to guide professionals through a fullbusiness valuation and to better manage their practice

Now valuation professionals can master every function for every valuation situation. The Financial Valuation Workbook, Second Edition guides readers through a complete business valuation with essential tools for quick reference.

Completely revised and updated, this practical guide applies valuation theory to real–world business environments and provides a detailed case study, models, and exercises covering basic, intermediate, and advanced topics for readers at any valuation level.

Three new chapters have been added. Chapter 3, "Companion Exercises and Test Questions," includes over 300 exercises that can be used to prepare for business valuation certification exams or by professors as reinforcement of the material presented in Financial Valuation Applications and Models. Chapter 6, "Marketing, Managing, and Making Money," presents marketing and staff management tips and highlights risk management in regard to reports and engagements letters with examples. Chapter 7, "Practice Management Workflow Procedures," starts with the initial prospective client call, ends with billing, and provides checkpoints throughout the entire valuation management process.

This Workbook is organized by standard, easily identifiable sections that allow for easy reference by all professionals. This accessible text:

• Covers step by step the intricacies of preparing a credible valuation
• Guides the less experienced valuation practitioner through concepts and applications
• Includes helpful resources such as information requests, thirty–seven checklists, and other tools to assist valuation practitioners

The authors also include a chapter of helpful "ValTips" submitted by thirty leading valuation experts. CPAs, appraisers, attorneys, merger and acquisition professionals, professors, and students will find the Financial Valuation Workbook, Second Edition to be an essential resource.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471761184
• ISBN 13: 9780471761181
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384