The Practicing CPA's Business Valuation Course
Objective
A “how to” course that provides participants with a solid foundation in business valuation including Risk (discount and capitalization rates), the
discounted free cashflow and excess earnings methods and the market approach – things you can actually use to value a business.
Highlights
- Concise case study examples of various valuation
methods.
- Don’t be Dumb with Rules of Thumb.
- Reality Checks!
- Understandable explanation of the Capital Asset Pricing
Model – and why you should care!
- The Weighted Average Cost of Capital – what is it and
why does it matter.
- The Real Deal on lack of control and
marketability discounts.
- Control and noncontrol valuation assumptions and normalization adjustments!
- How to value a covenant not to compete.
- Common mistakes and how to avoid them - with real life examples.
- Websites to simplify valuation research.
- Texts for your valuation library.
- A detailed course book that will serve as a valuable reference tool.
Designed for CPAs who understand basic finance and are interested in advising their clients about buying and selling businesses at a “fair market” price.
Also an excellent foundation course for those considering taking the ABV exam – from an instructor who passed the first one! Appropriate as well for
non-CPAs with a solid foundation in finance and financial statements, and those confronted with FAS 142 who need to understand valuation.
Level
Intermediate
Bio
Mark O. Dietrich, CPA/ABV is acknowledged as one of our profession’s business valuation experts. A frequent contributor to such journals as Valuation
Strategies, Business Valuation Review, and CPA Expert and invited speaker at national valuation conferences, Mark has taught dozens of business
valuation courses across the country. He has more than 150 valuation engagements and extensive expert witness and “deal making” experience. He will
provide you with the insights of a practitioner who uses valuation as part of “real world” transactions.
