BV Insights: Who Does the Marketing?
With the 2023 BVR Benchmarking Survey closed and the full results having been released, let's take a look at some of the insights regarding practice management.
View ArticlePreview: Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2024
The year 2023 was defined by unexpected economic events, new valuation conferences, and more. To kick off a new year, BVR has just released the Business Valuation Update Yearbook, 2024 edition, with...
View ArticleRobert “Bob” Kleeman Dies
Robert “Bob” Kleeman, CPA/ABV, ASA, a longtime member of the business valuation community, passed away on Saturday evening, Jan. 13, 2024.
View ArticleCOE Estimates From Leading Data Sets Are All ‘Very Close’
Find out why the Cost of Equity estimates from so many sources ended up being so similar.
View ArticlePreview: Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2024, Part 2
With a maxed-out capacity, the ASA New York Fair Value Conference was the place to be for anyone interested in valuation. Get a look behind the curtain at this event!
View ArticleHow CCPro Enhances Your Valuation Reports
Getting accurate cost of equity and WACC estimates and CRSP size premia can be a big job. However, thanks to Cost of Capital Professional, developing your cost of equity estimates has gotten so much...
View ArticleUpdate on AI
The issues regarding the shake up at OpenAI settled down, seemingly, as quickly as they fired up. The parent not-for-profit governing organization replaced most or all of its board of directors, but it...
View ArticleIs CPA Mobility In Jeopardy?
On Dec. 14, 2023, the Journal of Accountancy published an article titled "AICPA Issues Guidance on Potential Mobility Changes." The article caught my eye immediately.
View ArticleTax Planning With RCReports
Tax planning is an essential aspect of financial management for businesses and individuals. However, with a complex and ever-changing tax landscape, it can be challenging to navigate these waters...
View ArticleValuation Experts Make the First Forbes Top 200 CPAs List
The Forbes top 200 CPAs list is out. Let's take a look at which valuators made the list.
View ArticleVolunteering to Help Grow the Business Valuation Profession
You have heard and read a lot recently about the staffing issues the business valuation profession faces. Where are the people who will lead and staff the profession in the future going to come from?
View ArticleStout Acquires Financial Research Associates Inc.
Stout has acquired Financial Research Associates Inc. (FRA) for its Valuation Advisory Group.
View ArticleThoughts From Stacy Collins on the Stout Acquisition of FRA
We recently posted the news that Stout has acquired Financial Research Associates (FRA). Jay Fishman is the founder and leader of FRA, but there are other very talented people in FRA who are also...
View ArticleNFL Sunday Ticket Verdict Overturned—Rule 702 Applies to Exclude Witnesses
In a surprising decision in the NFL Sunday Ticket class action litigation the Court grants the Defendants’ motion for judgment as a matter of law. The judgment of the Jury after the trial was in favor...
View ArticleStrengthen Your BV Research With the New Research and Data Assistant
Business Valuation Resources (BVR) is excited to announce the launch of its cutting-edge Research and Data Assistant (RADA), now available to all BVResearch Pro subscribers.
View ArticleThe FTC Has Proposed Banning Most Noncompete Agreements
For the supposed purpose of fostering competition in the labor market, the Biden administration’s Federal Trade Commission is proposing to ban most noncompetition agreements.
View ArticleSeveral Cases Have Now Entered the Covenant Not to Compete Fray
By way of background, on April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule to, in their words, “ promote competition by banning noncompetes nationwide, protecting the fundamental...
View ArticleUpdate on Artificial Intelligence—Superconvergence
Get a look at some of the futuristic concepts discussed in the book Superconvergence and look at how AI factors into all of it.
View ArticleAmerican Society of Appraisers (ASA) 2024 International Conference
I had the pleasure of attending the 2024 ASA International Conference in Portland, Ore., September 15 to 19. This was my first time to visit Portland, Ore., and I found it to be a very pleasant and...
View ArticleNACVA Creates New 'Advisory Briefs' and Issues the First One on 'The Use of...
Parnell Black, NACVA’s co-founder and CEO, has announced that NACVA has issued its first Advisory Brief on “The Use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.” This is the first such AI advisory...
View ArticleMultiple Lines of Business—Let Me Count the Ways
Recently, I read an article from McKinsey titled “How CEOs Are Turning Corporate Venture Building Into Outsize Growth." While the article and survey are about what the title indicates, it reminded me...
View ArticleIRS Issues New “Regulations Governing Practice Before the Internal Revenue...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has published (Federal Register, Dec. 26, 2024) new proposed regulations on practice before the Internal Revenue Service. Of particular interest to the business...
View ArticleIs This the Last Gasp? FTC Makes One Last Plea to Get Its Noncompete Ban Back...
In a last ditch effort to revive its covenant not to compete ban, the Lina Kahn-led FTC is asking a federal appeals court to overturn a federal district court ruling that halted the FTC ban.
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