Books published by Business Valuation Resources

The BVR Legal and Court Case Yearbook 2016 is essential for business appraisers and attorneys who want to stay ahead on the most important legal issues confronting the profession. The Yearbook analyzes the year's most meaningful valuation-related issues in the major courts including marital disputes, breach of contract actions, damages, dissenting shareholder disputes, estate and gift tax cases, federal taxation, intellectual property cases, bankruptcy litigation, and more. Readers learn how debates over economic damages, goodwill, M&A-related appraisals, discounts, and Daubert challenges played out in court during the past year.

The BVR Legal and Court Case Yearbook 2015 is a must-have for business valuation professionals and attorneys who want to stay up to date on the most important legal issues confronting the profession in a range of fields, including marital disputes, breach of contract actions, dissenting shareholder disputes, estate and gift tax cases, and bankruptcy litigation. Readers gain insight into how debates over economic damages, goodwill, M&A-related appraisals, discounts, and Daubert challenges played out in court during the past year. The Yearbook does not merely abstract the most critical court decisions, but it offers an in-depth analysis of the approaches the parties and the courts took to arrive at the decisions. Digests show the reader some of the best (and worst) practices that attorneys and experts used in making their case in courts throughout the country. BVR's acclaimed legal analysts continuously track published (and even unpublished) decisions from all state and federal jurisdictions, including such influential courts as the Delaware Court of Chancery and the United States Tax Court. In addition to the digests, the Yearbook contains a case summary table with a listing by state/jurisdiction, court, and case name, followed by a one-sentence description of the key valuation issue of each case.

Stay on top of this year's most important business valuation news with the new Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2014. With emerging methodology, evolving approaches, and critical debate, it's more important than ever to be current on the trends in the business appraisal profession. Now, all of the year's most important developments are reflected in a new resource--the Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2014. BVR's publications are the voice of the business valuation profession. We've got you covered with the latest on new approaches and techniques, leading conferences, new court decisions and changes in regulations and professional standards with on-the-ground reporting from valuation experts, thought-leaders and the BVR editorial team. The Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2014 contains more than 60 must-have articles from these sources and is divided into five categories: - Section I: Business Valuation Approaches, Methods and Entity-Specific Issues - Section II: Discounts for Lack of Marketability - Section III: Industry-Specific Valuation - Section IV: Intangible Assets - Section V: Business Valuation Profession and Practice Management In addition, the book offers a data section, which is a crucial reference for appraisers to track economic conditions and trends.

The BVR Legal and Court Case Yearbook 2014 is a must-have for business valuation professionals and attorneys who want to stay up-to-date on the most important legal issues confronting the profession in a range of fields, including: marital disputes, breach of contract actions, dissenting shareholder disputes, estate state and gift tax cases, and bankruptcy litigation. Readers gain insight into how debates over economic damages, goodwill, M&A-related appraisals, discounts, and Daubert challenges played out in court during the past year. The Yearbook does not merely abstract the most critical court decisions, but it offers an in-depth analysis of the approaches the parties and the courts took to arrive at the decisions. Ninety digests show the reader some of the best (and worst) practices that attorneys and experts used in making their case in courts throughout the country. BVR's acclaimed legal analysts continuously track published (and even unpublished) decisions from all state and federal jurisdictions, including such influential courts as the Delaware Court of Chancery and the United States Tax Court. In addition to the digests, The Yearbook contains a case summary table, as well as a listing by state/jurisdiction, court, and case name, followed by a one-sentence description of the key valuation issue of each case.

The Guide offers the first comprehensive body of knowledge for the emerging appraisal discipline of compensation valuation (CV) in the healthcare industry. It includes 42 chapters and five practice aides, presenting a systematic treatment of both the theory and practice of CV. This is a must-have text for appraisers, consultants, attorneys, and industry participants who deal with physician compensation arrangements in healthcare. Written by various subject-matter experts and thought leaders, this new guide is expected to become the industry's touchstone for the appraisal discipline of CV. The guide is organized into five sections: Introduction to Healthcare Compensation and Valuation: This section provides an overview and analysis of CV practice from the perspective of the appraisal profession and the valuation body of knowledge. It identifies the unique aspects of the new discipline, while developing working definitions for fair market value (FMV) and the three approaches to value adapted specifically for CV. The question of appraisal methodology in CV is evaluated in light of the key discipline and industry characteristics. One chapter is devoted solely to outlining the elements of a CV appraisal report. Regulatory Matters in Compensation Valuation This comprehensive section provides the first in-depth reconciliation of FMV as defined under healthcare regulations with the FMV as conceptualized in the valuation discipline. Two chapters offer groundbreaking discussions on the determination of commercial reasonableness, along with a practice aid for analyzing the commercial reasonableness of a compensation arrangement. Also included is a chapter focused on reasonable compensation for tax purposes. A primer chapter on healthcare regulations affecting valuation, written in nontechnical language and general in scope, opens the section. Topics in the Economics and Analysis of Physician Services Chapters in this section focus on specialized topics related to physician services, such as reimbursement, quality, benchmarking, and calculating physician productivity. A systematic introduction to physician services and the economics of physician practices is also included. Appraising Compensation Arrangements Comprehensive overview chapters in this section address the appraisal of major types of compensation arrangements. Each chapter addresses the market forces and typical contractual terms found in a given type of arrangement, along with an overview of the critical issues involved in its appraisal. Some arrangements are covered in separate chapters that provide an in-depth analysis of various valuation methods and techniques used in CV practice. Advanced Issues and Specialized Topics in Healthcare Compensation Valuation Research studies offer dramatic insight into advanced issues and specialized topics in CV, including three chapters on compensation per wRVU, and chapters covering the relationship of productivity and compensation and the relationships between reimbursement and compensation across markets. Additionally, two chapters address the use of survey data in CV.

BVR's Guide to Personal v. Enterprise Goodwill delivers first-hand knowledge and the most current issues in goodwill with expertise from Mark Dietrich, Ron Seigneur, Kevin Yeanoplos, Jay Fishman, Shannon Pratt, David Wood, Noah Gordon, and more. Save valuable research time with the one resource that every BV professional needs to have in their business valuation library. "BVR's Guide to Personal v. Enterprise Goodwill is an indispensible tool that should be on the shelves of every practitioner." Dr. Shannon Pratt, CFA, ARM, ABAR, FASA, MCBA, CM&AA Highlights of the new edition include: The most current thought-leadership with new and updated articles on personal and enterprise goodwill from leading experts, including: Personal Goodwill: Three Recent Taxpayer Defeats Affirm Existence of a Sometimes Forgotten Asset (by Michael F. Lynch, David J. Beausejour, and David B. Casten) Apportioning Goodwill in Divorce: A Discussion (by Jim Alerding and Andrew Soshnick, Esq.)

The valuation of dental practices and the number of appraisers conducting this type of engagement has increased dramatically over the last few decades. BVR's Guide to Valuing Dental Practices details the mature, multi-method process of dental practice valuation and the qualitative factors that go into the appraisal. With exclusive articles by top experts in the profession and actual valuation reports to aid the practitioner in understanding the critical elements, this Guide is an important resource every appraiser should have in their BV libary.

Many of the companies appraisers work with don't have meaningful forecasts, and even if they do, they often contain unreliable assumptions. Appraisers are often faced with the choice between no forecast, adjusting a weak forecast or providing their own. All of these options have their downsides, and no one can accurately predict the future. But short of abandoning the income approach all together, there are steps appraisers can take to ensure they have provided a meaningful forecast in their valuation. This new report from BVR provides tips and strategies appraisers can use to address management projection issues. Included in the report are recent court decisions where management projections were at the core of dispute.

By looking at actual full text license agreement, readers will learn ho company's characterize and monetize their trade secrets. An overview of what a trade secret is and how it is valued is also covered.

Valuation issues are at the heart of virtually every bankruptcy case and arise at almost every stage as the case proceeds. Whether in connection with adequate protection, plan confirmation, or the assessment of solvency in the context of avoidance actions, bankruptcy matters and valuation is-sues are always connected. BVR's bestselling Business Valuation & Bankruptcy: Case Law Compendium, Second Edition, is newly updated with the most recent court cases featuring business valuation and bankruptcy. This one-of-a-kind legal resource will save you hours of research as it covers cases involving a dispute over the value of a business, as well as several articles that provide insight on the challenges of valuing financially distressed businesses. This compendium features: - A desktop reference with widespread coverage of key bankruptcy and business valuation cases written by BVR's internationally recognized expert legal editorial team; - Summary tables for easy reference: quickly find the case name, type of case, date, court, state/jurisdiction and a snippet summary; and - Access to our exclusive website, with links to all of the full court opinions of featured cases.