Preface
The Financial Valuation Workbook (FVW) contains both educational exercises that guide the reader through a complete business valuation and valuation tools that professionals can use in preparing business valuations. It also contains detailed information on how to run a successful valuation practice. It is structured to be used on a stand-alone basis. It is also a companion text to Financial Valuation: Applications and Models, Third Edition (FVAM) (John Wiley & Sons), in which the subject matter contained in the workbook is expanded upon. This workbook contains basic, intermediate, and advanced topics on valuing businesses conveyed in a series of easily understandable exercises with comprehensive answers.
FVW is targeted to the following professionals and groups that are typically exposed to financial valuation issues:
- Appraisers
- Appraisal Associations and Societies
- Actuaries
- Attorneys
- Bankers
- Business Brokers
- Business Executives, including CEOs, CFOs, and Tax Directors
- Business Owners
- CPAs
- Estate and Gift Planners
- Financial Analysts
- Government Agencies including the IRS, SEC, and DOL
- Insurance Agents
- Investment Advisors
- Investment Bankers
- Judges
- Pension Administrators
- Stockbrokers
FVW contains eight chapters, each with a different purpose.
Chapter 1 contains more than 75 exercises that have been placed throughout excerpts of an actual business valuation report presenting numerous valuation topics, including rates of return, the capitalized cash flow method of the income ...
