The Lawyer's Business Valuation Handbook
Understanding Financial Statements, Appraisal Reports, and Expert Testimony
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The subject of business valuation is a critical one for lawyers in many areas, including family, corporate and tax law, and estate and financial planning. This comprehensive legal reference will help you understand and evaluate complex expert reports and testimony on business valuation issues. The book's author, business valuation expert Shannon Pratt, has extensive experience as an expert witness in many federal and state courts around the country. Built around the legal and factual settings a lawyer is apt to encounter, most sections of the handbook include illustrative "Questions to Ask" that can be employed to gain a better understanding of the expert's treatment of the subject matter. Extensive case citations to courts' positions on all types of business-valuation issues are also included.
Legal professionals will find this an invaluable resource for evaluating the quality and comprehensiveness of evidence. Among the practical explanations provided in the book are:
- Definitions of value
- Professional credentials and standards
- Commonly used terminology
- Recognized and accepted valuation methods, approaches and procedures
- Commonly used bodies of empirical evidence
- Extensive case citations
- …and much more.
This critical 675+ page desk reference includes 30+ chapters of expert guidance and reference material.
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“When business valuation is at issue, The Lawyer’s Business Valuation Handbook is the best single source available today. Clear, concise, yet comprehensive--a must have for practitioners who deal with business valuation.”
Jay E. Fishman, FASA
“Shannon Pratt and Alina Niculita provide a comprehensive analysis of valuation law, principles, and practice, enabling attorneys and judges to understand and apply valuation theory and precedent. Authored by the most frequently cited authority and expert witness on valuation issues, this book provides a pragmatic and state-of-the-art discussion on virtually every issue arising in valuation controversies.”
Keith Schiller, JD, The Schiller Law Group
“You have to have this book because the other side will be citing its contents to the judge! This book is everything the divorce lawyer needs to know about valuation to avoid malpractice. It will quickly become a standard text for all divorce practitioners. Everyone in our office will have their own copy.”
Gerald L. Nissenbaum, Past President of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) and International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML)
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Table of Contents
- Foreword --Tax Law Perspective
- Foreword -- Family Law Perspective
- Foreword -- Corporate Law Perspective
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Defining Value in the Relevant Context: Definitions of Value
- Chapter 2: Value to Whom? Levels and Premises of Value
- Chapter 3: Overview of Business Valuation Approaches, Methods, and Procedures
- Chapter 4: Financial Statement Terminology Used in Business Appraisal
- Chapter 5: The Income Approach
- Chapter 6: The Market Approach
- Chapter 7: The Asset-Based Approach
- Chapter 8: The Excess Earnings Method
- Chapter 9: Rules of Thumb
- Chapter 10: Personal versus Enterprise Goodwill
- Chapter 11: Reasonable Compensation
- Chapter 12: Financial Statement Adjustments
- Chapter 13: Comparative Financial Statement Analysis
- Chapter 14: Economic and Industry Analysis
- Chapter 15: Discounts and Premiums
- Chapter 16: Reconciliation of Value Indications
- Chapter 17: Valuations for Federal Tax Matters
- Chapter 18: Shareholder and Partner Disputes
- Chapter 19: Marital Dissolution Valuations
- Chapter 20: Fair Value for Financial Reporting
- Chapter 21: Employee Stock Ownership Plans
- Chapter 22: Valuing Professional Practices and Small Service Businesses
- Chapter 23: Valuing S Corporations and Other Pass-through Entities
- Chapter 24: Valuation Reports
- Chapter 25: Checklist for Reviewing a Business Valuation Report
- Chapter 26: Admissibility and Impact of Expert Business Valuation Evidence
- Chapter 27: Discovery and the Business Valuation Expert
- Chapter 28: Buy-Sell Agreements
- Chapter 29: Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Chapter 30: Business Valuation Standards and Credentials
- Chapter 31: Cross-examining a Business Valuation Expert
- Appendix A: Glossary of Business Valuation Terms
- Appendix B: Business Appraisal Professional Organizations
- Appendix C: General Bibliography
- Table of Cases
- Index
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