Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2018 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781621501442)

In the business valuation profession, ideas and methods and approaches continually evolve, making it imperative to stay current with the most innovative approaches and techniques, court decisions, and regulatory and professional standards. BVR has you covered with the Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2018. This newest edition from the publishers of Business Valuation Update covers the year's most groundbreaking and thought-provoking advancements in business valuation. This critical desktop reference keeps you ahead of your peers with on-the-ground reporting from valuation experts, thought-leaders, and BVR's editorial team.

The Yearbook is divided into six easy to maneuver sections:

• Section I. Business Valuation Approaches, Methods, and Entity-Specific Issues: This section covers the latest industry news as well as the most discussed and most controversial business valuation topics that arose over the past year. Make sure you're in-the-know on topics such as practical tips for valuing intellectual property, a new approach to quantifying personal goodwill, and a fresh look at discounts for lack of marketability. Other articles of note cover the cost of capital, economic obsolescence, fairness opinions, and tax affecting S corporations
  
• Section II. Industry-Specific Valuation: These articles include coverage on the valuation of space firms, the challenges of valuing marijuana businesses, insight into valuing energy businesses and auto dealerships, and much more
  
• Section III. Legal, Regulatory, Standards: It's imperative to stay current on the latest news regarding the legal, regulatory, and business valuation standards landscape. This section offers critical insight into the new fair value regulations, international regulations, and FASB changes
  
• Section IV. Business Valuation Profession and Practice Management: A number of articles in this section reveal insights into valuation firm performance and practice development. Get ideas to bring in more business valuation engagements, as well as coverage and action tips from the year's major business valuation conferences
  
• Section V. Reviews of Data Sources and New Books: This section reviews the new Discount for Lack of Marketability Guide and Toolkit, Aswath Damodaran's new book on the power of stories in valuation, and the new edition of Financial Valuation: Applications and Models
  
• Section VI. Data: This important section is an amalgamation of the monthly cost of capital data presented in tabular and chart form