Robert “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.
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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 ArticleSneak Peek: Guide to Physician Practice Finance and Valuation, 4th Edition
BVR’s Guide to Physician Practice Finance and Valuation, 4th Edition, is out now and features a completely reworked look at the key issues impacting healthcare valuation. Check out this sneak peek of...
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 ArticleSneak Peek: The DealStats Value Index
The DealStats Value Index is BVR's quarterly publication that gives you a window into the latest insights on private-company acquisitions with important data analysis drawn directly from the DealStats...
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.
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