Current Trends in Cost of Capital
OL944 | On Demand Course | Update | Self-Study
Description
The participant will learn:
- How to defend their cost of capital in any type of review process (internal, tax, ESOPs, planning, etc.
- How to defend their cost of capital in a deposition, jury trial, bench trial, arbitration, or administrative hearing
- Includes cost of capital cross examination skits
- How to withstand intense attorney attacks
- What is out there besides the modified CAPM and the build-up model
- How to benchmark cost of capital inputs
- How to benchmark cost of capital conclusions
This course is part of the 2023 Forensic and Valuation Services Conference Bundle. Purchase the conference bundle here.
Credits
| Number of Credits | Type of Credits |
|---|---|
| 1.50 | Accounting |
Prices
- Member (Early Bird)
- $65.00
- Non-Member (Early Bird)
- $95.00
- Member
- $65.00
- Non-Member
- $95.00
Instructors
James R. Hitchner, CPA/ABV/CFF
Jim Hitchner is managing director of Financial Valuation Advisors www.finvaluation.com and is president of The Financial Consulting Group www.gofcg.org. He is also CEO of Valuation Products and Services (VPS) www.valuationproducts.com.
Mr. Hitchner is editor/coauthor of the books the Hitchner Pratt Fishman Consensus View Q&A Guide to Financial Valuation and the VPS DLOM Guide and Toolkit, published by VPS. He is also editor/coauthor of Financial Valuation Applications and Models (FVAM), fourth edition; Financial Valuation Workbook (FVW), fourth edition; and Valuation for Financial Reporting: Fair Value, Business Combinations, Intangible Assets, Goodwill, and Impairment Analysis, third edition, all published by Wiley. Mr. Hitchner was also coauthor of PPC's Guide to Business Valuation, 18th through 31st editions, Thomson Reuters. FVAM and FVW have been adopted by the AICPA for its five-day Business Valuation School. These two books are also used by the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts ("NACVA") for its three-day Advanced Business Valuation course. NACVA also uses the Discount for Lack of Marketability Guide and Toolkit as part of this course.
He has spent over 42 years in valuation services, including as a shareholder with Phillips Hitchner Group, partner-in-charge of valuation services for the Southern Region of Coopers & Lybrand (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers), and senior appraiser with American Appraisal Associates. In the valuation area he has coauthored over 20 courses, taught over 60 courses, published over 150 articles, and has made over 400 conference and webinar presentations.
He is also an inductee in the AICPA Business Valuation Hall of Fame and a two-time recipient of the AICPA's Business Valuation Volunteer of the Year award. He was also one of the four original members of the AICPA Business Valuation Standards Writing Task Force and served for the entire six years, up to the June 2007 official release of the standards.
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