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Two experts can look at the same business and reach very different numbers — and in a courtroom, a tax dispute, or a buyout, that gap is where outcomes are decided. This course is built for the professionals who have to get it right. Across two focused modules, a faculty of practicing valuation experts takes you from the first question — what are we actually valuing? — through the methodologies and standards that hold up under scrutiny. You'll learn to distinguish enterprise value from a specific ownership interest, select the standard of value that governs your engagement, apply the asset, income, and market approaches with confidence, and use tools like linear regression to support lost-profits and economic-damages work. Just as important, you'll learn to scope the right engagement under AICPA standards — one that withstands IRS review and litigation. With video lessons, deep-dive readings, hands-on activities, and a coaching role-play, this is more than valuation theory. It's the practical judgment you can put to work on your very next engagement.

Syllabus

Understanding Assets and Context
- This module of Business Valuations Deep Dive: Professional Practice Edition — Understanding Assets and Context — covers 2 lessons: Understanding Assets and Context and Premises and Standards of Value. By the end of this module, you'll be able to distinguish enterprise value from the value of a specific ownership interest, and analyze how cap-table complexity (preferred classes, liquidation preferences, accrued dividends, common shareholders) and engagement purpose (gift/estate tax, tax court, ESOP, marital dissolution, strategic buyout) govern the analyst's scoping decisions. You'll also differentiate the four standards of value (fair market value, fair value, investment value, liquidation value) and evaluate the premise-of-value decision (going concern vs. liquidation) that constrains which standards and methods are even available to the analyst. How to engage: Start with the first lesson and proceed in order. Read the per-lesson takeaways after each video. Take the practice quiz at the end of the module to check your understanding before moving on.
Valuation Methodologies & Professional Engagement
- This module of Business Valuations Deep Dive: Professional Practice Edition — Valuation Methodologies & Professional Engagement — covers 5 lessons: Valuation Methodologies and Impacts; Capitalization Rates and Market Multiples; Adjustments and Global Economic Effects; Linear Regression Analysis and Discounted Cash Flow; and Engagement of a Valuation Professional. By the end of this module, you'll be able to analyze the three valuation approaches (asset, income, market) and evaluate balance-sheet adjustments, non-operating-asset carveouts, and normalizing adjustments to compensation under each approach for a going-concern controlling-interest engagement. You'll also evaluate linear regression analysis as a forensic tool and construct an engagement recommendation under AICPA SSVS that selects calculation vs. valuation engagement, accounts for IRS / litigation acceptance, and matches the credential profile (ABV, CVA, ASA) to the matter. How to engage: Start with the first lesson and proceed in order. Read the per-lesson takeaways after each video.