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  • The Comprehensive Guide to Lost Profits Damages For Experts and Attorneys
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    Nancy Fannon, ASA, MCBA, CPA, ABV, BVAL brings together the comprehensive body of knowledge on lost profits damages and delivers the definitive resource for attorneys and financial experts alike. Fannon and other leading experts provide thorough analysis of current case law and valuation methodology related to the calculation of damages.  Access the Online version of Fannon’s Guide 24/7 from any Internet connection and take advantage of real time updates such as recently published court opinions, new articles by leading experts, conference presentations, podcasts, news and blog feeds, and much more! Plus, the Online Guide is available in digital format and can be loaded onto any eBook reader.

  • BVR’s Guide to Business Valuation Issues in Estate and Gift Tax
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    Over the past 10 years, appraisers and tax advisors have witnessed a sea-change in the area of estate and gift tax law. Significant Tax Court decisions have had a major impact on wealth succession planning, including the popular use of the family limited partnership. It is now more important than ever to stay current with legal arguments and technical analyses that apply to estate and gift tax law specific to business valuation.We have abstracted and correlated the leading Tax Court decisions from 1995 forward, and we have assembled some of the sharpest minds to make sense of it all.

  • BVR's Guide to Fair Value in Shareholder Dissent, Oppression, and Marital Dissolution
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    Case law abstracts save attorneys hours of research time.  We include a 50-state, at-a-glance chart comparing dissent and oppression statutes in all 50 states.  Finally, we ask the current thought leaders in fair value for their expert analyses.

  • BVR's Guide to Healthcare Valuation
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    Healthcare is the single largest segment of the economy, the financial aspects of which are perhaps the least understood. This 700+ page Guide (with searchable CD) features the country’s top healthcare legal and appraisal experts in the first comprehensive undertaking aimed at providing preparers and users of valuation reports with an in-depth understanding of the healthcare industry.

    From physician practices to home health care agencies, valuations across the continuum of medical care venues are addressed in this Guide. The valuation of healthcare companies is an increasingly tricky task, made even more so by the ever changing legal regulations. The field is rapidly changing due to reimbursement issues, shifting loopholes, technological advances, and Medicare fee changes. With cases like Derby, Caracci, Delaware Open MRI Radiology and others continuing to impact the healthcare valuation industry, it’s critical to stay on top of the legal and regulatory changes. Updated annually, this guide gathers together many of the top experts in healthcare valuation, giving you the essential tools you need to conduct these tough valuations. This Guide is a major contribution to the healthcare community’s body of knowledge and offers attorneys and valuation analysts the information and insight usually obtainable only through hours of study and years of experience.

  • BVR’s Online Guide to Personal v. Enterprise Goodwill
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    BVR’s Guide to Personal v. Enterprise Goodwill provides valuable and timely articles from leading experts in the field including David Wood, Jay Fishman, Mark Dietrich, Jim Alerding, Shannon Pratt, Kevin Yeanoplos, and many others. Learn the best ways to treat personal goodwill from the top professionals. In addition to the valuable articles, this Guide includes 140 court case abstracts and a quick reference table for easy use. This is a must-have resource for your business valuation practice.

    This Guide includes in-depth chapters on: common definitions of personal goodwill and how to recognize it in a corporation; pertinent case law concerning personal and enterprise goodwill; how to calculate personal goodwill and separate it from enterprise goodwill; and celebrity goodwill; a searchable CD with a PDF of the Guide, 140 court case abstracts and 220 full-text court case decisions on how personal goodwill is treated; transcripts from BVR’s 3 teleconferences on personal and enterprise goodwill; and an article with aggregate summary data from the 2008 Goodwill Registry on medical and dental practices (published by The Health Care Group).

  • BVR's Guide to Discounts for Lack of Marketability
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    This must-read Guide on discounts for lack of marketability is updated every year and includes NEW analysis by leading experts, including Z. Christopher Mercer, Bruce Johnson, Espen Robak, Lance Hall, James Budyak, and William Chandler. This Guide includes original articles on discounts for lack of marketability, articles republished from the Business Valuation Update newsletter, conference presentations, and excerpts from BVR’s popular teleconferences. You’ll also find hundreds of the most important and most recent court cases with an on-point discussion of the court’s ruling.