Business Valuation Services Archives - Advent Valuation Advisors Business Valuation | Forensic Accounting | Litigation Support Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:55:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://adventvalue.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cropped-advent-icon-32x32.png Business Valuation Services Archives - Advent Valuation Advisors 32 32 Divorce Case Highlights Value of Goodwill https://adventvalue.com/divorce-case-highlights-value-of-goodwill/ Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:02:27 +0000 https://adventvalue.com/?p=2541 While not a New York case, a recent divorce case in Delaware Family Court sheds new light on an old precedent for the treatment of enterprise goodwill in a sole proprietorship. The couple in A.A. v. B.A. married in 1979 and divorced in February 2017, but the case lingered, with a decision regarding the valuation of […]

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]]> How Much is that Donated Stock Worth? https://adventvalue.com/how-much-is-that-donated-stock-worth/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 13:40:45 +0000 https://adventvalue.com/?p=2531 Philanthropic business owners may have made last-minute gifts of stock to charities at the end of 2020. Others plan to make donations in 2021. How much is that stock worth? Donations of publicly traded stocks are relatively easy to value, but private equity interests are typically more complicated to value.   Deduction Requirements Qualified charitable donations […]

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]]> Lawsuit Turns on Credibility of Valuations https://adventvalue.com/lawsuit-turns-on-credibility-of-valuations/ Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:17:10 +0000 https://adventvalue.com/?p=2493 What makes the difference between your company being valued at $30 million or $6 million? Sometimes, it comes down to which valuation expert’s report the judge finds more credible. That’s what the owners of Kraus USA, Inc., a Long Island business selling fine plumbing fixtures, learned earlier this year. Sergio Magarik sued his co-owners, Michael […]

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]]> COVID Poses Challenges in Business Valuation https://adventvalue.com/covid-poses-challenges-in-business-valuation/ Wed, 02 Sep 2020 16:50:36 +0000 https://adventvalue.com/?p=2473 Business valuation is a prophecy of the future. That is, investors typically value a business based on its ability to generate future cash flow. However, with so many uncertainties in the current marketplace, forecasting expected cash flow can be challenging. Income Approach Under the income approach, the value of a business interest is a function […]

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]]> Understanding the Terms of Engagement https://adventvalue.com/understanding-the-terms-of-engagement/ Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:37:12 +0000 https://adventvalue.com/?p=2296 When you need to know how much your business is worth, one of the first questions to ask is, how much work – and how much expense – will it take to get the job done? In many circumstances, a comprehensive valuation is required or preferred. Sometimes, however, a relatively straightforward, and less costly, calculation […]

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