Business Valuation Update™

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The Business Valuation Update (BVU) is our leading monthly newsletter covering the widest range of news, analyses, and expert debate on the hottest valuation issues. BVU publishes articles by the top experts in the field, legal and court case abstracts, data and publications notices, Ibbotson cost of capital updates, a calendar of BV events, and more.

Enrich your BV repertoire with the most current thinking and research the BVU delivers in each monthly issue.

With each monthly issue you will get:

• Guest Articles/Interviews
  The monthly Guest Article or Interview is a forum for different viewpoints on the most timely topics in business valuation today. Top researchers and experts provide diverse insight into today's complex issues, such as formulating discounts, adjusting multiples, compiling data under different valuation approaches, and much more.
  
  
• Legal and Court Case Update
  The Legal & Court Case Update section of the BVU tracks business valuation court decisions nationwide on the federal and state level, including "landmark" opinions from the tax court and Delaware Chancery. Each month we feature approximately 7-10 new cases and provide valuation experts for each party.
  
  We research the experts' names beyond what the original opinion includes, and solicit commentary where appropriate - information you can't get anywhere else. We also summarize the most relevant facts of the case, the valuation evidence, the trial court findings, as well as the ultimate holdings and rationale on appeal.
  
  

• Data and Publications Update
  In every issue of the BVU we review new and relevant articles, books, conference presentations from the annual meetings of the major BV professional associations, valuation software releases, industry Web sites, and new empirical data sources, and more.
  
  
• Cost of Capital
  The BVU includes Ibbotson's Cost of Capital data each month. It shows monthly and yearly updated information on:
  • 30-day, 5-year, and 20-year yields at the beginning of each month
  • S&P 500 30-day, 5-year, and 20-year equity risk premiums as published by Ibbotson Associates
  • Supply side equity risk premiums and micro-cap and 10th decile size premiums as published by Ibbotson Associates
  • Price-to-Earnings ratios for Dow Jones Industrials at the beginning of each month
  • Long-term inflation and GDP rate of growth estimates as published by the Livingston Survey, and more!
    
    
• Special Reports
  The Special Reports section of the BVU includes the most current and often controversial research articles, coverage of business valuation conferences, op-ed pieces, and "in the trenches" commentary by business valuation experts.
  
  
• News Update
  The News Update section of the BVU keeps you "in-the-know" on important shifts in the BV profession, such as firm mergers and acquisitions, new regulations from the IRS, FASB, other important oversight agencies, and more.
  
  
• Reader/Editor Exchange
  In the Reader/Editor exchange, we invite our readers to express opinions to the editor about BVU articles, valuation topics, etc. and we solicit answers to their most pertinent inquiries from our editorial advisory board and other expert contributors.
  
  
• Calendar
  The Calendar section keeps you current with all the latest conferences, seminars, credentialing programs and training workshops in the valuation community.