The Professional's Guide to Fair Value; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Signifi cance of Value; Business Uses for Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Reporting; Investment Bankers versus Valuators; Valuation Requirements; Litigation Risks; Ten Commandments of Valuation; Chapter 2: Fair Value Concept; Relevant Pronouncements; Definitions; Market Participants; Fair Value Accounting; Revaluation under IFRS; Other Types of Value; Valuation Principles; Reporting and Cash-Generating Units; Chapter 3: Fair Value Framework; Stage 1: Determine the Unit of Account.

Stage 2: Evaluate the Premise of ValueStage 3: Assess the Principal Market; Stage 4: Establish the Most Advantageous Market; Stage 5: Select Appropriate Valuation Methods; Stage 6: Estimate Fair Value Conclusions; Chapter 4: Taming the Future; Definitions; Effect of Market Participants' Assumptions; Scenario Analysis; Scenario Implications; Chapter 5: Projecting What Is to Come; Base the Future on the Past; The Truth Is in the Parts; Avoid Unnecessary Risks; Garbage In, Garbage Out; Believable and Likely Conclusions; Quality of Earnings; Conclusion.

Chapter 6: The Market Approach to Fair ValueNature of Markets; Classifying Assets; Comparable Transactions; Guideline Entities; Guideline Entities Example; Licensed Asset Example; Conclusion; Chapter 7: The Cost Approach to Fair Value; Current Replacement Cost; Deductions; Integrating the Factors; Residual Value; Useful Lives; Valuing Intangible Assets by the Cost Approach; Conclusion; Chapter 8: The Income Approach to Fair Value; Capitalization Methods; Income Approach--Discounting; Terminal Amounts; Application to Intangible Assets; Chapter 9: Sources of Value--Profi ts.

Structure of BusinessesInnovation; DuPont Analyses; Chapter 10: Sources of Value--Risks; Reducing Risks; Continual Monitoring and Testing; Dealing with Biases; Risk Rate Component Model; Intellectual Capital Value Drivers; Conclusion; Chapter 11: Valuing Liabilities; Liabilities Transferred Rather Than Settled; Asset Retirement Obligations; Contingent Liabilities; Chapter 12: Business Combinations; Do Mergers Pay Off?; Why Merge?; Determination of Synergies; Intrinsic and Investment Values; Quantification; Chapter 13: Purchase Price Allocation; Stage 1: Determine the Acquirer.

Stage 2: Establish the Consideration's Fair ValueKnowledge of the Industry; Stage 3: Identify All the Items Involved; Stage 4: Select Appropriate Valuation Techniques; Stage 5: Estimate Fair Values and Reconcile Rates of Return; Conclusion; Chapter 14: Impairment; Reporting Units; Cash-Generating Units; Goodwill; Allocations; GAAP Long-Lived Assets Impairment Test; IFRS Impairment Test; GAAP Goodwill Impairment Test; Chapter 15: The Auditor's Blessing; Auditing Fair Values; Conclusion; About the Author; Index.

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