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Chuck Reed and Bo Brustkern will participate in two interactive classroom discussions at the Thunderbird School of Global Management tackling the two-part issue of modeling and valuing volatile enterprises in uncertain conditions. The discussions will take place Friday, September 5th in the classroom of Dr. John Mathis; and Saturday, September...
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Alrighty, folks. Here's a great article on SFAS 157. Now, if all we did was link to the myriad pieces relating to SFAS 157, we'd have little time to value companies. In the words of David Katz, Fair Value has "achieved the improbable feat of making front-page news." Sensationalism aside,...
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Dan Primack of PE Hub / PE Week Wire fame recently put FAS 157 on trial. Read his short account here. I'm afraid we've been to (and participated in) too many sessions with the same topic and nowhere near the entertainment value. Cheers to Dan for making a sobering topic...
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Alex Hodgkin, Managing Director of Arcstone Partners, will participate in a panel discussion alongside co-panelist Tom Miller, Managing Director of Quist Valuation, to tackle issues of Fair Value and financial reporting. James Beck of the Mayfield Fund will moderate the discussion. The panel will take place Friday, July 18 at...
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The Option Pricing Method has complicated the lives of valuation analysts industry-wide. Most likely you, I and all of our peers for so many years have considered the Current Value (CV) method to be the tried-and-true standard of valuation. Sadly, this is no longer the case. To level-set, the CV...
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