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The Professional’s Guide to Fair Value The Future of Financial Reporting

Over the past ten years, fair value has been growing in importance, with the concept undergoing substantial changes and refinements. On May 12, 2011 a red-letter day in financial reporting history the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a revision of ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements, and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 13, Fair Value Measurement. These virtually identical documents gave the financial world a single definition and framework uniting Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in the United States with IFRS. Written to keep you abreast of these recent changes and major revisions, The Professional’s Guide to Fair Value provides all the essentials you need to comprehend, assume responsibility for, and sign off on financial statements with confidence.

Author James Catty who has created methodologies and models for valuations acceptable to the SEC, Canadian Stock Exchanges, NASDAQ, and London Stock Exchange shares his more than fifty years of global business valuation experience to provide you with the current elements and basics of fair value. The Professional’s Guide to Fair Value walks you through most fair value financial reporting topics, including risks, dealing with auditors, and your responsibilities as they relate to fair value.

Oriented toward CPAs, auditors, valuators, boards of directors, investors, and bankers anyone who needs to approve and/or understand financial statements?? this one-stop definitive resource for the most current fair value applications covers:

• Valuation principles

• The effect of market participants’ assumptions

• Projecting what is to come

• How to avoid unnecessary risks

• Believable and likely conclusions

• The nature of markets

• Comparable transactions

• Current replacement cost

• Sources of value: profits and risks

• Valuing liabilities

• Quantification of synergies

• GAAP Long-Lived Assets Impairment Tests

• IFRS Impairment Test

• GAAP Goodwill Impairment Tests

• Auditing fair values

Every entity, whether a corporation, trust, partnership, limited or unlimited company, or even a proprietorship, is likely to have at least one intangible asset on its balance sheet. Make sure all your assets are accurately valued with The Professional’s Guide to Fair Value.

Sign off on financial statements with confidence with the professional guidance found in The Professional’s Guide to Fair Value

When considering a substantial business deal whether a major expansion, significant acquisition, plant closure, or considerable divestiture a go/no-go decision has to be made, based on a bottom line calculated from sometimes inadequate information. The key questions you need to answer are: how much value will be created, and for whom? Learn how to skillfully assess and report your answers with The Professional’s Guide to Fair Value.

Based on the recent substantial changes to fair value rules as well as author James Catty’s fifty years in business valuations around the world, The Professional’s Guide to Fair Value provides the elements and basics of fair value, allowing you to grasp all the applicable elements and adhere to them as required. This comprehensive resource helps you understand the basics so that you may understand financial statements with certainty.

Filled with sample financial statements, tables, recommended applicable techniques, and checklists, The Professional’s Guide to Fair Value reviews:

• The ten commandments of valuation

• The fair value concept

• Reporting and cash-generating units

• The six stages of fair value: a framework

• Projecting what is to come

• The market, cost, and income approaches to fair value

• Sources of value

• Valuing liabilities

• Mergers

Don’t let uncertainty sabotage the value of your assets. The Professional’s Guide to Fair Value helps you achieve uniformity and consistency in valuation and financial reporting.