Valuation of business interests for Colorado divorce purposes must use the “standard” of value established by Colorado case law precedent: value to the martial estate or owner/spouse. This value may not necessarily reflect market value or value to those other than the exising business owner.
Download Article PDFWhether the business valuation report is your first or your fiftieth , two very important factors must be considered before starring your review. The expert who submits it must be sufficiently qualified to value the subject company, and the expert’s procedures and report must be in compliance with appropriate business valuation standards. The absence of either could disqualify the expert from testifying and keep the report from being admitted, which could help your case tremendously if the opposing expert has failed to meet the requirements or be devastating if the expert in question is your own.
Download Article PDFThe explosion in healthcare transactions after a tenyear hiatus has created a booming market for appraisal and valuation services. One of the peculiar aspects of the healthcare industry is that many if not most transactions must be supported by an independent appraisal due to
governmental regulatory concerns. As such, failure of appraisers or valuation analysts to understand healthcare markets and government regulations can lead to transactions taking place at prices inconsistent with both economic reality and regulatory parameters. These transactions can then find their way into databases relied upon by other appraisers, resulting in further transactions based upon suspect opinions of value.
Doctors in Britain can learn much from the American experience with managed care, says top US medical accountant Mark 0. Dietrich
Download Article PDFRelative Value Unit (RVU) based compensation arrangements are increasingly popular for compensating physicians. Where collected revenue-based systems—historically common in group practice, for example—reflect the individual physician’s underlying payor mix, RVU systems are payor-mix neutral. A RVU system[1] is therefore attractive to a physician employed by a hospital that treats patients regardless of their ability to pay. However, RVU systems may be tainted by payor mix and other market conditions, requiring that the analyst understand and examine the effects of this issue when using compensation survey data to establish fair market value incentive compensation based on RVUs.
Download Article PDFMark O . Dietrich , CPA/ABV is with
Dietrich & Wilson PC, located in
Framingham, Massachusetts.
Generally most actions taken to recover assets in a bankruptcy case involve the need to determine the solvency of the debtor at a particular point in time (often at the time of a transfer of a debtor’s property or the incurrence of a debt by the debtor). In order to establish if the debtor is solvent or insolvent, there must be a proper solvency analysis of selected assets or the subject business. In the following sections, we first define insolvency under the Bankruptcy Code. We then discuss the three traditional tests used in solvency determination, including the evolution and limitations of these tests. We then conclude with a discussion of how and why business valuation techniques provide a better methodology for solvency determination.
Download Article PDFEstablished health care valuation principles from the 1990s remain in full force and effect according to Mark Dietrich, CPA/ABV, founder of Mark Dietrich, CPA, PC, and author of the following article. Mark is coeditor and author of several chapters on medical practices and regulatory matters in Business Valuation Resources’ The Complete Guide to Healthcare Valuation, scheduled for publication in the fall of 2008. He is also a member of the editorial advisory board of CPA Expert. You can access his blog at http://cpanet.typepad.com.
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