Understanding the value of your business or business assets provides you with the means to preserve or grow that value. Valuations are used for many reasons including investment analysis, capital budgeting, purchase price allocation, financial reporting, fresh start accounting, taxable events, and many other business and legal purposes including litigation support.
There are inherent financial, regulatory and legal factors that should be carefully deliberated in the valuation process. A thorough, supportable valuation requires the application of objective, accurate and advanced valuation methods balanced with education, training and experience that only accomplished valuation professionals can truly provide. These expert insights offer profound benefits such as the identification of value drivers, industry expertise, up-to-date compliance with the latest U.S. and international accounting standards and unbiased credibility and transparency.
Grant Thornton LLP’s Valuation Services professionals provide a full range of general or industry-specific valuation services to public and private corporations, private equity firms, governments, insurance carriers, attorneys, institutions, fiduciaries, private investors, family-owned interests and high net worth individuals.
Through the member and correspondent firms of Grant Thornton International Ltd, our globally integrated services platform provides access to highly credentialed thought leaders with specific industry, complex accounting and reporting experience delivered in a single source solution to your valuation issues wherever in the world you do business.
Key considerations for business valuation:
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Is there goodwill on the balance sheet?
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Are there indefinite lived intangible assets on the balance sheet?
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Has a merger or acquisition been completed within the last year?
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Is a merger or acquisition contemplated over the next 12 to 18 months?
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Could there be an impairment charge under ASC 360 (formerly SFAS 144?)
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Have stock options been granted in the last twelve months?
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Are key executives undertaking estate or gift tax planning?
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Is a Code Section 338h (10) or (g) acquisition contemplated; if so, and if foreign entities are involved, have statutory capital issues been addressed?
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Are there complex options or derivatives that have market exposure?
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Does a complex tax structure exist or are there tax changes that may entail moving intangible assets or subsidiary company equities?
You can take advantage of a variety of world-class and worldwide valuation service offerings:
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Financial reporting
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Corporate tax planning
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Transactions
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Dispute resolution and litigation support
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Bankruptcy and restructuring
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Equity compensation
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Estate and gift tax
- Tangible assets
- Intellectual property
For more information on our valuation services contact:
Neil Beaton, National partner in charge, 206.398.2487. Download V-Card.
