AICPA Releases Comprehensive Stock Compensation Guide Draft

The AICPA’s Cheap Stock Guide working draft introduces significant changes to valuation practices, reflecting evolving market practice.

Rebecca Layman

Ms. Layman specializes in complex financial instrument and financial reporting valuations with deep expertise across fair value measurements, purchase price allocations, stock-based compensation, and impairment…

Luke Van Horn

Mr. Van Horn is responsible for business development for VRC in the Rocky Mountain region. With over a decade of experience executing and leading valuation…

Luke McCann

Mr. McCann has extensive experience preparing valuations for a variety of purposes, including financial reporting, tax compliance, mergers and acquisitions, ESOPs, and litigation matters. He…

Adam Smith

Mr. Smith has over 25 years of experience in the valuation industry. He has conducted valuations of businesses, intangible assets, derivatives, and more, serving a…

Saloni Bhatt

Ms. Bhatt specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations (ASC 805 and IFRS 3), impairment analyses (ASC 350 and IAS 36), intellectual property valuations,…

Brian Daury

Mr. Daury specializes in valuations of business enterprises, pass-through entities, and privately-held debt and equity securities for financial reporting, tax purposes, and exit/succession planning. Prior…

David Menke

Mr. Menke is part of the portfolio valuation group specializing in valuations of privately-held debt securities, equity securities, and business enterprises for tax and financial…

Evan Lewis

Mr. Lewis has extensive experience providing valuation services to private equity firms and privately held companies. He specializes in fairness and solvency opinions, complex security…

Pierre Barat

Mr. Barat specializes in valuation engagements for public and private companies in support of business combinations (ASC 805), impairment testing (ASC 350 & 360), stock-based…

Stock Options & ASC 718: Consider Total Ramifications

The top six issues you need to address when issuing share-based compensation.

Xavier Love

Mr. Love specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations (ASC 805 and IFRS 3), impairment analyses (ASC 350 and IAS 36), intellectual property valuations,…

Molly Shepard

Ms. Shepard specializes in valuations of businesses and intangible assets for a variety of purposes, including fair value measurement, allocation of purchase price, impairment testing,…

Sean Poynton

Mr. Poynton specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations (ASC 805), impairment analyses (ASC 350), intellectual property valuations, contingent consideration valuations, and the valuation…

Charles Chen

Mr. Chen specializes in the valuation of stock compensation, options, derivatives, and complex securities. He has extensive experience performing Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the…

Oleg Pesterev

Mr. Pesterev specializes in valuing complex securities including options, warrants, preferred stocks, convertible bonds, debt, contingent considerations, and commodity instruments for financial reporting and tax…

Presiyan Lazarov

Mr. Lazarov has over 15 years of experience in valuation advisory spanning from pre-revenue start-ups to late-stage, middle market companies for a variety of purposes…

Bryson Miller

Bryson Miller leads VRC’s Dallas office. He has provided numerous business, intangible asset, and equity valuations for a variety of purposes, including fair value measurements…

Shri Shetty

Ms. Shetty specializes in valuation of share-based compensation, options, derivatives, and complex securities. Prior to VRC, Ms. Shetty was an intern at Merrill Lynch where…

Pablo Alfaro

Mr. Alfaro specializes in valuing complex securities including options, warrants, convertible bonds, and preferred and common stock in privately-held companies. He has extensive experience valuing…

Dwight Grant

In his role as Senior Advisor to VRC, Mr. Grant advises VRC and clients on the valuations of financial instruments, derivatives, and complex securities related…

Lucy Lee

Ms. Lee specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations, goodwill impairment testing, and securities valuations for financial and reporting and tax purposes. Ms. Lee…

Charles Costa

Mr. Costa specializes in valuations of businesses, pass-through entities, and intangible assets for financial reporting, tax purposes, Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), and exit/succession planning.…

Sean Woodward

Mr. Woodward specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations (ASC 805), impairment analyses (ASC 350), intellectual property valuations, contingent consideration valuations, and the valuation…

Kevin Hagemeier

Mr. Hagemeier has significant experience with public and private corporate needs including transactional consulting. He specializes in valuation engagements including intangible assets for business combinations,…

Mercedes Falcon

Ms. Falcon has extensive experience in business valuation for financial and tax purposes, project management and corporate finance. Prior to joining Valuation Research, Ms. Falcon…

Jason Storbeck

Jason Storbeck specializes in the valuation of business enterprises, intangible assets for purchase price allocations, goodwill impairment studies, and stock compensation expense for financial reporting…

Steven Schuetz

With over 30 years of experience in valuation, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, Steve Schuetz is a Senior Advisor to the firm. Mr. Schuetz…

Anthony Pumphrey

Mr. Pumphrey has nearly two decades of experience in valuation engagements for public and private companies in support of business combinations (ASC 805), impairment testing…

Neal Piper

Mr. Piper specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations, impairment analyses and intellectual property valuations for financial reporting and tax purposes. He also focuses…

Valuing a Minority Shareholder’s Common Stock Amid Capital Restructurings

Valuing investments in private companies requires a flexible approach.