Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2021

While ideas and methods continually evolve in the business valuation profession, 2020 marked a year of challenges unlike any other. Always a highly-anticipated annual publication, the Business Valuation Update Yearbook 2021 covers the year’s most groundbreaking and thought-provoking advancements on valuation methodologies in the face of a global pandemic. It also captures, changes in regulations and professional standards, key takeaways from the best virtual conferences, and tactical practice-building ideas. This critical desktop reference puts you ahead of the competition with on-the-ground reporting from valuation experts, thought-leaders, and BVR’s expert editorial and legal teams.The Yearbook is divided into eight sections for easy navigation.Section I. Business Valuation Approaches, Methods, and Entity-Specific Issues: Covers the latest news of the profession as well as the most discussed and most controversial business valuation topics that arose over the past year. Section II. Cost of Capital: It was a challenging year with COVID. This section includes articles on assessing additional economic risk due to COVID-19, quantifying a COVID-19 equity risk premium using high-yield bond pricing, and much more.Section III. Business Valuation Conference Coverage:  This year was a bit different, but BVR editors attended many of the virtual business valuation conferences both in the U.S. and around the globe and provided 'on-the-ground' reporting of topics and issues you need to know about.Section IV. Legal, Regulatory, Standards:  It’s always important to stay up on the latest news regarding the legal, regulatory, and BV standards landscape. 2020 was a momentous year for business valuation in several respects and we’ve covered many of the most important cases here. Section V. Business Valuation Profession and Practice Management:  This section includes a number of articles that reveal insights into how firms are attracting more valuation work and what management practices have worked best.Section VI. Reviews of Data Sources and New Books: Includes a look at some new resources for valuation professionals, including the expanded Mergerstat Review and a fresh look at transaction databases.Section VII. U.S. and Global BV News Roundup: A month-by-month compilation of news briefs and important announcements related to the business valuation profession not covered in the main articles. Section VIII. Data: An amalgamation of the monthly cost of capital data presented in tabular and chart form. Also, includes aggregated data from DealStats, the valuation profession’s leading data platform for private company transactions. 3