Business Valuations
Be better prepared with an objective business valuation. In a constantly changing business environment, your company’s best weapon is to be able to react quickly. Proactively obtaining an objective, professionally prepared valuation of your business can give you the flexibility to respond to change and take advantage of opportunities.
Valuations for Financial Reporting
Restoring Confidence in Corporate Reporting
More than ever before, companies require an advisory firm with deep technical knowledge of fair value financial reporting. Companies are best served by advisors that can bridge the understanding of fair value between auditors and users of financial statements. To that end, Dopkins & Company professionals have helped clients successfully meet their financial reporting requirements.
In an era of regulatory change and dynamic business models, financial reporting services must be equipped to handle complex business issues down to the smallest detail. Based on our knowledge of valuation and financial accounting and on our experience with auditors and users of financial statements, our professionals are at the leading edge of development of analyses and reports to assist with our clients’ planning and to support their financial reporting.
Some of the financial reporting issues we assist our clients with include:
- Purchase price allocation
- Goodwill and other asset impairments
- Incentive compensation and equity based compensation
Valuations for Tax Planning and Reporting
Defending Your Tax Position With Integrity
At Dopkins & Company, we have extensive experience in preparing and consulting on valuations for tax related purposes. Members of our valuation services group have been engaged to assist individuals and companies meet their tax planning and reporting requirements.
Our valuation services group provides the independence and integrity that are the cornerstones of preparing valuation support for a defendable tax position. We have extensive experience in assisting our clients defend their valuation positions in matters before the Internal Revenue Service, state tax authorities, foreign governments and other tax-related entities.
Extensive knowledge of tax laws and deep industry expertise are hallmarks of our senior valuation personnel. We have extensive experience assisting with tax related valuations for the following purposes:
- Estate and gift tax planning and compliance
- Subchapter S elections
- Purchase price allocations for domestic and international transactions
- Nonqualified deferred compensation – Sec. 409A
- Valuations of assets or securities donated to a charity
