Business Valuation Challenge

The 2019 7th annual Business Valuation Challenge will be held at Georgia State University's state of the art facilities in downtown Buckhead (just north of Atlanta). The competition will take place November 23rd with a welcome dinner to be held November 22nd at the Buckhead Club. If a student can value a private business or establishment they can v... alue a large public company. But the converse is not the case. Valuation requirements and data limitations make the private valuation task substantially more challenging. The U.S. Census Bureau 2011 data show nearly 99,000 firms with 100 or more employees. The Wall Street Journal reported only about 5,000 firms listed on U.S. exchanges in 2012. And for-profit (and non-profit) organizationslarge, small, public, and privateneed the services of graduates with private company valuation skills. You can help develop and refine these skills in your students by participation in the Business Valuation Challenge , the only competition of its kind. The 2019 Business Valuation Challenge is a unique opportunity for U, S. university teams of three to five students to assess the stand-alone value of an actual private company. Twenty-one valuation experts holding senior level positions in their firms act as judges during the preliminary and final rounds of the contest and provide valuable feedback to all participants. Participating accounting and finance professors and their student teams receive at no cost a real world valuation case. Only some names and locations have been changed for confidentiality. Participants also receive free access to extensive information and databases of Business Valuation Resources, LLC (BVR) that would otherwise cost each student well over $5,000. The BVR materials explain why private and smaller public companies and other private establishments and ventures usually exhibit significantly lower multiples of value than larger public firms and demonstrate how to calculate these differences. A qualified valuation expert may act as a teacher, team coach, or ...Read More