Chris Lovin, CPA - Articles

 

Chris, a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner, has diversified experience with a variety of industries and concentrates on valuation and litigation matters affecting those organizations. Chris works on complex litigation cases resulting from breach of contract, unfair competition, intellectual property infringement and shareholder disputes. Chris also works on valuation engagements for mergers and acquisition, tax reporting and planning, purchase price allocations and goodwill impairment testing.

The Impact of Market Participant Assumptions on Goodwill Impairment Testing and the Valuation of Intangible Assets for Purchase Price Allocations

At a recent Nashville Chapter of Financial Executives International meeting, the topics included the complexity involved with measuring fair value under two of the Financial Accounting Standards Boards most recent pronouncements in this area - SFAS No. 141R Business Combinations and SFAS No. 157 Fair Value Measurements. Within the January/February 2007 edition of Financial Executive, there is a table entitled - FEI CEOs Top 10 Financial Reporting Challenges. Read

By: Chris Lovin, CPA | 11/08/2008 | Accounting