Litigation Speaks

by J. Richard Claywell

Litigation Speaks is designed to assist attorneys in identifying when the expert's work product is not based on reliable principles and methods. We can provide you with information that will allow you to make better informed settlement offers and/or trial strategies. Every month we will make available to you real world examples of the misapplication of principles and methods of business valuations, economic damages and or forensic accounting.

Episodes

Business Valuation: Depreciation Expense in Excess of Capital Expenditures

6m · Published 02 Nov 17:00

Depreciation expense cannot be greater that the cost of an asset.... if it is there is too much depreciation expense which will lower the value of the company. For this episode I will be discussing the fallacy when doing a business valuation the capital expenditures and depreciation expense should not be exceed the capital expenditures in the terminal year.

Business Valuation: Coefficient of Determination (r2), Damages and Lost Profits

6m · Published 19 Oct 17:00

Not all financial data that is used for making forecast or projections has predictive ability. The incorrect use of data could have a devastating impact on the conclusions relied upon by an expert. Do you know how to determine if the data has any predictive ability? If you don’t know how don’t worry I’ve got you covered on this week’s podcast!

Business Valuation: Adding verses Subtracting Long-Term Sustainable Growth

6m · Published 05 Oct 17:00

Bias comes in many forms. If the expert produces a lower value intentionally or unintentionally it can be done through a capitalization rate. On the other hand an unintentional error can be made through a simple math error. Tune into this week’s episode to be able to identify this error.

Business Valuation: Conclusion of Value, Incorrect Weighting of Methods

9m · Published 14 Sep 17:00

Welcome to another episode of Litigation Speaks! This week, I am discussing (a business valuation report that has used a weighted average of the market, income and asset approaches). In my opinion the analysis was inaccurate and indicates bias by determining an artificially low value.

Business Valuation: Incorrect Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit

9m · Published 31 Aug 17:00

Welcome back! On this week's episode I will be discussing Misapplication of Forecasted/Projected Revenues and Operating Income which is a common mistake that is overlooked in many business valuation reports. Tune in to this episode to learn the importance of through investigation.

Business Valuations: Misapplication of Forecasted/Projected Revenues and Operating Income

8m · Published 17 Aug 17:00

Welcome to another episode of litigation speaks! This week I will discuss the foundation of forecasting revenues and operating expenses for a business valuation and detecting bias in the work product. Attorneys need to better informed of what is expected from the valuation expert when they perform a business valuation and be better able to detect bias or deliberate misrepresentation.

Business Valuation: Introduction to Symmetrical Data

3m · Published 03 Aug 17:00

Welcome back! This week I will be discussing the foundation of all business valuations and provide a roadmap of the due diligence expected from business valuation experts.

Business Valuation: Selecting Market Multiples

8m · Published 20 Jul 17:00

Welcome back! The topic of discussion is "Selecting Market Multiples" which is the base of all business valuations and provides a roadmap of the due diligence expected from business valuation experts. As the attorney you should know what is expected from the expert when they perform a valuation.

Business Valuation: Inappropriate Benchmarking

8m · Published 06 Jul 17:00

Welcome to another episode of litigation speaks This week I will be discussing the misapplication of comparing normalized or adjusted financial data to historical data to determine financial performance. Why? This is very critical information that Attorneys need to better educated in to detect anomalies created by inexperienced valuation experts that influence a valuation outcome.

Business Valuations: Benchmarking and Trending of Financial Data

6m · Published 22 Jun 17:00

This week I will be discussing financial benchmarking and the strengths and weaknesses in report analysis. You as the attorney need to understand and detect the deficiencies in business valuation reports. The better informed you are the better the outcome of your case.

Litigation Speaks has 58 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 7:38:11. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 26th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 12th, 2024 10:10.