AICPA December 2025 Business Valuation School

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Register early and save $150! Early bird pricing expires Oct. 17, 2025. Early bird savings will appear in your shopping cart.

This intensive five-day program immerses you in new theories, applications, best practices and current controversies in business valuation.

Program highlights:

• Real-World Case Study: Participate in an integrated, comprehensive, real-world case study that addresses a valuation engagement, including the industry outlook and all three approaches to value.
• ABV Credential Preparation: Earn continuing professional education that goes towards the learning requirements needed to pursue the ABV Credential and access resources to thrive in the business valuation niche.
• Comprehensive Curriculum: Cover essential topics such as valuation principles, professional standards, valuation engagement steps, research techniques, financial statement analysis, income approach, market approach, asset approach, cost of capital, market multiples, valuation adjustments, and report writing.

Why Attend?

• Learn Valuation Essentials: Deep dive into key valuation principles and theory, benefiting from a classroom-like environment that maximizes interaction with expert instructors and peers through hands-on group work, live exercises, and polling.
• Build a Solid Foundation: Gain the confidence to apply valuation techniques and establish a solid foundation in valuation knowledge before performing high-stakes valuations.

In Person Option

Business Valuation School September 8-12, 2025

Learning Objectives:

• Use the principles of valuation when completing a valuation engagement
• Identify applicable professional and valuation standards
• Identify key areas of acceptable valuation-related financial reporting standards
• Determine the steps required in a valuation engagement
• Identify relevant techniques and sources of economic and industry data
• Analyze the risks and forecast prospective financial ramifications, scenarios and key risk factors of the subject company
• Identify and apply the steps to perform an income approach to valuation
• Analyze the inputs and calculation of cost of capital
• Identify and apply the steps to perform an asset approach to valuation
• Analyze inputs into and calculation of market multiples/comparisons
• Identify and apply the steps to perform a market approach to valuation
• Apply valuation adjustments (discounts and premiums) to indications of value
• Identify standard requirements and best practices when writing valuation reports
• Identify unique issues that arise when performing valuations for estate and gift tax or divorce purposes
• Identify and apply methods used to value intangible assets

Who Should Attend:

• Practitioners with intermediate business valuation knowledge aiming to expand their firm’s valuation practice.
• Professionals considering a career shift to focus on valuation.
• Individuals in business and industry, especially within corporate finance, looking to enhance their technical valuation skills.
• Public accounting and consulting professionals involved in valuations for M&A, litigation, estate planning, and other areas.
• ABV Exam candidates.

Included with your Registration

Choose your format - print book or e-book with your school registration

You’ll receive copies of the Financial Valuation: Applications and Models book and the Financial Valuation Workbook edited by James R. Hitchner, CPA/ABV/CFF.

If selecting the print version of the books, be sure to register on or before November 3rd to ensure the texts arrive ahead of the event. If you select the eBook format, or if you register after November 3rd, the eBook redemption codes and instructions will be sent to you via email.

The Business Valuation School offers 30 CPE credits. These self-study courses, included with your purchase, offer an additional 10.5 CPE credits:

Valuation Standards
Foundations of Fair Value Measurement

Meet your presenters

Ronald D. DiMattia, CPA/ABV, CMA

Ron DiMattia founded Corporate Value Partners, Inc. to assist clients with a broad range of valuation, corporate finance and litigation matters. He has significant experience with valuations, financial analysis, forecasts/projections, acquisitions/divestitures, shareholder value measurement, and placing credit facilities. Ron is currently a sole-practitioner and previously was a senior staff member for a regional accounting firm and a Senior Manager in a “Big Four” accounting firm’s financial advisory services practice.

Ron has served on the AICPA’s ABV Credential Committee and the Business Valuations Subcommittee; he was also appointed to the National Accreditation Commission of the AICPA. Additionally, he has served as a member of the AICPA’s Governing Council. Ron has been an instructor for the AICPA’s ABV Exam Review course as well as its introductory valuation and financial analysis courses, in addition to the AICPA’s Business Valuation School.

Bethany M. Hearn, CPA/ABV/CFF
MH CPA PLLC, Champaign, IL

Bethany Hearn is a partner with MH CPA PLLC with more than 35 years of valuation experience. She specializes in valuation and litigation services for privately-held companies and attorneys. Bethany performs valuations and litigation services for a variety of purposes including merger and acquisitions, shareholder disputes, marital dissolutions, and gift and estate tax purposes. In addition to valuation services, Bethany provides business succession planning services to business owners and has served as an expert witness for valuations in shareholder disputes and marital dissolutions in Illinois, Michigan and Washington.

Bethany regularly speaks on valuation topics to professional organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“AICPA”). Bethany is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a degree in Accountancy. She is a licensed CPA in the state of Illinois and is Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF). Bethany has been active with the AICPA for several years teaching through webinars, at the national forensic and valuation conferences and the national business valuation school. Bethany has previously served on the ABV Exam Task Force and is the past chair to both the ABV Credential Committee and the FVS Executive Committee.