Issues Relating to Goodwill Valuation

Valuation Issues: Law Practices and Goodwill

From an economic perspective, law practices (as business entities) generally have no goodwill. Quality and value of service result from the skill, experience and reputation of the individual practitioners. Clients seek the services of particular attorneys, not their firms. As an illustration, clients would not be indifferent to paying a certain substantial fee for the services of a nationally r...

Goodwill Valuation Approaches, Methods, and Procedures

Financial advisers are often asked to value goodwill within a corporate transaction environment. These goodwill valuations may be performed in the due diligence phase of the corporate transaction for transaction pricing and structuring purposes. These goodwill valuations may be performed in the consummation phase of the corporate transaction—as part of the preparation of a transaction fairness ...

Certification Issues Relating to ABDR

New tactical air vehicles are normally designed to be ballistically survivable on the modern battlefield by incorporating active and passive signature reduction and ballistic damage tolerance features. A large percentage of these air vehicles return from combat missions with various levels of combat damage or may suffer from ballistic threads while on ground. Maximum air vehicle fleet availabil...

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing issues relating to EARSS

Legal and ethical issues relating to AIDS.

The worldwide AIDS epidemic has posed an extraordinary array of ethical and legal challenges. The work presented here reviews three issues at the heart of the matter: discrimination against HIV-infected people, the limits of confidentiality, and the exercise of coercive government powers to limit spread of the disease. Because the authors are most familiar with the U.S. experience, the review d...