Business Valuation

Foreword

Thirty-five years ago, NACVA’s subsequent founders created and launched a business valuation training course titled Business Valuations: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Theory. Initially, their training was promoted to the CPA community, as they believed this community was underserved in this discipline. They were right, and the course was an instant success. Shortly thereafter, they started the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA), which also gained traction very quickly given its focus and support were targeted to the CPA community. In the late 1990s, NACVA opened its doors to non-CPAs, recognizing that the pursuit of business valuations was of interest to practitioners in many areas of expertise, not just accounting. This included people from finance, economics, and business management. Subsequently, we saw interest from people in engineering disciplines and, more recently, from the sciences.

Over the years, NACVA has trained over 40,000 professionals and certified over 11,000 with their Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) credential, which is dually accredited by the internationally recognized National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA), a division of the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE), and the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB), a wholly owned subsidiary of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). NACVA has flourished over the years, and the cornerstone of its success can be attributed to its foundational ...