The new IACVA course---Valuation for Mergers & Acquisitions was given by Mr. Bill Hanlin in Seoul, at April 24, 2017. The all-day class was held at the KVA Training Center, 35 attendees sit for this course. The course aimed to give the valuator some ideas for providing valuation services to the M&A market. 

The M&A activity for privately held businesses is a growing service market for valuation professionals.  Differences in valuation for sellers and buyers were explored in depth.  The course presents subjects for the different valuation needs of sellers and buyers.

Professional valuators can provide services other than just valuation reports for buyers who are not sure how to judge the accuracy of the seller’s cash flow projections and other assumptions used to support a selling price.  These other services included a Quality of Earnings engagement which applies valuation techniques to the seller’s projections to uncover the seller’s projection adjustments as well as additional adjustments that might favor either the buyer or the seller.

Resources that are available for comprehensive valuation services, including research options and data, were reviewed with attendees.

The course was concluded with a case study of a real-live M&A engagement.

IACVA and KVA are already discussion the possibility of holding this course again before the beginning of 2018.

In addition, we will host some seminars in the following areas:

1 day seminar in Hong Kong	Valuation for Mergers & Acquisitions	April 29
1 day seminar in Indonesia	Valuation for Mergers & Acquisitions	May 3
1 day seminar in Malaysia	Approaches to Valuation and Case Study	May 8
1 day seminar in Singapore	Valuation for Mergers & Acquisitions	May 13

If you are interested to join the course, please email to cpe@iacva.org for more information.