Analyzing Complex Appraisals for Business Professionals

by Pratt, Shannon; Lifflander, John

• ISBN13: 9780071812931
• ISBN10: 0071812938
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-07-27
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Everything You Need to Know About Appraisals—in One Essential Guide

A must-have resource for business professionals who aren’t appraising experts, this easy-to-understand guidebook provides the ultimate crash course for evaluating a wide range of properties and enterprises, including:

• Land and Home Appraisals
• Commercial Appraisals
• Industrial Building Appraisals
• Machinery and Equipment Appraisals
• Asset, Income, and Market Values

Written by two experts in the field, it’s the perfect one-stop guide for analyzing appraisals. Filled with detailed instructions and invaluable insider’s advice, the book is designed to make the appraising process as clear and simple as possible—so you can analyze and assess the value of any commercial, business, or industrial property…and make the most of every investment opportunity.

“Red Flag” warning signs help you spot typical errors in appraisals

Table of Contents

Section 1 Real Estate and Machinery and Equipment Appraisals
Chapter 1 Introduction to Appraisal Theory and Terms
Chapter 2 Analyzing the Single-Family Residential Appraisal
Chapter 3 Analyzing the Land Appraisal
Chapter 4 Wetlands, Contaminated Property, and Eminent Domain Land Appraisals
Chapter 5 Analyzing the Commercial Appraisal
Chapter 6 Commercial Appraisal Excerpts
Chapter 7 Analyzing the Industrial Building Appraisal
Chapter 8 Industrial Building Appraisal Excerpts
Chapter 9 Analyzing the Machinery and Equipment Appraisal
Chapter 10 Machinery and Equipment Appraisal Excerpts
Chapter 11 How Government Policies Can Affect Property Values
Chapter 12 USPAP: The Rules Under Which Appraisers Work
Section 2 Business Valuations
Chapter 13 Defining Value in the Relevant Context: Definitions of Value
Chapter 14 Overview of Approaches, Methods, Procedures, and Terminology
Chapter 15 The Income Approach
Chapter 16 The Market Approach
Chapter 17 The Asset-Based Approach
Chapter 18 Rules of Thumb
Chapter 19 Valuations for Federal Tax Matters
Chapter 20 Shareholder and Partner Disputes
Chapter 21 Marital Dissolution Valuations
Chapter 22 Employee Stock Ownership Plans
Chapter 23 Analyzing the Business Appraisal: Example of an Appraisal of an Operating Company with Significant Real Assets
Notes
Index