Calculating Lost Profits – Business Valuation and Forensic & Litigation Services Practice Aid 06-4

Authored by recognized specialists, this Practice Aid discusses roles the CPA may be asked to take in a lost profits damage analysis, the professional standards applicable to those services, and the basic principles and guidelines for preparing lost profit damages analyses. As each engagement is unique, these principles and guidelines must be evaluated and adapted to the facts and circumstances that affect the engagement.

What the Calculating Lost Profits Practice Aid offers you:

• Basic principles and guidelines for preparing a lost profits damage analyses including the applicable professional standards
• A discussion of the roles the practitioner may be asked to take in a lost profits damage analysis
• Valuable information regarding alternative measures to calculating lost profits and specialized damage areas including newly established businesses, intellectual property, antitrust and securities fraud
• An overview of case law, evidentiary standards, legal principles of proving damages, estimating revenues and costs, financial discounting to present value and more

The Appendixes also include a list of pertinent cases and lost profit calculation resources that will be very helpful to the practitioner.

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This publication has not been updated for pronouncements issued since the date of this publication in 2006.

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