Part 1: Business valuation engagement environment -- Business valuation legal and regulatory environment -- Business valuation professional environment -- Business valuation engagement -- Litigation service engagements -- Part 2: Terminology and notation -- International glossary of business valuation terms -- Notation systems used in this book -- Part 3: Valuation approaches and methods -- Overview of valuation approaches and methods -- Income approach: cost of capital -- Income approach: discounting method -- Income approach: capitalization method -- Market approach: guideline public company method -- Market approach: guideline merger and acquisition method -- Prior transactions, offers, and buy-sell agreements -- Adjusted (net) asset method -- Excess earnings method -- Discounts and premiums -- Reconciliation and value conclusion -- Part 4: Analysis of the company -- Financial statement analysis -- Using economic and industry data -- Site visits and interviews -- Part 5: Supporting data -- Sources of supporting data -- Part 6: Sample case -- Sample case: shannon's bull market -- Part 7: Valuations for specific purposes -- Tax-related valuations -- Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) -- Shareholder buyouts and disputes -- Marital dissolutions

1. Business enterprises -- Valuation -- United States