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JAY B. ABRAMS, ASA, CPA, MBA specializes in valuing privately-held businesses. He is the author of two books published by McGraw-Hill: Quantitative Business Valuation: A Mathematical Approach for Today's Professionals ©2001 and How to Value Your Business and Increase its Potential ©2005. The second edition of Quantitative Business Valuation is published by John Wiley & Sons. Mr. Abrams is nearly finished with a book on the valuation of S Corporations and other non-tax entities. He has published several quantitative articles in the American Society of Appraisers' Valuation Journal, Business Valuation Review and The Valuation Examiner. CFO Magazine wrote articles about both of his books and interviewed him for an article about valuation in its 20th anniversary issue in March 2005. During its existence, Mr. Abrams was a columnist on a panel of experts to answer difficult questions posed by valuation practitioners in Business Valuation Q&A, Business Valuation Resources, LLC, Portland, Oregon. He is the president of Abrams Valuation Group, Inc., a business valuation firm with offices in North Hollywood, California and New York. Mr. Abrams has invented several valuation models and approximately 150 valuation formulas. Plaintiff's economist used Abrams Valuation Group, Inc.'s Economic Components Model for the Discount for Lack of Marketability in Maris Distributing Co. v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 302 F.3d 1207 (11 th Cir. 2002). He earned his MBA degree from the University of Chicago, where he also took graduate courses in the Department of Economics. Mr. Abrams earned his B.S. degree from California State University, Northridge, where he received the Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young) Outstanding Accounting Student Award. He has spoken in a variety of different professional and public forums about valuing privately-held businesses, including: the State Bar of California, the 2001 AICPA Conference in Dallas; the 1998 Conference of the National Association of Valuation Analysts; the 1996 International Conference of the American Society of Appraisers, in Toronto; Anthony Robbins' Mastery University; and the National Center for Employee Ownership Annual Conference. Mr. Abrams has taught business valuation as continuing legal education in many law firms and seminars at the University of Southern California, University of California at San Diego Extension, the University of San Diego Law School for U.S. Tax Court Justice David Laro, USC Graduate School of Business for Professor Thomas Taulli, and California State University at Northridge business school for Professor Vincentiu Covrig. ROBERT J. JIROVEC has been helping owners sell, buy, or raise capital for their businesses since 1996. Previously, Mr. Jirovec was an executive office partner in the international accounting firm of Deloitte Touche. He is the president and majority owner of CJK Securities Inc., a licensed broker/dealer (member of FINRA) that specializes in merger, acquisition and sales of medium sized companies. Mr. Jirovec is a certified public accountant and holds several security licenses.
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