BVR's Industry Spotlight Series continues with "Valuing Architecture & Engineering Firms." Featuring Ian Rusk and Michael O'Brien, two appraisers with 30 years experience between them in this industry alone, this webinar focuses on the unique valuation challenges inherent in valuing architecture, engineering and landscape architecture firms.

Through their presentation, Rusk and O'Brien show how companies in this industry embody the valuation challenges of both professional services firms and construction firms, with a lack of intangible assets and an unsteady income stream, respectively. New and emerging trends of this industry are also be discussed, including new valuation opportunities presented from exit planning and ESO plans.

• Architecture & Engineering (A&E) essentials:
  • Industry make up
  • Accounting practices and key ratios
  • Firm characteristics
• Valuation techniques for A&E firms
  • Finding appropriate private and public comparable companies
  • Utilizing an uneven revenue stream in your valuation
  • How to use a firm's accounting practices to your advantage
  • Performing research for A&E valuations
• Industry trends and opportunities
  • Exit planning opportunities: A&E sales and transitions
  • ESOP structures in the A&E sector

• Learn which characteristics of A&E firms pose problems to valuation methods and how to overcome those obstacles
• Understand how the operations and accounting methods of A&E firms differ from others and what this means for your valuation
• Learn where the industry is going and how to take advantage of those opportunities