• Benefits of a business valuation
• Why would it be important for "my business"?
• What qualifications should be looked for in an expert?
• Different definitions of value, i.e. fair market value, strategic value, etc…, and why it is important to understand the definition being used.
• The concept of risk, and how risk can be hedged in a business
• Concepts of control and marketability
• Concept of reasonable compensation

Steven Kaplan, CPA/ABV, MBA

Mr. Kaplan is the principal in charge of Business Valuation, Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support services for EZKR. Prior to joining EZKR, Steve was a partner in the valuation and litigation support firm of Blaustein, Lynne & Co., LLP, where he provided business valuation, forensic accounting, collaborative practice, alternative dispute resolution, litigation support and tax services for matrimonial, estate and gift, economic damage, dissenting shareholder and merger and acquisition purposes.

He has written tax articles for the CPA Journal, appeared on the PBS “Dollar for Dollar” TV program, served as a tax editor and consultant for Thompson Publishing Co. and Harcourt Brace Professional Publishing, and lectured on a variety of tax and matrimonial dissolution topics for the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Foundation for Accounting Education.

Steve is past President of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountant’s Rockland chapter, has served on the NYS Society of CPA’s statewide Professional Ethics Committee, and is also past Co-Chair of the NYS Society of Certified Public Accountant’s Westchester Chapter Litigation Support Committee. He was also a member of Representative Benjamin Gilman’s Economic Advisory Council, and served as an advisory board member for the North Rockland High School Academy of Finance. Steve currently serves on the Blind Brook – Rye School District Board of Education and on the Board of Directors of the multi-disciplinary New York Association of Collaborative Professionals. Previously, Steve has served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board and been a contributing author for Aspen Publishing’s CPA Litigation Service Counselor and for National Litigation Consultants’ Review.