Business Valuation Services

Valuation services

Preserve and Increase Value

As an owner, you’ve devoted substantial time and resources to make your business more valuable. Do you know how much your business is worth?

Bennett Thrasher’s Valuation team works with companies in a wide range of industries and with high net worth individuals. Not only can we help you determine the value of your business, but we can help preserve your company’s worth and your family’s wealth.

Team Leaders

Bennett Thrasher believes in serving our clients by building trust through insight and involvement.


If you need a valuation for tax planning and compliance, financial reporting or transaction support, we can help. Contact Gina Miller or Chris Anderson to schedule a consultation.

Planning & Compliance

A business valuation can be a critical component of estate and income tax planning. For example, you may need a business valuation if you want to:

  • Transfer shares of the business to family members
  • Award stock options to a valued employee
  • Sell your business
  • Transition to an ESOP
  • Acquire or merge with another entity
  • Raise capital

To achieve your objectives, you need a team of experienced professionals at your side who not only understand the purpose behind those transactions but also see the bigger picture. Bennett Thrasher offers planning and compliance services related to:

  • Tax valuation services, including estate, gift, and trust tax planning and compliance
  • Transaction valuation preparation and execution
  • Charitable contribution planning
  • Deferred compensation analyses, including stock options, warrants, and other equity-based instruments
  • Merger and acquisition transactions
  • S corporation conversion analyses
  • Cost segmentation
  • Detailed financial modeling and feasibility analyses
  • Capital structure advice
  • Strategic alternatives development
  • Purchase price allocation

Financial Reporting

As your business grows and your capital structure gets more complex, you’ll be expected to meet new compliance requirements. It’s good to have support from professionals who understand the intricacies of valuation and financial statement presentation.

Our professionals draw on years of experience and specialized industry knowledge to provide objective, independent financial reporting valuations for businesses of all sizes. We can fulfill your financial reporting valuation needs by:

  • Identifying tangible and intangible assets
  • Identifying and measuring transaction purchase price consideration
  • Allocating a purchase price to all acquired assets and liabilities, including intangible assets
  • Analyzing impairment of goodwill and long-lived/indefinite-lived intangible assets
  • Determining complex capital structure equity allocations, including applying current value, option pricing, forward-looking, hybrid, and other recommended methods
  • Valuing stock options, warrants, and other equity compensation

Litigation Support

When you’re embroiled in a family or business litigation matter, avoiding a drawn-out dispute is a high priority. Achieving a quick resolution — ideally before the matter enters the courtroom — is possible, but it requires a clear and complete understanding of the financial issues at play.

Bennett Thrasher’s Valuation professionals in our Litigation Support team have many years of experience guiding clients through these matters by:

  • Making sense of complex financial positions
  • Providing advice and testimony inside and outside the courtroom
  • Mediating familial disputes
  • Developing analyses, financial forecasts, and reports that would be helpful at trial
  • Providing recommendations for moving through the dispute efficiently

Our team’s goal is for you to feel confident that we settled on the best possible resolution for you, your family, and your business.

Expert Opinions

Having the right expert witness adds credibility to your case and ensures you’re prepared for trial. Drawing upon our experience, Bennett Thrasher’s professionals can provide insight that determines the financial impact of business activities relevant to the case.

Areas we specialize in include:

  • Economic loss and damage assessments
  • Estate and gift tax valuation disputes
  • Shareholder disputes and dissenter’s rights cases
  • Business dissolutions
  • Accounting and cost issues
  • Regulatory and compliance issues
  • Marital dissolutions
  • Antitrust cases
  • Contract disputes
  • Alter ego tests
  • Fraudulent conveyance and solvency testing

Planning & Compliance

A business valuation can be a critical component of estate and income tax planning. For example, you may need a business valuation if you want to:

  • Transfer shares of the business to family members
  • Award stock options to a valued employee
  • Sell your business
  • Transition to an ESOP
  • Acquire or merge with another entity
  • Raise capital

To achieve your objectives, you need a team of experienced professionals at your side who not only understand the purpose behind those transactions but also see the bigger picture. Bennett Thrasher offers planning and compliance services related to:

  • Tax valuation services, including estate, gift, and trust tax planning and compliance
  • Transaction valuation preparation and execution
  • Charitable contribution planning
  • Deferred compensation analyses, including stock options, warrants, and other equity-based instruments
  • Merger and acquisition transactions
  • S corporation conversion analyses
  • Cost segmentation
  • Detailed financial modeling and feasibility analyses
  • Capital structure advice
  • Strategic alternatives development
  • Purchase price allocation

Financial Reporting

As your business grows and your capital structure gets more complex, you’ll be expected to meet new compliance requirements. It’s good to have support from professionals who understand the intricacies of valuation and financial statement presentation.

Our professionals draw on years of experience and specialized industry knowledge to provide objective, independent financial reporting valuations for businesses of all sizes. We can fulfill your financial reporting valuation needs by:

  • Identifying tangible and intangible assets
  • Identifying and measuring transaction purchase price consideration
  • Allocating a purchase price to all acquired assets and liabilities, including intangible assets
  • Analyzing impairment of goodwill and long-lived/indefinite-lived intangible assets
  • Determining complex capital structure equity allocations, including applying current value, option pricing, forward-looking, hybrid, and other recommended methods
  • Valuing stock options, warrants, and other equity compensation

Litigation Support

When you’re embroiled in a family or business litigation matter, avoiding a drawn-out dispute is a high priority. Achieving a quick resolution — ideally before the matter enters the courtroom — is possible, but it requires a clear and complete understanding of the financial issues at play.

Bennett Thrasher’s Valuation professionals in our Litigation Support team have many years of experience guiding clients through these matters by:

  • Making sense of complex financial positions
  • Providing advice and testimony inside and outside the courtroom
  • Mediating familial disputes
  • Developing analyses, financial forecasts, and reports that would be helpful at trial
  • Providing recommendations for moving through the dispute efficiently

Our team’s goal is for you to feel confident that we settled on the best possible resolution for you, your family, and your business.

Expert Opinions

Having the right expert witness adds credibility to your case and ensures you’re prepared for trial. Drawing upon our experience, Bennett Thrasher’s professionals can provide insight that determines the financial impact of business activities relevant to the case.

Areas we specialize in include:

  • Economic loss and damage assessments
  • Estate and gift tax valuation disputes
  • Shareholder disputes and dissenter’s rights cases
  • Business dissolutions
  • Accounting and cost issues
  • Regulatory and compliance issues
  • Marital dissolutions
  • Antitrust cases
  • Contract disputes
  • Alter ego tests
  • Fraudulent conveyance and solvency testing

Trusted by Many

“The transfer pricing audit ended after the German tax authorities reviewed our Local File. It might have been the best money I have ever spent.” – Feedback from Finance Director of Irish Multinational in Healthcare Industry following a transfer pricing audit in Germany
“Ben and his staff have been fantastic. They have been very professional and extremely patient as we navigate through our transaction and the planning process.”

CFO of U.S.-based subsidiary of a Swiss Multinational in the Technology Industry

“We are incredibly grateful for the partnership, support and collaboration of you and your team…Your professionalism and collaboration truly made the difference for the Company, our teams and our leaders.”

Chief Compliance Officer for a Statewide Health Care Organization

“As always, we very much appreciate your hard work and the hard work of the entire BT team.”

SVP & Chief Compliance Officer of a Global Distribution Company

“In the past, I have used two of the top four national accounting firms for advice. I have found Jeff Call’s firm Bennett Thrasher, the most responsive, always available and very, very helpful. Once I’m not around, I’m certain my state trustee will continue to rely on Jeff’s firm.”

Guy Millner, Chairman Assurance, America, Corporation, Atlanta

“Bennett Thrasher provided exceptional second mile audit services for Trilith Studios. Their team was thorough, knowledgeable, demonstrated a high level of attention to detail and provided clear communication throughout the entire process. We highly appreciated their collaboration and the professional service they provided throughout the entire audit process.”

Ginny Hernandez, Trilith Studios

“Just when you have self-assessed your company to possibly be the worst client ever, the Staff at Bennett Thrasher make you feel like you are their most important and beloved client. That ability is an attribute you don’t see in many accounting firms.”

Dennis W. Jackson, EVP-Finance, M3, LLC

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