BV557 Unlocking Hidden Value: Strategies to Maximize Your Business Potential

Webinar Description

This presentation explores practical strategies for uncovering and enhancing the underlying value drivers within a business. It will cover methods to identify operational inefficiencies, strengthen financial performance, and leverage intangible assets such as brand, customer relationships, and human capital. Attendees will learn how valuation insights can inform strategic planning, succession, and exit readiness. Real-world examples will illustrate how proactive management decisions translate into measurable increases in enterprise value.

Learning Outcomes

Upon webinar completion, the participant will be able to:

• Identify Key Valuation Drivers; 
• Locate Hidden Opportunities in a Company's operations;  
• Maximize a Company; and 
• Demonstrate real-world examples.

Course Audience

Those interested in learning how to enhance the value of the company before an exit.

Instructor Information

Nene Gianfala, ASA | Chaffe & Associates, Inc

Ms. Gianfala is a Senior Vice President of the Valuation Advisory group with over 17 years of experience in accounting, corporate finance, and business valuations. She joined Chaffe & Associates, Inc. as a Financial Analyst Intern in June 2007, and upon completion of the internship, joined the company. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Accredited in Business Valuations (ABV), and Certified in Entity and Intangible Valuations (CEIV) by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and an Accredited Senior Appraiser in Business Valuations with a specialty in Intangible Assets (ASA-BV/IA) by the American Society of Appraisers. Ms. Gianfala performs intellectual property and intangible asset valuations for purchase price allocations, impairment testing, internal intangible asset management, portfolio valuation and litigation support. She provides business valuation services to public and private companies for estate, gift and income tax planning, financial reporting, corporate planning, employee stock ownership plans and litigation.

Vanessa Brown Claiborne, ASA | Chaffe & Associates, Inc

Ms. Claiborne is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Chaffe & Associates, Inc. She is a CPA, ABV by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and has received her designation as an ASA by the American Society of Appraisers. She holds Securities Licenses 79, 24, 27, and 63. Ms. Claiborne is also AEP by the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils. She specializes in business valuation services primarily for estate and gift taxes, ESOPs, GAAP fair value reporting, financial reporting, business interruption claims, litigation support including expert testimony, exit planning, and shareholder transactions. She recently received the 2021 LCPA Women to Watch Most Experienced Leader Award. 

Continuing Education

Review of this session recording will award 1.8 CE hour(s). 

CPE credit is not awarded for this pre-recorded offering.