James R. Hitchner

JAMES R. HITCHNER, CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA, is Managing Director of Financial Valuation Advisors, Inc., President of The Financial Consulting Group, and CEO of Valuation Products and Services. He has thirty-seven years of valuation experience. He is editor in chief of Financial Valuation and Litigation Expert journal. Mr. Hitchner is editor/coauthor of Financial Valuation Workbook, Fourth Edition; A Consensus View Q&A Guide to Financial Valuation; Valuation for Financial Reporting: Fair Value, Business Combination, Intangible Assets, Goodwill and Impairment Analysis, Third Edition; and coauthor of PPC’s Guide to Business Valuations. He has provided testimony on valuations in numerous state and federal courts. An inductee in the AICPA Business Valuation Hall of Fame, he is one of the four members of the original AICPA Business Valuation Standards Writing Task Force, on which he served for six years, until the June 2007 official release of the standards.