2015 Valuation Handbook: Guide to Cost of Capital (Wiley Finance) - Hardcover

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Roger J. Grabowski, Managing Director of Duff & Phelps LLC, is a major speaker at conferences and has testified in court as an expert witness on the value of closely held businesses and business interests, matters of solvency, valuation and amortization of intangible assets and other valuation issues. He testified in the Northern Trust case, the first U.S. Tax Court decision that adopted the discounted cash flow method to value the stock of a closely-held business with the discount rate based on the capital asset pricing model. Roger authors the annual Duff & Phelps' Risk Premium Report.

James P. Harrington, Director in the Office of Professional Practice at Duff & Phelps, is an accomplished financial writer and analyst. He provides technical support on client engagements involving cost of capital and business valuation matters, and leads efforts for development of Duff & Phelps' studies, surveys, online content and tools, and internal models. He is also the co-developer of the online Duff & Phelps Risk Premium Calculator, which is based on the data and methodology of the Duff & Phelps Risk Premium Report. Prior to joining Duff & Phelps, Harrington was the Director of Valuation Research in Morningstar's Financial Communications Business, leading the group that produces the widely used and cited Ibbotson SBBI Valuation Yearbook and Ibbotson SBBI Classic Yearbook, the Ibbotson Cost of Capital Yearbook, the Ibbotson Beta Book, and various international and domestic reports. Prior to Morningstar, he was a product manager in the financial communications group at Ibbotson Associates. Before that, he was a bond and bond portfolio analyst, and also worked at the Chicago Board of Trade in the bond options pit for a filling group. Carla Nunes, Director in the Office of Professional Practice of Duff & Phelps LLC, provides firmwide technical guidance on a variety of valuation, financial and tax reporting issues. She has directed multiple valuation assignments for a wide range of industries, including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, vitamin retail, specialty chemicals, industrial manufacturing, and gaming and hospitality. Nunes has also help positions with Standard Y Poor's (Manager), PricewaterhouseCoopers (Senior Associate), and Caixa Geral de Depositos (Assistant Manager).