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Adam Smith

Managing Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Adam is a Managing Director with over 20 years of valuation experience. He has performed valuations of businesses, business interests, intangible assets, economic damages, derivatives, and lost profits. His experience includes preparing valuations for a wide range of purposes including financial reporting, litigation support, corporate planning and consulting, mergers and acquisitions, estate and gift tax reporting, and employee stock ownership plans.

From 2013 to 2015, Adam served as a practice fellow at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) specializing in fair value issues. In that role, he worked on projects with the FASB, the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF), the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF), the Private Company Council (PCC), and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and performed extensive outreach with regulators, other standards setters, and accounting and valuation professional organizations.

From 2015 to 2017, Adam was the Technical Director of Business Valuation Standards for the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC) and worked with the IVSC Standards Board to develop an updated and improved version of the International Valuation Standards. In his position, Adam worked with other technical staff to write two new chapters and revise the existing chapters of the International Valuation Standards. Publication of the revised standards was completed in January 2017.


Appearances

  • Thumbnail for Business Combination Guide
    Identification
    FVC2237
    Date
    November 15, 2022
    The presenters will discuss recent release for comments of draft AICPA Accounting and Valuation Guide, _Business Combinations_. The presenters will also discuss common mistakes observed in practice in valuations performed for business combinations purposes, how to identify and rectify them…

    Speakers

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    Managing Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers
    Speaker Image for Gary Roland
    Gary Roland, CPA, ABV, CFA
    Managing Director - Office of Professional Practice, Kroll
    Speaker Image for Mark Edwards
    Mark Edwards, CPA, ABV, CFA
    Partner, Valuation Services, Grant Thornton LLP
    Speaker Image for Frederik Bort
    Managing Director, KPMG LLP
    $49
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Regulatory Insights into the Valuation Industry
    Identification
    FVC2331
    Date
    November 7, 2023
    This panel brings together former senior management level veteran financial regulators now employed in the private sector, as well experienced valuation experts…

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Scott Taub
    Managing Director, Financial Reporting Advisors LLC
    Speaker Image for Carla Nunes
    Carla S. Nunes, CFA, ABV
    Managing Director, Kroll
    Speaker Image for Adam Smith
    Managing Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers
    $49
    Standard Price

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