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Dr. Joel DiCicco is a CPA with over 30 years of practitioner experience in finance, taxation, and accounting/auditing. For approximately 20 years, Joel worked for the IRS with increasingly responsible jobs leading up to his position as Territory Manager for Financial Products. In this role, he worked and supervised the most complex and sophisticated tax structuring and valuation issues, utilizing many of the latest forensic techniques applied in tracking the true substance of transactions. He also served on details as Territory Manager for both Global High Wealth and Large Business Employment Taxes. Dr. DiCicco has been a faculty member at Florida Atlantic University for more than 15 years and is now a full-time instructor for the Graduate Executive MBA program. Over these years, he has taught courses in accounting, finance, and taxation. In addition, Joel lectures on Financial Risk Management and Derivatives, as well as Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation, for the Master of Science in Finance program. He is also the Co-Founder and a Principal Consultant of the Center for International Business Valuation, which conducts training programs in valuation and data analysis. Dr. DiCicco earned his PhD in Public Administration focusing on Budgeting and Finance, and has both a master’s in taxation and an MBA in finance. Dr. DiCicco holds credentials in valuation from both the International Society of Business Appraisers (ISBA) and the IACVS.
Accounting and Intangibles
Hi everyone, Hope this blog finds you all doing well. Once again, we see the traditional “brick and mortar” accounting valuation techniques not reflecting what the market sees or pays. Companies that haven’t produced a profit have been selling for astronomical...
Fair Value of Financial Instruments Training program
Hi everyone, Hope this blog finds you doing great. For this particular blog, I am very excited to discuss the launch in October at the IVSC World Conference in Dubai, the advanced training program in fair value of financial instruments. This training program is...
Derivatives and Risk
Hi everyone, Hope this blog finds you doing great. A lot going on in the field of valuation of derivatives. In a recent survey by the AICPA, there is much concern about risks inherent in derivatives and the approaches used to value these constructs. For example,...
Don’t use courts as incubators for new BV approaches!!
Hi everyone, Hope all is well considering the global economy’s downturn as a result of the Coronavirus. Yet, business activity goes on along with many court cases. Here is a case worth briefly talking about. In the case of Manichean Capital, LLC v....
Non-Qualified Mortgages”- Here we go again!!
Hi everyone, In this month’s blog, once again we are seeing an emergence of a new type of financial instrument, called the “Non-Qualified Mortgage” with the same high-risk characteristics as sub-prime mortgages. Here we go again!! What is most disconcerting is...
The Magic of PE 15
Hi everyone, Hope all is well. Recently, a very interesting article about an expeditious approach to determine the fair value of stock was published. I thought about it for a while and said to myself, it is worth summarizing for this month’s blog. ...
ICVS Credential in Advanced Studies of Financial Instruments.
Hi everyone, The Conference held in Dubai on October 21st was a great success!! The International Association of Certified Valuation Specialists (IACVS) announced the launching of the Advanced Studies in Financial Instruments. This announcement were heard by the...
PCAOB New Comments on Financial Instruments
Hi everyone, As always, hope all is going great. I will continue where we left off regarding the new PCAOB’s staff guidance on the auditing the fair value of financial instruments. This second portion of the blog is dealing with “pricing services.” According to...
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