Essential reading for the serious business appraiser. Now in a Second Edition, 'Quantitative Business Valuation" is an authoritative guide enabling you to value businesses from a mathematical perspective. Written by leading valuation and litigation economist Jay Abrams, this all-inclusive quantitative guide to the valuation of privately held businesses provides you with valuation theory and applications, including development of dozens of useful valuation formulas, use of regression analysis in several contexts, developing discount rates from stock market returns, adjusting for control and marketability, empirical validation of model estimates, litigation issues, and ESOP valuation. This title is an updated coverage of regression analysis. It contains extensive analysis of new academic literature on growth versus value firms. A new chapter on valuing ESOPs comparing the after-personal-tax wealth effects of selling to an ESOP versus selling with an S Corp premium to an outside party. It contains new chapters of litigation. It includes new chapter on Monte Carlo Simulation & Real Options Valuation. The clear, step-by-step explanations found in 'Quantitative Business Valuation", Second Edition make advanced quantitative techniques available to the many appraisers who are not capable of independently creating the underlying mathematical analysis.