Canna Business Valuation Methods and Metrics

Canna Business Valuation Methods and Metrics

• Brief Cannabis Primer
• Overview of financial and business analysis of cannabis companies
• What kinds of risk are cannabis companies exposed to and how does that impact investors in cannabis companies
• Ownership interest options in the cannabis industry
• Financial forecasting in a new, uncertain and rapidly growing industry
• Valuing both Plant-Touching and Ancillary cannabis companies
• Valuation methods useful for cannabis company valuation:
  • Income Approach – Discounted Cash Flow
  • Market Approach – Public and Private Company Acquisitions
  • Cost Approach – Net Asset Value Method
• Intangible assets in a cannabis company

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ABOUT THE GUEST SPEAKER: Vanita Spaulding

Vanita Spaulding is a Managing Director at Cogent Valuation, a national valuation firm with offices in Woodland Hills, San Francisco and Costa Mesa. She has more than 30 years of valuation experience providing valuation services to clients in the areas of litigation support, financial reporting, and estate planning and tax valuation. Vanita has a diverse background in a myriad of valuation projects including litigation support, federal estate tax and gift tax, allocation of purchase price ASC805 and impairment testing ASC350, common stock valuation and share-based compensation valuation IRC 409A and ASC718, fairness and solvency opinions, intellectual property analyses, pre-acquisition financing, merger and acquisition pricing, ESOP formation and compliance. See page 3 for a partial list of Cannabis litigation and consulting projects and non-cannabis litigation support projects relating to shareholder disputes, marital and partnership dissolution, breach of contract, lost profits, personal injury losses, and eminent domain. She is qualified as an expert to perform litigation support services and has appeared as an expert witness before the Superior Courts of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties, as well as the American Arbitration Association. She has performed litigation and mediation services in Colorado.