Jim Hitchner CPA/ABV, ASA Managing Director The Financial Valuation Group 3340 Peachtree Road, NE Suite 1785, Tower Place Atlanta, GA  30326 Ph.  404-873-6633 Fax  404-814-3737 Email Address: jhitchner@fvginternational.com Web Site: http://www.fvginternational.com

Bio:

James R. Hitchner, CPA/ABV, ASA, is managing director of The Financial Valuation Group (FVG) in Atlanta, Georgia.  FVG is a national financial advisory services firm specializing in valuation and litigation services.  He is a founding member and current president of the Financial Consulting Group, L.C. (FCG), a national association of professional services firms providing valuation, financial and litigation consulting. 

 Mr. Hitchner has more than 28 years of professional experience, including 26 years in valuation services and two years in real estate development.  He spent over seven years with Phillips Hitchner Group and was also partner-in-charge of valuation services for the Southern Region of Coopers & Lybrand (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers), where he spent more than nine years.  He was also employed as a senior appraiser with American Appraisal Associates, in both the financial and industrial valuation groups.

 He has been recognized as a qualified expert witness and has provided testimony on valuations in numerous state and federal courts.  In the valuation area he has coauthored 20 courses, taught over 50 courses, published over 50 articles, and has made over 100 conference presentations including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the American Society of Appraisers (ASA), the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA), and numerous state CPA societies.  He has also been a faculty member teaching valuation courses for judges for the National Judicial College and the Flaschner Judicial Institute. He has also been involved in hundreds of intangible asset valuations and was also an ad hoc advisor to the FASB on its deliberations concerning SFAS 141/142 and presented a session on valuing and lifing intangible assets. 

 Mr. Hitchner is editor/coauthor of the book Financial Valuation: Applications and Models; coauthor of the book Financial Valuation Workbook, and co-author of the book Valuation for Financial Reporting: Intangible Assets, Goodwill, and Impairment Analysis—SFAS 141 and 142 all published by Wiley. Two of his books have been adopted by the AICPA for its six-day Business Valuation Essentials course and by NACVA for its three-day Advanced Business Valuation course. He is editor in chief of Financial Valuation and Litigation Expert, a bimonthly journal that presents views and tools from some of the leading experts in valuation, forensics/fraud and litigation services. He serves on the editorial board of Business Valuation Update and is a contributing editor to the AICPA’s CPA Expert.

 He is an inductee in the AICPA Business Valuation Hall of Fame and current member of the AICPA task force on business valuation standards.  Mr. Hitchner is past chairman of the business valuation committee of the Georgia Society of CPAs, past member of the AICPA business valuation subcommittee, past member of the AICPA ABV exam committee, past chairman of the ABV exam review course committee. He has a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree in business administration degree from Rider University.  He holds the AICPA Accreditation in Business Valuation (ABV) specialty designation and also is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) with the American Society of Appraisers.