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One of
NACVA’s missions is to seek ways to get members involved in the
Association, and for many good reasons. One, we believe that for many
initiatives we undertake, you are the best qualified professionals to
support us. Two, we know both intuitively and from 18 years of
experience, that your involvement in the Association is a way to
enhance your standing in the profession, and ultimately your career.
This is achieved by getting your name known within the community;
building a network of confidants and mentors that you meet through
your participation (which for many members has lead to referrals);
learning new ideas for marketing and practice development from those
with whom you associate in teleconferences and other encounters;
staying plugged in to new industry thinking and developments; and,
building a stronger curriculum vitae by demonstrating your commitment
to your discipline. Sometimes involvement in NACVA leads to
opportunities to earn compensation, but not always. But in all cases
there are benefits, the greatest of which are the intangible ones
cited above. And in all cases, your involvement in NACVA is a win/win
relationship for the all of us. Here is what is available, and
please respond no later than MAY 31, 2009.
ONE
NACVA is forming a new Board—the Educational Quality Assurance
Board—whose role, in short, will be to help NACVA and the Consultants’
Training Institute (CTI) assure that its training and training
materials meet the highest of quality and technical content standards.
Board members receive prestige and a generous package of benefits
found in The Association brochure on our website. It is
anticipated that this Board will have one hour monthly meetings, but
will carry additional responsibilities that might constitute another
15–20 hours per year, which, in part, will be overseeing and managing
NACVA’s 90-person Course Review Committee, keeping them on a schedule
and adhering to Board policies in reviewing our curriculum. Initial
terms will be assigned from one to three years by NACVA’s Executive
Advisory Board (EAB). Applicants should have a solid background in any
or all of these areas: academia, training development, editing,
quality control, specialization in a subfield of business valuation,
litigation, or financial forensics education. If you are interested in
participating in this groundbreaking opportunity, please e-mail your
curriculum vitae, specific qualifications, background, and a brief
statement regarding your interest to the incoming EAB Chair, Lari
Masten at
lari@mastenvaluation.com. Please put “EQAB Candidate” in the
subject line.
TWO
NACVA and its affiliate partner, the International Association of
Consultants, Valuators and Analysts (IACVA), are working together to
adapt our five-day CVA/AVA credentialing training for collegiate use
in finance, accounting, and graduate programs throughout the world.
Parts of our training are used currently by members within academia in
the U.S. IACVA has written their new 2009 business valuation training
materials from the ground up, supplemented with books from widely
known authors/publishers, to work within universities in Europe and
Asia, as well as in non-U.S. public seminars of CVA candidates. We are
looking for NACVA members (with collegiate affiliations) who are
interested in assisting us on two levels. One is advising, assisting,
reviewing, and working in one or more capacities to help us to finish
adapting the U.S. training materials for academic use, working with
IACVA, with the intention that ultimately our materials will be
consistent worldwide in both the academic realm and in public
offerings of our curriculum. Two is to help us identify higher-level
institutions that would be interested in offering this type of
education for undergraduate, graduate, and/or executive education
programs. Applicants should have an academic affiliation, and if
interested, be willing to teach this education at subscribing
institutions. If you are interested in participating in this global
initiative, please e-mail NACVA Ambassadors, Bob Brackett at
robert@crandall-brackett.com, or Laura Tindall at
ljt@ljtindall.com, and attach
your curriculum vitae.
THREE
This summer, NACVA plans to rollout with its first member section for
members who have, or are pursuing, a practice emphasis in healthcare.
The NACVA Healthcare Practice Group (HPG) already has close to 200
members waiting in line for rollout, 14 of whom have volunteered to be
on the HPG Advisory Committee, all of whom are well-known industry
leaders. (Annual dues to belong to the HPG are initially slated at
$100.) And we are looking for one more Advisory Committee member who
is someone with Long Term Care Facility (LTCF) experience to co-chair
the Long Term Care Sub-Group for the HPG.
The HPG LTCF Sub-Group has been created to address issues facing
valuators and consultants who represent physicians and organizations
involved in providing Long Term care and to help facilitate useful
practice tips through online discussions, case summaries, and topical
analyses.
One of the first steps in the HPG’s organizational process was the
formation of an Advisory Committee. To complete it, the Committee is
seeking an interested candidate to co-chair the LTCF Sub-Group. At
present, we envision that this position may require a commitment of
15–20 hours per annum. You will join 12 other healthcare specialty
co-chairs (each representing one or more of 17 areas of healthcare
specialty) with the expressed purpose for this position to complement
the other chairs in assisting HPG members by coordinating discussion
of issues and the sharing of information pertaining to the entire
spectrum of long term care. It includes helping to facilitate matters
within the HPG relating to the regulation, operation, and valuation of
all types of long term care facilities. A LTCF, as used herein,
includes those facilities that offer a variety of services, which help
meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with chronic
illness or disability that typically provide rehabilitative,
restorative and/or ongoing skilled nursing care to patients or
residents in need of assistance with daily living activities. These
include, but are not limited to, Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) and
Skilled Nursing Units (SNU) as well as other facilities that provide
skilled nursing services, intermediate and custodial care. The Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimate that about nine
million men and women over the age of 65 in the U.S. need long-term
care at present. By 2020, 12 million older Americans will need long
term care.
To offer your services to NACVA and to take an active leadership role
in this sub-specialty area of healthcare, by agreeing to co-chair this
HPG sub-group, please e-mail the HPG Chair, Greg Reardon, at
GTR@thereardongroup.com,
with a description of your experience in this field.
FOUR
With NACVA now having its CVA and AVA designations accredited by the
National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) (the only valuation
credentials to have achieved this status), NACVA is required under
NCCA standards to build a second CVA/AVA Multiple-Choice (MC)
proctored exam that ultimately must be statistically equated to the
first MC exam. The building of this second exam will be under the
oversight of NACVA’s Valuation Credentialing Board (VCB) working with
our 40-person Exam and Grading Committee (EGC). We are in need of two
to five individuals (Contractors) with experience in exam development
to facilitate and manage the 40-person EGC in building this new exam.
Most likely, qualified candidates are involved to some degree in
academia. There will be a compensation package which will vary
depending on how many contractors we hire, which could be two to five,
i.e., if we recruit five contractors, there will be less work for
each, versus if we hire only two. We hope to begin work on this
project in June 2009 and have it completed by fall. If you are
interested in helping NACVA maintain its position as a global leader
in valuation education and certification, please e-mail Parnell Black
at parnell1@nacva.com, with a
brief explanation of your qualifications, and attach your curriculum
vitae.
Sincerely,
—Parnell Black
Chief Executive Officer
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