What is a Certified Value Growth Advisor?

Most private middle-market companies have an opportunity to double their values over a three to five year period. We teach a disciplined, methodical approach to unlock this value and position yourself as the engagement quarterback.

“It’s amazing how many key takeaways there were in helping how to rethink the way to conduct your business.” – Brent Johnstone, Founder, Managing Partner, Quarry Capital and Granite Analytics

Regain the Driver's Seat

Over the course of the program, you'll learn the best practices across eight functional categories that drive business valuation - planning, leadership, sales, marketing, people, operations, finance, and legal.

Learn from the subject matter experts below, along with special modules on corporate finance, strategic planning, business development, and practice management.

A live case study ties the program together and an online exam completes it.

Who should attend? CPAs, M&A Advisors, Turnaround Consultants, Exit Planners, Business Valuators,  Business Consultants, Wealth Managers, Financial Planners, Business Owners, and Leadership Teams.

After completing the CVGA® program, you will be able to:

• Diagnose a company’s strengths and weaknesses across the eight categories and establish its overall quality and risk profiles
• Calculate a company’s cost of capital utilizing its quality and risk profiles and use it to determine the company’s intrinsic value
• Prescribe a program of continuous improvement for a company and estimate the impact on the company’s intrinsic value for any contemplated improvement initiative
• Facilitate a strategic planning program for a company’s management team to build the management team’s strategic planning competency while developing a short-term and long-term strategic and tactical plan

Program level: Intermediate       Recommended CPE credit: 40 hours

Fields of Study: Accounting (2.4 hours), Business Law (2.4 hours), Finance (4.8 hours), Management Services (4.8 hours), Specialized Knowledge (12 hours), Personnel/Human Resources (2.4 hours), Production (2.4 hours), Business Management & Organization (2.4 hours), Communications & Marketing (6.6 hours)

Corporate Value Metrics, LLC, is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education (CPE) on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: https://www.nasbaregistry.org.