Resources for valuation practitioners include methodological guidance, market-data documentation, research, and secure platform access for evaluating financial performance, liquidity, blockage, volatility, and DLOM. AbbottModelDLOM organizes these materials around a consistent public-company reference cohort and a transparent analytical workflow.
The materials support reviewable analysis and professional judgment. They do not replace assignment-specific investigation, selection of appropriate inputs, documentation, reconciliation, or responsibility for the final valuation conclusion.
Platform Resources for Valuation Practitioners
Review the platform’s connected workflow, analytical components, and intended professional applications.
User Guide
A quick walk through on using the platform.
Methodology Library
The methodology library documents the platform’s principal analytical components, including reference-cohort formation, performance evaluation, liquidity and total delay, volatility, DLOM models, Mandelbaum analysis, data coverage, analytical transparency, and appropriate professional use.
Data Coverage
Review the markets, historical periods, issuer-quarter observations, daily trading observations, and financial information represented in the platform’s database.
Research and Publications
Explore research addressing marketability, liquidity, blockage, exchange-option models, information asymmetry, company size, growth, cost of capital, and other valuation topics.
Related peer-reviewed research includes “Cost of Illiquidity: Marketability and Liquidity Discounts in a Margrabe Exchange Option Framework,” published in the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research.
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Using Resources for Valuation Practitioners
Users may begin with the Platform Overview to understand the connected workflow. The Methodology Library then documents cohort formation, financial comparison, liquidity, volatility, DLOM models, Mandelbaum analysis, transparency, and appropriate use. Data Coverage describes the available markets, periods, and observations, while Research and Publications provides theoretical and empirical background.
Together, these sections help users move from general orientation to detailed methodological support without treating any platform output as an automatic valuation conclusion.
Platform Access
Trial accounts provide access to the calculator and full analytical platform. Export functionality is not currently enabled. When paid access is introduced, exporting results will be reserved for eligible paid accounts.
Professional Use of Resources for Valuation Practitioners
These resources for valuation practitioners provide market-based evidence and analytical guidance. They do not replace the valuation professional’s investigation, selection of supportable inputs, evaluation of the subject interest, documentation, reconciliation, or final conclusion.
Questions about the methodology, research foundation, or platform may be directed through the Contact page.