Reporting Writing: Review and Analysis (IBA: 1010)
Program Sponsor: The Institute of Business Appraisers (IBA)

This course is designed and intended to teach students how to write good appraisal reports. The course is presented as a seminar – where students actively participate in discussions on how to present information, data, and valuation results in written form. Students are provided with examples of how to organize appraisal reports, how to develop a table of contents, how to present mathematical models and statistical information using text, graphs, and charts, and in use of headings, outlines, and terminal digit organization. During the course of the seminar, students will review other students’ appraisal reports, and discuss in study groups the various positive and negative aspects of many report formats. Students are required to bring to the seminar, copies of their own appraisal reports and are invited to have them reviewed by the instructor and other students, and to receive feedback on their work product in a constructive and helpful way. The course materials cover comprehensive requirements for appraisal reports, use of grammar, alternative reporting formats, both good and bad examples of report language, and present solutions for presenting technical information in a readable and understandable form. The course was developed by the Co-Chairman of the IBA Qualifications Review Committee as a result of reviewing thousands of appraisal reports and CBA demonstration reports, and is intended to share with students the information gleaned form that experience. Applicants for the CBA and AIBA designations will find the course helpful in producing their demonstration reports.

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