Valuation Expert
Business valuation combines several business disciplines and requires knowledge in each of them: financial reporting and controlling, tax and corporate law, corporate finance and capital markets, the construction of valuation models, and project management. As a German Certified Public Accountant, Tax Consultant and Certified Valuation Analyst, Andreas Creutzmann demonstrates his competence in these fields.
… [the result] that the expert determined and explained as plausibly as convincingly.“
Specialised in business valuation
Andreas Creutzmann has been valuing companies since 1992, across sectors and in both size ranges: internationally active groups and mid-sized companies. Valuation subjects include chemical companies, banks, insurers, telecommunications companies, trading and industrial companies, and real estate companies.
Court-appointed expert
As a court-appointed expert Andreas Creutzmann assists the presiding judges of major regional and higher regional courts in appraisal proceedings under German stock corporation law. The proceedings concern the determination of adequate cash compensation for minority shareholders, for example in squeeze-out proceedings or on conclusion of a domination and profit transfer agreement. His clients include a large number of regional and higher regional courts.
„Take the BASF share. The price you can read off second by second is the price. It does not tell you what the company is worth. We determine value using valuation methods, for example discounted cash flow or the capitalised earnings method.“
Andreas Creutzmann
Founder of EACVA e.V.
Andreas Creutzmann founded EACVA e.V. in 2005, the first professional association for business valuers in the German-speaking region.
At the centre is the Certified Valuation Analyst, a qualification: those who pass the two-part examination demonstrate practical and theoretical knowledge in the valuation of companies and intangible assets. The association is interdisciplinary and qualifies not only public accountants but also tax consultants, lawyers, in-house valuers and M&A professionals. Today EACVA has some 1,300 members from more than 20 countries.
The association qualifies, informs and connects. It does not set standards. Standards are set by others: internationally by the International Valuation Standards Council, for German public accountants by the Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer.
Teaching and professional community
Lecturer at the CVA training weeks since 2005. University teaching in business valuation since 2000. From 2006 to 2010 Professor of Business Valuation and Value Based Management at SRH Hochschule Calw.
Numerous publications in journals and books on business valuation. Since 2005 member of the editorial board and editor of the journal BewertungsPraktiker, since 2022 member of the editorial board and editor of the European Business Valuation Magazine.