Decosimo's Costello Educates Business Advisors On Helping Clients Buy Or Sell Small-to-Medium Sized Businesses

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Principal Mike Costello, CPA, ABV, ASA, CFE, CFF of Decosimo, will be making several presentations to legal advisors and other business leaders in a three-city roadshow across Tennessee Aug. 6-8 in connection with the National Business Institute’s “Helping Your Client Buy or Sell a Small-to-Medium Sized Business” seminar. Mr. Costello’s presentations will educate the National Business Institute audience on how to advise buyers and sellers during the first steps of the transaction process, the methods for valuing a business and the various options for financing a deal.

Mr. Costello will share his presentations in Knoxville on Aug. 6 at the Crowne Plaza Knoxville, in Memphis on Aug. 7 at the Fogelman Executive Conference Center and in Nashville on Aug. 8 at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel. Attendees of the seminar, including legal professionals, financial planners and certified public accountants, may earn up to 7 hours of continuing professional education credit. 

Mr. Costello is the director of strategic transition planning and litigation services for Decosimo. Mr. Costello is a certified public accountant, certified fraud examiner, accredited senior business appraiser and consultant, with more than 28 years of training and experience in business valuations, business acquisitions and divestitures and related fields. His experience includes extensive consulting work and testimony in tax, accounting, financial, economic and business issues of commercial litigation, with emphasis on business valuation, economic damage and forensic accounting issues. He also is a managing director for the investment banking group DCF, member of FINRA/SIPC.

Since 1983 National Business Institute has been one of the largest providers of legal and professional education in the nation, serving over two million professionals. NBI’s training resources provide participants with practical knowledge needed to perform their jobs with greater skill and effectiveness. NBI works in close cooperation with more than 500 continuing legal and other education credit granting organizations to assist participants with satisfying their professional training requirements.



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