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Thomas P. Benson, CPA, CFFA, has successfully completed the certification process with the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA) to earn the designation of Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA).

In making this announcement, NACVA Chief Executive Officer, Parnell Black, MBA, CPA, CVA, noted, “This designation is an explicit and strong indication to the professional community that Mr. Benson has met the association’s rigorous standards of professionalism, expertise, objectivity, and integrity in the fields of business valuation, litigation support, and related consulting disciplines.” Business valuations for privately held entities are performed for a wide variety of uses including buying or selling a business, succession or exit planning, estate tax planning and compliance, damage claims for business disruption or minority shareholder actions, Employee Stock Ownership Plans, and mergers or spin offs.

Requirements to earn the Certified Valuation Analyst designation include being a licensed Certified Public Accountant, completing NACVA’s extensive training program, and successfully completing the Association’s comprehensive two part examination process. To maintain his certification as a Certified Valuation Analyst, Mr. Benson will be required to meet stringent periodic continuing professional education and experience requirements in areas related to business valuation.

Thomas P. Benson is the founder and Managing Director of The Vineyard Group, LLC, a multi-faceted firm that offers a wide range of services to individuals, businesses, and organizations on a local and regional basis including Business Advisory Services, Ownership Transition Services, Litigation Support Services, Fraud Deterrence and Investigation and Emerging Business Services, through its offices in Jamestown and Olean. “It is the goal of the Vineyard Group to add value to each of our clients by providing them with a wide range of specialized expert services that precisely meet their needs and consistently exceed their expectations,” Mr. Benson commented. “Earning the designation of Certified Valuation Analyst and the devotion of the significant manpower and financial resources that are required to obtain and maintain it are additional visible and tangible signs of our absolute commitment to excellence,” he added. Mr. Benson has been a Certified Public Accountant in New York State since 1979 and also was awarded the exclusive designation of Certified Forensic Financial Analyst from NACVA in 2005. In addition the Vineyard Group staff maintains two additional CVAs, a Certified Fraud Deterrence Analyst and a Certified Fraud Examiner.

NACVA is an international organization that supports the users of business and intangible asset valuation services, forensic financial services, including damage determinations of all kinds and fraud prevention and detection by training and certifying financial professionals in these disciplines. NACVA further supports its more than six thousand members by providing them with continuing professional education and development, specialized research services as well as software and industry and economic databases.