EXCEPTIONAL LEVELS OF ACCREDITED EXPERTISE
Just as patients seek specialists for serious medical conditions, specialized qualifications are required in business valuation. Some credentials presented by so-called "experts" actually demonstrate no knowledge of business valuation. Others require little or no testing, work product review or experience to achieve.
Evans and Associates invites close scrutiny of our credentials. We have demonstrated the highest level of achievement in our profession, and are active locally and nationally in writing, speaking and professional development. This expertise clearly results from our strategic focus and full-time commitment to comprehensive business valuation knowledge and service.
PROFESSIONAL TEAM
Frank C. Evans 
Frank C. Evans holds the nationally recognized business valuation credentials of Certified Business Appraiser (CBA) and Accredited Senior Appraiser in Business Valuation (ASA). He works with middle market through large public companies and has extensive valuation related consulting experience in many industries.
His practice focuses on both valuation measurement and management, and business owner and executive planning and decision making to build, protect and harvest private company wealth. He has spoken at over 100 valuation seminars and conferences throughout North America and Europe. He is the co-author, with David M. Bishop, of VALUATION FOR M&A: Building Value in Private Companies, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and has authored articles that have appeared in all of the leading business valuation journals. He is a member of the Institute of Business Appraisers (IBA), the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), has taught business valuation courses for each of these organizations and has spoken at each of their national conferences. He designed the seminar, "Valuation of Companies: The Practical Aspects," for the American Management Association for whom he has taught for over 20 years. A former faculty member at The Pennsylvania State University, he continues to lecture on valuation topics at various universities. He also served as Editor of Business Appraisal Practice, the journal of The Institute of Business Appraisers.
Large organizations for which he has consulted include ExxonMobil, UPS, Ford, Accenture, Caterpillar, Federal Express, the New York Stock Exchange, Credit Suisse First Boston, the New York Society of Securities Analysts, Petro-Canada and Fiserv. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including admission to the College of Fellows of the Institute of Business Appraisers. He was selected as the national winner of the United States Small Business Administration's 1994 Accountants Advocate of the Year Award for meritorious contributions to business management, and was presented with this award by President Clinton in a ceremony at the White House. He was also chosen as the Outstanding Accounting Educator for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 1995 by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Sarah E. DeKreek 
Sarah DeKreek is an Accredited Senior Appraiser in Business Valuation (ASA) with over ten years of experience valuing businesses for the purposes of mergers and acquisitions, gift and estate tax planning, litigation, taxation and financial reporting. Prior to joining Evans and Associates, Ms. DeKreek was a Vice President of Business Valuation and Transaction Advisory Services for a regional bank with assets of $13 billion. In addition, she was a Senior Analyst in the Strategic Finance groups of two "Big 4" accounting and consulting firms.
Ms. DeKreek received a Bachelor of Science in finance from Pennsylvania State University. She continues to retain active membership in the Institute of Business Appraisers (IBA) organization and is working towards accreditation as a Certified Business Appraiser (CBA).
EXECUTION PARTNERS
E&A's work with many clients on their most important long term plans and goals frequently leads to the need for additional expertise. For this reason, we partner with other firms on numerous engagements to ensure that clients benefit from the best available resources.
American Business Appraisers (ABA) American Business Appraisers is a national consortium of approximately 20 independent business appraisal firms that cooperate on engagements, professional development, marketing, practice management, and technical matters. Evans and Associates, which was the founding affiliate member of ABA, is the Pittsburgh affiliate firm. American Business Appraisers’ goals are to:
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