Chris Brain Associates

presents

THE ASSET VALUATION CIRCLE 

As a commercial valuation practice, the 3 biggest local authority asset valuation headaches you are likely to experience are:

• Understanding the often unique and impenetrable accounting and valuation standards

• Achieving a high level of quality and consistency across the team

• Demonstrating your expertise to potential clients so that you can WIN work and KEEP work!

The Asset Valuation Circle is here to help you with those 3 headaches, and more.

Discover:

• How to eliminate your asset valuation headaches.

• What it means to overcome the local authority language barrier. 

• The most unique, comprehensive, flexible and versatile asset valuation training platform anywhere!

Who is the Asset Valuation Circle for?

Asset valuation just got easier.  Designed by experts in local authority asset valuation, the Asset Valuation Circle provides an online training package for all those involved in local authority asset valuation.

In this new era of transparency in public sector finance, there is a greater need than ever before for more accurate and reliable asset valuations. The Asset Valuation Circle is here to help councils ensure they have the right experts in place to deliver timely and accurate asset valuations.

We have structured the content of the Asset Valuation Circle to suit anyone that might be involved in the process of undertaking, managing and commissioning local authority asset valuations.

The Asset Valuation Circle is a unique online training package providing everything you need to know about local authority asset valuation. Levels of knowledge range from foundation and competency to mastery.

It is a training portal with the perfect combination of fully flexible pre-recorded training alongside regular LIVE training. This now totals over 60 hours of online CPD - and growing!

The Asset Valuation Circle is also a professional online learning community. It brings together best practice approaches to asset valuation and delivers them through an interactive online community, enabling you to build your skills and enhance your CV.

Asset valuation training and interaction with the Asset Valuation Circle will give you the edge you need, to tackle the constantly increasing regulatory compliance challenges.

The Asset Valuation Circle will give you the knowledge to confidently and effectively value your assets, along with the confidence to push yourself beyond any fear of being wrong. We believe that with the Asset Valuation Circle at your side, you’ll be equipped to tackle the most complex of asset valuation challenges.

So don’t delay and enroll in The Asset Valuation Circle today.

The training is perfect for:

• Asset Valuers, whatever their level of knowledge.
• Valuers that are new to asset valuations, whether through internal redeployment or coming into local government for the first time.
• Capital Accountants that oversee or commission asset valuations and have dealings with auditors.
• Finance Officers that are either new to local government, or new to Capital Accounting.
• Commissioners of asset valuations, either from internal or external Valuers.
• Team Leaders or Managers with asset valuation oversight, that want to understand more about the process they are responsible for.
• Member of Business Support or the Database team that want to understand about the process that Valuers and Accountants have to go through.
• Graduate Surveyors that are going through their APC.

If you are a private sector valuation practice, you are looking for consistency across the outputs of your teams.  These teams can often be spread across a number of offices around the UK.  Some members of the team may be completely new to local authority asset valuation.  You need to build their knowledge and competency levels.

This is all so important in helping you win and keep more local authority asset valuation commissions.

The training is structured within three tiers of competency, all of which will be available for you.  (Scroll further down the page for more information on these three tiers)

Who will be delivering the training?

All our training is researched, prepared and delivered by Chris Brain.

Chris is widely known and respected for his knowledge and expertise in local authority asset valuation.  He is the leading UK expert in local authority asset valuation.

Chris has been delivering asset valuation support and training to the local government sector for over 10 YEARS.  In that time he has trained over 2,500 PEOPLE in asset valuation.  He has been a member of the RICS Public Sector Asset Valuation Group for over 10 years.​

Chris is Valuation Liaison Officer to ACES Council.

There really is no-one else out there delivering asset valuation training with anything like the experience that Chris is able to offer. He delivers the training in such a unique and accessible way.

It will be a 'no holds barred' training, rooted in the practicality and reality of asset valuation. If you have every attended any of Chris' asset valuation training, you will know what we mean.  Chris prides himself on converting complex principles into easy to understand concepts.

Chris Brain's bio:

• 40+ years in and around local government
• 24 years in local government
• 17 years as Senior Consultant and Property Training & Standards Manager at CIPFA
• 10 years delivering CIPFA asset valuation events and training
• Trained over 3,00 people in asset valuation across the UK
• Joint author of CIPFA asset valuation handbook
• 10 years on RICS PSVG (including 9 years as CIPFA representative)
• Red Book drafting and amendments
• Member of working group and author panel for RICS DRC guidance
• Co-author of new RICS guidance on Existing Use Value, due for publication in 2022
• Member of the RICS Public Sector Valuer Rotation Working Group
• Former member of the RICS UK & Ireland World Region Board
• Valuation Liaison Officer to ACES Council

Allow Chris to deliver you from your asset valuation misery!

What is the secret to Asset Valuation?

It all boils down to 3 things. 

Yes, just 3 things!

Compliance

...ensuring that everyone involved in your asset valuations is doing everything to comply with the valuation and accounting standards.

Consistency

...ensuring that everyone involved in your asset valuations is working to the same robust standards and methods.

Certainty

...ensuring that every action, opinion and conclusion is evidence based.

That begs the question: How do you ensure that you adopt an approach that demonstrates compliance, consistency and certainty?

The answer of course is the 

The Asset Valuation Circle

By joining the Asset Valuation Circle you will have 24/7 access to all our online asset valuation training modules.  Nobody else offers that!

You don't get to just watch the training once.  You can pause, rewind and watch again.  In fact you can watch it again and again, as many times as you like during your subscription.

This means it's always there for you. 

Simply work your way through the training modules - which are in digestible bite-sized chunks. 

You can dip in and revisit as many times as you like.  And because they are in short bite-sized chunks you will not have to wade through hours of video to find the information or help that you need.

NO LONG HOURS - just short sharp training sessions that will leave absolutely no stone on the topic unturned.

Will the training be at the right level for me?

Everybody comes to asset valuation with a different background and level of knowledge.  That is why we have divided the training modules into three levels - Foundation, Competence and Mastery. 

Whatever your starting point there is something to meet your training needs.  All three levels are available to all subscribers.

If you have an individual subscription you can work your way through the levels or jump around, whichever suits you best.

If you have a group subscription, with people at different levels of knowledge or competence then this three tier structure is just what you need.  Those that are new will not get swamped in complex issues until they feel ready.  Those with more knowledge can jump ahead to the Competence or Mastery levels straight away.

The Asset Valuation Circle is truly everything for everyone, and perfect for teams where knowledge levels vary.

It doesn't matter if you are searching for the simple or the complex, the Asset Valuation Circle has it all in one place.

FOUNDATION LEVEL: This will provide you with a firm foundation on the basics of local authority asset valuation.  These foundations are crucial to later training modules.  At this level we will be covering:​

• The regulatory framework

• Asset categories and basis of value

• Asset Valuation for Accountants

• DRC and EUV overview

• Housing stock valuation overview

• IFRS13 Fair Value overview

• Leases overview

• Depreciable amount

COMPETENCE LEVEL: This training level will move you on from the foundation level, by developing some of the foundation thinking and applying it to practical situations.  We will also be going into more detail on certain aspects of asset valuation.  This will cover areas such as:​

• Material accuracy

• Valuation frequency

• Practical application of IFRS 16

• The modern equivalent asset in DRC

• Practical issues with EUV

• Fair Value hierarchy

• Practical application of IFRS 13

MASTERY LEVEL: At this upper training level, we will take you from simple competence with deep dives into real and practical asset valuations challenges and scenarios.  This level will cover areas such as:​

• Understanding obsolescence in DRC

• Where componentisation goes wrong

• IFRS13 disclosures

• Preparing for audit

• Valuation moderation

• Commissioning external valuers

• Achieving valuation consistency

• PLUS a wide range of thought provoking worked examples, where we apply the theory into practical scenarios

You are bound to have some questions.  That's quite understandable.  

We have put together our Top 12 Questions for you below.  We hope that these will answer most of the questions you are likely to have. 

Just click on the button below for the answers. 

1. I understand the theory, will I get help with the practical application?
2. What if I have rather unique challenges?
3. Is the Asset Valuation Circle ONLY for valuers?
4. How much training is there in the portal?
5. How do I access all the online benefits?
6. What if team members change?
7. Can we share the password access around the team? 
8. When is access available? 
9. What does it cost?
10. What if I need access for more people?
11. How do we pay?
12. How long is membership for?

If you have any other questions, not covered in the above list, then please do feel free to email us at [email protected].

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