Thomas Gillmore, CPA, ASA, CFF, CVA
Our Services
At Business Valuation CPA, we specialize in providing comprehensive and reliable business valuation services tailored to meet the unique needs of our clients. Whether you're planning to sell, transfer ownership, resolve disputes, or comply with tax and financial reporting requirements, our expertise ensures an accurate and insightful valuation. With a focus on professionalism, transparency, and attention to detail, we deliver valuations that empower you to make informed decisions with confidence. Discover the difference our personalized approach can make for your business.
Safeguard your Assets Before 2026
Are you looking to safeguard your assets and minimize tax liabilities through strategic estate planning? Our team specializes in comprehensive business valuation services, working closely with estate planning specialists, retirement planners, and law firms.
Milestones and Accomplishments - 2009 to 2024
Overview
We specialize in delivering precise and reliable business valuations for a wide range of purposes, including shareholder buyouts, buy-sell agreements, mergers and acquisitions, general partnerships, family limited partnerships, probate settlements, as well as tax and estate planning.
Credentialed by the American Society of Appraisers (ASA), State of Florida Board of Accountancy (CPA), the American Association of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA, CPA/ABV), and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE), Mr. Gillmore is ethically bound to produce reports and provide testimony that is unbiased, accurate, reliable, and easy to reproduce.
Nationwide Webinar
On May 11, 2022, Tom co-presented on Using Business Valuations to Resolve Disputes in Mediation. You attend this webinar for CPE on the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants ("FICPA") website.
Statewide CPA Presentation
On January 8, 2021, Tom co-presented at the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants ("FICPA") virtual Valuation Forensic Accounting & Litigation Services Conference. We received average speaker scores above 4.5 out of five (5), representing approximately eighty attendees.
Judicial Presentations
In October 2020, at the invitation of Judge Diana Tennis, Tom co-presented at the Bench Bar Conference on Business Valuation with the Honorable Julie O'Kane, with Judge Donald Myers moderating.
National Publications
Tom is a nationally recognized contributor to the profession of business valuation. His industry-accepted Simplified MUM procedures have been published three times by Business Valuation Resources, a national publication, initially in February 2016, and secondly, in their Business Valuation in Divorce, Case Law Compendium – Fourth Edition 2019 and in 2021. Tom's Simplified MUM was presented at a conference at the 2018 South East Chapter of Business Appraisers and prevailed on appeal in Illinois in the family law matter of Preston v Preston; 2018 IL App (2d) 170656-U.
Statewide Publications
Tom has been published multiple times by the Florida Bar on matters about Family Law and published by the Orange County Bar association on matters of Family Law.
We travel to clients throughout Central Florida. Schedule a free initial consultation with us today.
Divorce Valuations - 2009 to 2024
Litigation Valuations -2009 to 2024
Expert Witness Testimony 2009 to 2024
Mr. Gillmore has provided expert witness testimony in central Florida counties: Orange, Seminole, Brevard, Polk, Lake, Volusia, and Osceola.
Peer Reviewed Publications 2016 to 2024
Our peer reviewed simplified MUM method of goodwill appraisal prevailed in the Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District in the marital dissolution matter of Preston v Preston ( 2018 IL App (2d) {170656-U No. 2-17-0656 Order filed August 1, 2018}. This business appraisal method was used in cases at hearings and at trial in Melbourne, Orlando, Lakeland, Deltona, and Daytona Beach Florida.
Licensed and Credentialed
Credentialed by the State of Florida Board of Accountancy (CPA), by the AICPA (ABV, CFF), and by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE), Mr. Gillmore is ethically bound to produce reports and provide testimony that is unbiased, accurate, reliable, and simple to reproduce.
Bruce Parisi, MBA, ASA, ARM
Bruce Parisi, MBA, ASA, ARM
Bruce is a consultant to persons requiring expertise in the field of small business start-up, business appraisal, finance, fiduciary related matters, and private investment analysis. Bruce is professionally involved in finance for more than 30 years and has a Master of Business Administration degree in finance. His professional background includes both institutional and personal trust operations and administration, and he has been a credentialed business appraiser since 2007. Bruce was employed in the field of real estate credit reporting, individual retirement account administration, and private equity. In 2015 Bruce was credentialed in the formal process of appraisal review and can professionally opine upon business appraisals produced by other parties.
During the last 18 years of his tenure in the field of commercial banking, Bruce served in the personal trust area of a large mid-western banking institution as a private placement asset manager and business appraiser. Bruce’s personal book of business under supervision had surpassed 185 individual financial assets, at one time. The focus of the position was to support trust portfolio managers and trust administrators, who were unprepared to deal with the issues surrounding private placement investments. Bruce has personally prepared approximately one hundred estate tax valuations of private placement assets on behalf of trust clients, not one of which was ever questioned by taxation authorities. Other related duties were to comment upon trust income tax preparation, third-party asset appraisals, affect asset sales, opine upon new asset purchases, attend shareholder and partnership meetings, vote proxies, consider tender offers, consider S election proposals, etc.
In addition to engaging his services for estate/gift taxation, Bruce’s services can be used when considering a new business acquisition or sale, family law matters, estate planning, Small Business Administration (SBA) loan underwriting, fiduciary matters, commercial credit analysis, and litigation support. Feel free to contact Bruce at for more information at (219) 292-5797 or VulcanAdvisory@gmail.com