Matthew Barker, CPA, CVA
Partner
Matthew Barker is a Partner at Cooper Norman, a CPA and a Certified Valuation Analyst. His work starts where an owner needs a number that will be argued with: a sale, a buy-sell agreement, a partner buyout, a handoff to the next generation. He puts the valuation and the tax consequence in the same conversation, so the decision gets made on the whole picture instead of half of it.
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About Matthew
As a Certified Valuation Analyst, Matthew leads Business Valuation work at Cooper Norman and the Business Transition Planning that tends to follow it. That means putting a defensible number on a company and being able to show the reasoning behind it when the other side of the table pushes back on it. He works the Tax Planning and Advisory side of the same file, because how a deal is structured and what it costs in tax are one question asked twice.
The decisions that reach his desk are the ones an owner makes once. Sell now or hold two more years. Bring in a child or a key employee. Take the asset deal or the stock deal. Matthew lays out what each path does to the balance sheet and the tax bill, then gives a recommendation instead of a menu. When the answer needs an auditor or the client accounting team, he pulls the right person from one of six Cooper Norman offices across Idaho and Utah, and it stays one conversation.
Sell, transfer, or hold.
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