Jack Young, ASA, CPA

Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA)

+++Machinery & Business Asset Appraisal Services
+++from Farm to Factory

Statement of Qualifications

Jack Young is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) of the American Society of Appraisers specializing in Machinery and Equipment Appraisals and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He has also been awarded a Master Personal Property Appraiser (MPPA) designation from the National Auctioneers Association. Jack has thousands of hours experience as an Equipment Appraiser and is an active member of the Northern California Chapter of the ASA, where he serves as Chapter Vice President.

Previous to accreditation as an ASA in Equipment and Machinery Appraisal, Jack worked for many years as an auctioneer and auction manager of business assets, machinery, equipment and personal property. This experience, combined with his background in accounting and financial analysis, provides a strong base for the asset valuation concepts embraced by the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) and the commercial personal property lending industry today.

Jack received his B.S. Accountancy, Arizona State University, in 1988. While in college, he worked at the local mid-sized regional CPA firm, Price, Kong & Company, preparing monthly financial statements and performing tax work. Upon graduation he went into the audit department of international CPA firm KPMG in their Sacramento, California office. While at KPMG, Jack worked in the industries of banking, insurance, manufacturing, agriculture and distribution to name a few. Subsequent to KPMG, Jack was a financial analyst in the insurance and international micro-finance industries.

Summary of Credentials

American Society of Appraisers, Accredited Senior Appraiser
California Board of Accountancy, Certified Public Accountant

Classes, Associations & Certifications

• 2011 ME207 Advanced Cost Approach, ASA
• 2011 USPAP update, complete 15-hr course, American Society of Appraisers
• 2010 ME215 Machinery and Equipment Valuations for Financial Reporting Purposes, ASA
• 2010 Machine Life Cycle Costing, ASA
• 2010 IRS Valuation Summit, Sacramento, CA
• 2010 Master Personal Property Appraiser (MPPA), awarded by National Auctioneers Association
• 2009 Int’l Conference on the Valuation of Plant and Machinery Equipment, San Francisco, CA
• 2009 Valuation of Easements and other Partial Interests, IRWA, AI
• 2009 ME204 Machinery and Equipment: Advanced Topics and Case Studies, ASA
• 2009 ME203 Machinery and Equipment: Advanced Topics and Case Studies, ASA
• 2009 Appraisal Report Writing, ASA
• 2008 ME202 Machinery and Equipment Valuation Methodology, ASA
• 2008 ME201 Introduction to Machinery and Equipment Valuation, ASA
• 2008 USPAP update, 7-hr course, American Society of Appraisers
• 2007 Appraiser as Expert Witness, National Auctioneers Association Education Institute
• 2007 Graduate Personal Property Appraiser (GPPA), awarded by National Auctioneers Association
• 2006 USPAP, complete 15-hr course, National Auctioneers Association Education Institute
• 2002 Repperts School of Auctioneering at the Kruse Auction Park
• 1988 BS, Accounting, Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business

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