Capitalized earnings valuation method pops up all the time in appraisals of just about any income producing asset – commercial real estate, businesses, or any other valuable asset. What makes the capitalized earnings method so popular? So what makes this valuation method so popular? In short, simplicity and wide acceptance by the valuation professionals, courts,… Continue Reading
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You probably heard it often from companies: “Our people are our most valuable asset”. This may sound boring but the value of trained and assembled workforce is quite real. In fact, it is the employees that define the company and make it special. So what makes up the value of a workforce? In fact, it… Continue Reading
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If you do business valuations internationally, it is a good idea to find out what the International Valuation Standards (IVS) have to say about the choice of methods. The standards are accepted for business valuation across the globe these days. In some countries the IVS is the de-factor national standard for asset valuations. One key… Continue Reading
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Value to whom? Now this one puzzles many a business person. Isn’t value of a business asset a single number? In other words, each asset has ‘the’ value. Not quite. Consider an example: A manufacturer of business equipment incurs costs of labor and materials to create a product. Let’s say the manufacturer calculates this as… Continue Reading
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Now this one may surprise some people. You might expect being unable to find an asset that shows up on the books. But businesses may have assets in use that have been written off with a value of zero. So a seasoned business appraiser who went through a physical inventory count will never overlook the… Continue Reading
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Business appraisers try really hard to be objective in order to produce a realistic and well supported business valuation result. So can a business appraisal be objective and yet differ from another valuation of the same company by a different appraiser? The answer is yes. Why? Because business valuation is always about the future. So… Continue Reading
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Non-compete agreements happen quite often as part of a business sale. As a result, you should have a decent idea of the agreement’s value in order to allocate part of the business purchase price to it. Usually you would have a written contract obligating the business seller to refrain from setting up a competitive business… Continue Reading
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Valuing a business? Then the need to figure out the discount and cap rates for minority and controlling investments may be in the cards. Appraisers call this step in the valuation process assessing the cost of capital. Reliable evidence you can use to figure out your cost of capital comes from the public capital markets.… Continue Reading
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Ask any appraiser about the ways to figure out the value of an asset or a business. You will hear that there are only three ways to do this. You may be surprised that all these smart people managed to come up with is just three approaches to valuation. Yet this is true, only three… Continue Reading
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Why do conflicts in business valuation arise? When business owners don’t see eye to eye they may be tempted to part company and go their separate ways. Naturally, they would want to be compensated for their share of the business. And this creates the need for a business to be appraised. If the dispute is… Continue Reading
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