How and Why to Set Up a Buy Sell Agreement

Buy Sell Agreement

by Steve Whitehill At the most basic level, a buy sell agreement is a contract that outlines the sale of an owner’s share of a business. Buy sell agreements are sometimes referred to as buyout agreements. These agreements may be used for a number of reasons. Examples include retirement, bankruptcy, death, […]

How-To Guide: Business Valuation – Part 2

Value vs Price

We help you live the life you want. By Steve Whitehill In our prior article we discussed different valuation methods. Each of the valuation methods has its strengths and weaknesses. Generally speaking, for main street and lower middle market businesses, we use the valuation based on earnings. While these earnings have […]

Valuing a Small Business in its Startup Phase

Business Valuation

Repost from BizBySell Many of the analyses and valuation techniques most business appraisers rely on to value small businesses use an analysis of historical financial statements to: Identify potential trends Compare the subject to the industry average Find any required normalization adjustments The question then becomes, how does one appraise or […]