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 […]

Normalizing Earnings Tells You How Profitable a Company Really Is

We show you the real numbers

Normalizing earnings allows one to both compare earning both year over year and against other companies. There are several terms that we use to represent this normalized earnings number. They included SDE (Seller Discretionary Earnings), SDI (Seller Discretionary Income), Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Net, or (my favorite) Owner Benefit. While conceptional simple, […]

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 […]

Myths and truths about business valuation

Most people are surprised to learn that a business can have different values based on the purpose of valuation.

By Alina Niculita  – Morones Analytics Jul 12, 2019 While most people understand real estate appraisal, the same cannot be said about business appraisal or business valuation. Real estate appraisal makes sense because it puts a price on houses and commercial properties, which are tangible assets and can be easily accepted as […]

Business Valuation

Business Sale Valuation

Appraising Your Business in 60 Minutes! By Glen Cooper, Business Broker / Business Coach – www.ColoradoBusinessBrokers.co There is a simple method for appraising most businesses. Key ter1ns are important to understand. Major exceptions must be noted. A short-cut method is useful because it can give you a general idea of what a business might […]