Archive for January, 2015

Business valuation: using financial ratios

You may have run across a number of financial ratios in trying to analyze a company’s overall performance. The ratios are useful in a number of situations when the company’s financial condition, profitability, and efficiency in using its assets need to be understood. Using the ratios can help shed light on such important issues as… Continue Reading

Business valuation approaches: strengths and weaknesses

Ask any professional business appraiser about the choice of valuation methods and you will hear that there are quite a few. By convention, the methods are grouped under three major categories, known as approaches. There are three of those: market, asset, and income. No one approach to business valuation is bullet proof. If you choose… Continue Reading