As you probably know, the Internal Revenue Service is the tax arm of the US Treasury Department. Unsurprisingly, valuation of businesses and other assets is of interest to the IRS. Through the years, the service has published a number of interpretations that have come to be widely supported in professional business appraisals. These revenue rules,… Continue Reading
If you are considering using the income based methods in your business valuation, you have two main choices: capitalization or discounting. In simple terms, the difference boils down to how you intend to treat the expected changes in business earnings going forward. In using the discounted cash flow method, you specify the anticipated earnings explicitly… Continue Reading
If you ask a business appraiser, you will hear: business value is in the eyes of the beholder. In formal jargon, business valuation results depend on the standard of value you use. One of these standards is known as the intrinsic value. As the name implies, this is the measure of value one figures out… Continue Reading