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Business valuation tips, updates and advice. Pick up a few suggestions on how to value a business. Feel free to browse the contents or share your thoughts by leaving a comment.

If there is one professional endeavor that has a lot of proverbial moving parts, it is business valuation. Small wonder you face a number of standards that govern how you should do your business appraisal. The accountant’s standard – AICPA SSVS No 1 A relative new comer to the field is the Statement on Standards… Continue Reading


Business sales tend to drop during economic downturns. None more so than in the midst of a world wide pandemic affecting all customer facing companies. Are you are doing business on the Web? Then your customers may be distracted dealing with a host of problems caused by the troubled economy. Business sale comps It is… Continue Reading



Once in a while you run across business valuation projects that must defer to special requirements.  Sometimes they appear to be in conflict with major business valuation standards. As an example,  your local court may call for just a market based business valuation even though the USPAP or International Valuation Standards (IVS) expect you to… Continue Reading


When an economic downturn strikes, one thing is sure to follow: business sales grind down to a halt. In uncertain times moving forward with a major investment entails risk. Business buyers stay on the sidelines afraid to make a bad acquisition that goes south. Business owners step back unwilling to sell their companies for a… Continue Reading



Cataclysmic events such as deadly pandemics are a major risk to people and businesses everywhere. Business value is all about risk and return. So it should come as no surprise that risky times bring changes to business values. What do the public capital markets tell us about the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic? Just take… Continue Reading


Is there a project you can take on without the threat of infection? Yes indeed! Catch up on your business valuations in the comfort and safety of your home or office. Do your business valuation – and avoid the crowds Get your business valuation software on your laptop or desktop computer, sit back, do some… Continue Reading


You may wonder: is it possible to use the established business valuation methods and still come up with erroneous results? You bet. Moreover, it happens all the time, even in professional business appraisals. The culprit is, as usual, between the chair and the computer screen, as the saying goes. Put seriously, your assumptions, depth of… Continue Reading


If you are considering doing a business valuation, prepare to face the inevitable: you will need to equip yourself with a business valuation software to do the job. Business valuation on a Mac and PC is the new normal Most business people and professionals are armed with an array of computing devices these days. Think… Continue Reading


The 2020 – 2021 update to the venerable USPAP standards is out and there are some changes you should know about. Perhaps the most noteworthy is the change to the format of the Restricted Appraisal report. It is now allowed to include additional parties as the intended audience besides the client. This works as long… Continue Reading


It should come as no surprise that cyber crooks are always after your money. So doing business valuations makes you a most desirable target for the criminals. Think about it – business valuation deals with money, lots of it. In fact, business ownership may be the most valuable possession people hold. Yes, business values even… Continue Reading


Business valuation software for your Mac evolves all the time. Both the capital markets and technology shifts demand this constant change. Take our ValuAdder for example.  We publish regular updates to the valuation data, new technology that comes online, and, perhaps most importantly, data security updates. Mac business valuation software keeps changing Software that is… Continue Reading



When it comes to business valuation, the market approach reigns supreme. Think about it – where else can you glean the values of businesses better than from the active, observable market place where companies change hands every day? Unsurprisingly, the International Valuation Standards or IVS for short, accord a special place to the market-based valuation… Continue Reading