Business Owners Addition by Subtraction: A Formula for Increasing the Value of a Business When it’s time to sell a business, is the whole really greater than the sum of its parts? It may…
Business Owners The 2 Most Important Drivers Of Your Company’s Valuation Open up any corporate finance textbook and you’ll find thousands of pages devoted to valuation theory, valuation principles, and techniques…
Business Owners How Long Does a Valuation Last? It’s a logical question from business owners: how long is a valuation good for? The short answer: probably for about…
Business Owners Business Valuation: An Introduction to Pre/Post Money Valuation Pre-money and post-money are frequently used terms to describe the valuation of a company when raising capital. In this post,…
Business Owners Personal Goodwill: How One Person Can Alter the Value of a Business In some businesses, an employee’s or owner’s reputation, knowledge and/or relationships might be critical to the business’s current and future…
Business Owners How Earnings & Unique Assets Grow Valuations What if you knew with near certainty which prospects would actually buy and when? And what if the blocking and…
Advisors M&A Advisors Proven to Improve Valuations “Do I really need an M&A advisor?” This is a question thousands of business owners ask themselves every year when…
Business Owners Valuing Intangible Assets Intangible assets are “assets, other than a financial asset, that lack physical substance.” They are a critical consideration when valuing…
CFOs Financial Engineering 101: Maximizing the Value of Your Company One term that comes up often when we talk about private equity is “financial engineering.” Some people argue that private…
