One best practice is to conduct regular (annual or bi-annual) internal due diligence vents on your own business. Those who drive value realize much higher ROI (returns on investment) than those that just passively take the value given to them.
Countless times over the years, I have been told by some accountants and lawyers that they don’t bother with formal valuations when undertaking transactions such as estate freezes or corporate re-organizations. They either rely on a quick and dirty back of the napkin...
The path of any business is complicated, a valuation helps owners chart the way.
The demands on a business owner are onerous and there is very little time left over for working on the business; let alone thinking about what your business is worth. Some of the concer...
The market story of privately owned companies is somewhat mixed in 2018, while earnings before interest depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) margins have declined, the multiples paid for those earnings have increased while at the same time the number of acquisitions...
VICTORIA - 71 per cent of entrepreneurs intend to retire in the next decade, Canadian author Wayne Vanwyck, who penned The Business Transition Crisis. Of these, only seven per cent have a written plan for succession, and according to...
Industry insiders, buyers and sellers sometimes talk about multiples of revenue as a metric of company value. You can take any price and divide it by the annual revenue of a business and obtain a revenue multiple or fraction thereof. A $1 million sale price divided by...
Start Early: A business valuation analyst needs to be brought in early in the case to help with identification of information and documents during the discovery process. Sufficient and reliable data is needed for correct valuation result...
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Having a well-financed business that doesn’t rely on bad sources of debt goes a long way to making a company attractive to buyers and ensuring that it fetches an attractive valuation. But, the choices that produce a good balance sheet don’t happen overnight; it takes y...
