by Greg Caruso | Nov 22, 2020 | Business Valuation Basics, Technical Business Valuation Topics
How can you tell if a business valuation is correct or if it is likely to be biased, wrong, or outright rigged? In the majority of business valuations, the business valuator follows accepted standards and delivers a supportable and unbiased valuation. Unfortunately, a...
by Greg Caruso | Oct 27, 2020 | Business Valuation Basics, Technical Business Valuation Topics
Recently I presented “Valuing Micro and Small Businesses in the Shadow of COVID-19″ as a webinar training for Business Valuation Resource members. As always, I provided time at the end of the session for questions from attendees. This group had some very...
by Greg Caruso | Oct 18, 2020 | Technical Business Valuation Topics
This month’s Business Valuation Update published by Business Valuation Resources (BVR) featured my article about implementing a “COVID-19 Marketability Discount”. This is a Discount for Lack of Marketability (DLOM) that arises due to an unusual...
by Greg Caruso | Aug 29, 2020 | Business Valuation Basics, Technical Business Valuation Topics
The following are quotes related to small business valuation, business owner succession or exit planning, business brokerage, SBA and more from “The Art of Business Valuation, Accurately Valuing a Small Business,” by Gregory R. Caruso, published by Wiley,...
by Greg Caruso | Jul 10, 2020 | Business Valuation Basics
Standard of value is a shorthand for describing who is the buyer and who is the seller and what is the framework for the transaction in a business valuation. For instance a race car has a very different value to a race car driver than it would to a family of six...