11 Tips on How to Spot a “Rigged” Business Valuation
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...
Questions and Answers – Market Method of Business Valuation
Valuing Small Businesses IS Different. After a recent seminar "Valuing Small Businesses in the Shadow of COVID-19", I took time at the end to answer some questions from the attendees. Here are some of the questions (and answers!) I felt might be most helpful for other...
Small and Micro Business Valuation Market Method Questions Answered
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.
“COVID-19 Marketability Discount” for use with Market Method & Income Method Business Valuations
This month’s Business Valuation Update published by Business Valuation Resources (BVR) featured my article about implementing a “COVID-19 Marketability Discount”.
What You Need to Know About, “The Art of Business Valuation” (video)
Greg Caruso was interviewed by Melissa Gragg (Valuation Podcast.com) about why he wrote “The Art of Business Valuation”.
“The Art of Business Valuation, Accurately Valuing a Small Business”
Ronald Rudich, my friend and colleague, wrote the Forward to “The Art of Business Valuation: Accurately Valuing a Small Business”.
Improve Your Business Valuations, “The Art of Business Valuation”
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 Author Gregory R. Caruso, published by Wiley, 2020, ISBN: 978-1-119-60599-7
Five Things You Must Do To Increase Your Business Exit Value
Do you hope to increase business exit value for business succession purposes? While each business is unique, these approaches apply to every business.
Corporate Goodwill and Personal Goodwill in Business Valuation – Video
Business, Institutional, or Corporate goodwill and Personal Goodwill can be an important breakdown of the intangible value of the micro or small business. The brief video above explains the differences quite clearly. A summary of key distinctions are below. For most...
Standard of Value in Business Valuation
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...