What Every Business Owner Should Know About Valuing Their Business

The first easy-to-follow valuation handbook for business owners of every size Accurate valuation of a business is generally complex to determine and costly to obtain.

What Every Business Owner Should Know About Valuing Their Business provides business owners with the knowledge they need to obtain and understand a valuation and ensure they receive what they're paying for.

Explanations include valuation basics, situations in which a valuation should be performed, what it should cost, and much more.

Numerous case studies illustrate valuations for a wide variety of industries, variables, and situations. Practical valuation-related issues are given in-depth yet easy-to-understand coverage, including:

• What owners should and should not do during a valuation
• Pros and cons of various methods for buying or selling a business
• Legal and accounting aspects essential to fair valuation

Stan Feldman, Ph.D. is an associate professor of finance at Bentley College and chairman of the valuation firm bizownerHQ.

Tim Sullivan, Ph.D. is a professor of finance at Bentley College.

Roger Winsby is the president of bizownerHQ, a strategic partner of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the preferred provider of business valuation services for its members.