You see, every valuation starts with assumptions. Assumptions about risk, future earnings, about buyer appetite, and the economy not imploding next Tuesday. You can absolutely apply the maths properly, and you should, but the maths is only as good...
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From a valuer’s perspective, clean structures make life easier. It’s faster to work out what’s being sold, what it’s worth, and how it’ll transfer. For instance, consider an NDIS business that operates out of a Discretionary Trust. Given that...
By Brett Goodyer, FCPA B.Com M.ForAccy – Forensic Accountant, Business Valuer, Bullshit Slayer Before you open Excel, open your ears. You can’t value a business if you don’t understand the owner, the risks, and the realities behind the numbers....
Having a strong, competent, empowered management team in place in a business means that any owner or prospective owner can confidently leave the day-to-day management of the business to the team. Its effect is twofold: It releases the owner...
Unfortunately, many business owners get the wrong end of the stick when they try to work out what their business might be worth. For instance, I have seen many valuations where businesses are being valued by attempting to determine...
A commonly employed approach to business valuations is the Capitalisation of Future Maintainable Earnings (CFME), which establishes the business’s value based on a multiple of its earnings. So, lets delve into the intricacies of earnings multiples and their significance...
The most appropriate approach to valuing an accounting practice should involve a methodology that captures future earnings after paying the operating expenses that it must incur to attain those earnings as well as factoring in the particular set of...
Quite simply, the structure that is suitable for you is not necessarily suitable for someone else or for another business, and often structures evolve, and not necessarily in an orderly or even appropriate manner. So, restructuring your business, whilst...
Business valuations can be complex, and the rules can be hard to pin down sometimes. There are many business valuation methodologies that can be employed, aimed at determining the value of the enterprise. They are usually prepared on the...