The small business valuation book : easy-to-use techniques that will help you ... determine a fair price, negotiate terms, minimize taxes

This book is an invaluable resource for business owners or buyers looking for accurate small business appraisals. How much a small business is worth can be difficult to determine, but when a business is about to change hands, a fair and objective valuation is crucial to the sale. This book is an invaluable resource for business owners or buyers looking for accurate small business appraisals. This completely revised and updated book outlines the major valuation methods, including discounted cash flow, excess earnings, asset value, and income capitalization. This edition includes completely new material on the following topics: exploring the 8 myths of business valuations; using the Internet for research; and advice on startups and first generation service businesses. With this book, appraising a business has never been easier—or more accurate! Content: Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Part I: Business Valuation Principles; Chapter 1: Exposing the Eight Myths of Business Valuations; Chapter 2: The Basics; Chapter 3: Discounting Future Returns and Other Theoretical Methods; Chapter 4: Gathering Data; Chapter 5: Restructuring Financial Statements; Chapter 6: Ratio and Risk Analyses; Chapter 7: A Cash Flow Forecasting Model; Chapter 8: Putting It All Together; Chapter 9: Conducting Research on the Internet; Part II: Valuations for Special Situations; Chapter 10: Minority Interests; Chapter 11: Debt Securities Abstract: Determining the value of a small business can seem like an obscure and incomprehensible art form of interest only to potential buyers and sellers, and only when a business is about to change hands. This book explores the 8 myths of business valuations. Read more...