Product Description

The Groundwork of Company Valuation for First–time Buyers and Sellers

A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company has helped thousands of first–time buyers and sellers realize a fair, substantiated value for small businesses. Now in its Second Edition, this book covers common valuation techniques and myths, tips for determining tangible and intangible values, sample balance sheets and income statements, and approaches to valuing start–up technology and dot–com businesses.

This nuts–and–bolts guide addresses publicly traded and privately held firms, including traditional brick–and–mortar companies and the intellectual property industry. With a clear, concise writing style, the author walks readers through common practices for valuing, from collecting data to arriving at a saleable figure for all types of businesses, including professional practice, manufacturing, wholesale distributors, and a variety of retail operations. This new edition features perspectives on nontraditional valuation practices, guidance for using an excess earnings method, and an abundance of case studies from actual companies.

In order to make the most profitable decisions, before putting a business on the market or making an offer to acquire one, every beginning business purchaser and seller should read A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company, Second Edition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #389072 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From the Author
For buyers or sellers of small closely-held businesses
This book targets the inexperienced small business buyer or seller of businesses that transfer for $2 million or under. However, larger closely-held company buyers have found it useful too. It is not a technical treatise, nor written with the valuation trade in mind.

From the Back Cover
The Groundwork of Company Valuation for First–time Buyers and Sellers

A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company has helped thousands of first–time buyers and sellers realize a fair, substantiated value for small businesses. Now in its Second Edition, this book covers common valuation techniques and myths, tips for determining tangible and intangible values, sample balance sheets and income statements, and approaches to valuing start–up technology and dot–com businesses.

This nuts–and–bolts guide addresses publicly traded and privately held firms, including traditional brick–and–mortar companies and the intellectual property industry. With a clear, concise writing style, the author walks readers through common practices for valuing, from collecting data to arriving at a saleable figure for all types of businesses, including professional practice, manufacturing, wholesale distributors, and a variety of retail operations. This new edition features perspectives on nontraditional valuation practices, guidance for using an excess earnings method, and an abundance of case studies from actual companies.

In order to make the most profitable decisions, before putting a business on the market or making an offer to acquire one, every beginning business purchaser and seller should read A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company, Second Edition.

About the Author
WILBUR M. YEGGE, PhD, has bought and sold five companies, brokered the sale of over 300 small businesses, and valued more than 1,000 others. President of a management consulting firm, he is the author of Self–Defense Finance for Small Businesses and A Basic Guide for Buying and Selling a Company, both published by Wiley.

Customer Reviews

A good book, If you need an overview about this topic
The title of the book is very explicit, "A Basic Guide", If you are looking for a general explanation about the valuation process and you are a bussiness related person, you will easily understand this book. It explain a new concept in valuation named "Hybrid Method", which is an interesting author's theory. But, if you are looking for a deep technical detail about this topic I recommend "Valuation" of McKinsey & Co.

not a very good book. A much better book on subject is...
This seems to be a fairly narrow treatment - not very helpful, nor easy to read. A much better book is "Unlocking the Value of Your Business."

Excellent on both the "art" and "science" of valuation.
Just what I needed as a small business owner who needed a basic understanding of both the art and the science of valuing my company. Heavier read than it looks, since I didn't needed to know everything about non-related businesses. I did need to know how what factors must be considered and how complex some deals could be. Yegge speaks from experience and that is obvious, helpful and most comforting.