How do experts with who you have no regular contacts see the future? The question may have occurred in your mind often, but gets lost in the hustle of routine papers at the office.

Business valuation requires trust, so the number crunching is done by people who know your pet peeves! Well, everyone has blind spots, so how do you avoid future downsides which no one over who you wield power… Read all of The Delphi Version of New Business Valuation

It is not a mere truism that ‘no one knows the future for sure’ when it comes to business valuation! Do not allow zealous defense of point estimates and forecasts sway you, because if something can go wrong, it probably will!

There are no financial gains in revengeful performance appraisals, and the authors of that horribly wrong business valuation of the past, may not be around anyhow! A decade is par… Read all of No Business Valuation Makes Sense without a Sensitivity Profile

The most attractive business valuation is a trap if its pushes up your head count. Conditions tend to change, but people, especially the ones you no longer need, do not go away for free! Countries with militant labor are the worst in this respect.

You could be saddled with armies of blue collar workers who drag the enterprise down a bottomless pit. Some emerging economies intentionally lure you with incentives to… Read all of How Does Business Valuation Affect Your Fixed Commitments?

Real estate and civil construction are almost invariably undervalued in business valuation. Land assets tend to appreciate, though inadequately maintained buildings may suffer the opposite fate. Either way, it is worth getting property agents and engineers to put new numbers on the fixed assets of a business.

Furniture and fixtures are rarely material, unless there are some antiques involved, but new plant and machinery may cost much more than amounts in… Read all of Business Valuation with Revalued Assets

There must be alternative uses for resources other than the business valuation on your desk. Should you consider incremental values, qualitative factors, or toss a coin in secret? Every business valuation proposal teases the mind, switching between bewitching attractions and nagging doubts.

There must be tremendous attractions, otherwise the business valuation papers would not have reached you in the first place! However, spines of uncertainties lie between your present status and… Read all of Business Valuation Opportunity Costing