Archive for May, 2008

The Contingency Planning Chapter of a Business Valuation Report

Contingency planning limits business valuation success. Actions have to be timely, coordinated, and effective, when plans made on paper, go wrong at ground zero.

Business valuation can become quite useless if an organization does not detect signals of danger early enough to contain damage. The risk management approach promotes a culture which safeguards precious capital resources.

Business valuation becomes bureaucratic and ritualistic if you insist on contingency planning for every risk. There… Read all of The Contingency Planning Chapter of a Business Valuation Report

Unstated Assumptions in Business Valuation

Business valuation proposals are generally prepared by domain experts. They know a sector of industry and a function of management so well, that they often do not ask basic questions. They overlook, by the same token, changes in conventions to which they have become accustomed.

A professional who knows the path through thorough investment analysis may ask naïve questions when first introduced to a new venture, but this seeming innocence can… Read all of Unstated Assumptions in Business Valuation

The Costs of Business Credit

To the neophyte entrepreneur, the costs of business credit may seem a bit unnerving and worrisome. What are the costs associated with business credit? Actually, the costs associated with business credit are primarily dependent on the credit rating of the entrepreneur, unless the business is a corporation.

When a business is a corporation, getting a line of business credit is based on the corporation as a separate entity; meanwhile… Read all of The Costs of Business Credit

Travel Insurance Online

In today’s world of technology and the Internet, finding travel insurance for your journey is easier than ever. Whether you’re taking a cruise in the Mediterranean or a month long pilgrimage on the railroads of Europe, it’s an easy and useful thing to find the travel insurance package which best fits your needs.

The simplest thing to do is perform a basic web search. Try just running a search for ‘travel… Read all of Travel Insurance Online

Types of Business Credit

If you are a proprietor, you are fully aware that business credit and financing is a crucial part of running a business. A company or firm requires adequate and consistent business credit in order for it to survive.

As a business owner, you have a variety of business credit options available to you. By a large extent, the type of business credit that you use to finance your business… Read all of Types of Business Credit

Travel Insurance For My Family

There’s nothing quite like traveling to new and exciting places with your family. Amazing sights you can see together, great things you can do together, unique airline meals you can eat together …

Other than the airline part, family travel can be a fun, enjoyable way for families to draw closer together. And when traveling, the wise parent will make sure the trip is insured in case any emergency… Read all of Travel Insurance For My Family

Do Not Forget Intangibles in Business Valuation

The triad of brands, goodwill, and know-how has no slots in financial statements, and therefore tend to be left out in formal business valuation. Yet, they can spring nasty surprises on an investor, and leave a seller in hopeless recrimination as well!

The value of brands is relatively well known, but finance professionals, who generally lead business valuation exercises, are usually at a loss to discern trends in rank, image, and… Read all of Do Not Forget Intangibles in Business Valuation

Why I Need Business Credit

Business credit is essentially the backbone of any business regardless of its size and mode of operations. If you are a business owner, you cannot begin to meet your short and long term business objectives until you have obtained adequate business credit.

It is clear that without a consistent supply of the right business credit, a business cannot survive; this is because business credit can provide your business with the… Read all of Why I Need Business Credit

Certificates of Tax Liens

One person’s problems can be an entirely new and awe inspiring opportunity for another person.

Such is often the case for individuals involving tax liens. Tax liens are put onto a property when a person cannot pay the debt that they owe another person or establishment.

As collateral for the creditor, the individual’s property is taken by the creditors in an imposition of tax liens. A certain amount of time… Read all of Certificates of Tax Liens

Tax Liens Competition

Tax liens are placed on properties in instances where an individual owes money and has either chosen to not pay the balance, or has not been able to pay it. These tax liens are used as a means by which a creditor can encourage or force the individual to pay the debt exhibited by the tax liens, through one method or another.

Sometimes, when a person owes a great deal… Read all of Tax Liens Competition