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5 Simple Sense-Checks That Vastly Improve Your Business Valuation

Valutico

Ultimately, these margins that have already occurred are an outcome of the real world economic conditions that the business operates within, as well as the company’s internal operations, and so having these values reasonably consistent with your future projections is usually a safer bet than allowing them to vary by a huge amount.

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Disagreements and First Principles: The Pushback on my Tesla Valuation

Musings on Markets

Finally, my starting cost of capital of 10.15% reflects the reality that the riskfree rate and equity risk premiums have risen over 2022, and my ending number of 9% is an indication that I expect Tesla to become less risky over time.

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The 2023 AICPA Business Valuation Conference and One Thought on Valuation Adjustments

Chris Mercer

I arrived in Las Vegas early Sunday evening on November 13th for the 2022 AICPA & CIMA Forensic and Valuation Services Conference. The expected terminal value for the illiquid investment based on the financial control value of $18.0 The present value based on these assumptions is $11.65 million is about $29.0