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Business Valuation for Transportation and Warehousing

GCF Value

Because of this, business valuation plays a crucial role in strategic decisions, whether buying, selling, or expanding operations within this sector. Proper valuation ensures shareholders can maximize their value, whether they are buying, selling, or seeking to expand their operations.

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Seller’s Discretionary Earnings Explained

Viking Mergers

as well as, “How does this compare to other businesses of a similar size?”. In addition to SDE, another relevant earnings measure is EBITDA. Non-operating revenue is unrelated to the business operations, such as interest revenue, rent from a property owned through the business or sale of equipment or part of the business.

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Challenges When Valuing a Business for SBA Lending

Peak Business Valuation

Here are some of the key challenges we often encounter when valuing a business for SBA lending purposes. And, how the team at Peak Business Valuation provides effective solutions. Peak Business Valuation provides SBA business valuations for more than 90 SBA lenders across the country.

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How to Value a Tree Service Business

Equilest

Income-Based Valuation This forward-looking approach estimates the present value of the business's future cash flows. Discounted Cash Flow (DCF): This method involves projecting future earnings and discounting them to present value.

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

Chris Mercer

I have heard many appraisers suggest that one should not normalize owner compensation when valuing minority interests “because the minority shareholder cannot change compensation.” Travis Harms and I cover the topic of normalizing adjustments in our book, Business Valuation: An Integrated Theory Third Edition , on pages 117-123.