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Business Valuation Bluebook, How Entrepreneurs Buy, Sell and Trade
 
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Proven Valuation Strategies for small business entrepreneurs, brokers and business professionals. Includes: Checklists for due diligence investigations; RPM Calculator that measures business risk; Valuation techniques to determine business price; Confidence Index to confirm value; Analysis - Borrow money and increase return; Tactics buyers use to pay less; Sellers' techniques to negotiate from strength; Exchanging Strategies that defer capital gains taxes. With these tools entrepreneurs buy for the lowest price and sell for the highest. Learn both and gain a key negotiating advantage - Price Is Power!

There are 23 million small businesses. Most people who own, buy and serve them do not know what these businesses are worth. Books of business valuation are hard to find, time consuming to read, difficult to understand and expensive. In fact an independently produced marketing survey reveals out of 10 books and one subscription service on the topic of business valuation the range of prices is from $49.95 to $295 with an average price of $118.49. In addition, it short, to the point, easy to navigate, understand and use. It even fits right in your pocket so it is a handy resource to help you price business right the first time - everytime.

The Business Valuation Bluebook, use it to value businesses before going to the negotiating table. Written by a professional for business and real estate brokers, bankers, accountants, attorneys, estate and financial planners, insurance agents and entrepreneurs everywhere who want to buy sell and trade a small business.

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Book like this harm the industry
 
Review Date: July 30, 2009
Reviewer: Timour Chayipov, calgary, canada
very poor book. Evaluation is wrong, according to this method companies will be overpriced by at least 50%. Example in the book is very bad - company which make 13000 per year cash flow plus 18000 owner's salary (my 18 years old girl make more than that) can not worst 180000 dollars, I doubt that it worst 50000. Plus author even doesn't know what is FREE CASH FLOW mean (high school economics).
Books like this harm the industry because set unrealistic expectation and businesses stuck in listing for years and never will be sold
Good for bedside reading and theory
 
Review Date: September 19, 2006
Reviewer: Erik Larsson,
This book is a very basic, readable overview of small business valuation, which primarily offers the underlying theories and reasons behind different business valuation methods. It also includes a discussion of why one should be considering purchasing a small business in the first place. It does not include actual formulas or calculations that one would need for creating a specific value for a business, but rather gives you a working understanding of how small businesses are valued.

If you would like a fairly enjoyable read on the basics of small business valuation theory then this book makes a good choice. If you are trying to come up with an actual value for a specific business, look elsewhere.
Lots of Fluff
 
Review Date: November 11, 2000
Reviewer: TX Flyer, Houston, TX USA
Out of 244 pages, only about 20 of them deal with valuation calculation. Most of the book is basic accounting vocabulary. The sections dealing with valuation don't leave you thinking that you could actually put together a reasonable estimate of business value, and most of the valuation models require the use of a very subjectively computed Risk Price Multiple (RPM). Some good information, but overall I would recommend seeking an another resource.

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