3 Important Questions to Ask Your Business Appraiser
- February 13th, 2012
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Do you ever wonder which questions you should ask your business appraiser when it comes down to it? Well, here are 3 of the most common concerns that clients tend to ask when it comes to business appraisals.
1. Are there any discounts that apply to me?
Valuation discounts usually include discounts for lack of marketability, lack of control or lack of voting rights, portfolio discounts, key person discounts and blockage discounts. The most common ones would be the discounts for lack of marketability and lack of control, though.
2. Is it really important to have a business valuation every year?
An appraiser will usually tell you that a business valuation comes with various benefits – and this is true. For one, a business valuation will help your shareholders see whether your firms’ management is consistently creating or destroying its value. Aside from that, however, it would also be important for estate-planning purposes, buy and sell situations, investment expansions and banking situations.
3. Which factors will impact my business’s overall value?
Business value is affected by various factors, a lot of which tend to change from one year to the next. However, every appraiser will agree that these factors are always important in figuring out a business’s value: its financial performance, its growth prospects, the industry’s competitive nature, its management, and the condition of the industry and the economy. This just goes to show that not everything is actually in the hand of the business or the business owner. Think about it.
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