Most owners find out what their business is worth when they are already selling it. Find out now, in writing, from a former Fortune 500 CFO, while there is still time to change the answer.
Start with a free range. The full written valuation is $895.
Most owners sell one business in their lifetime, and it is usually the one paying for their retirement. It deserves better than a rule of thumb, a calculator, or a hunch.
The number is not fixed. Much of what holds a business’s value down is within its owner’s control, given the time to deal with it.
What the business is worth, why, and which changes would move it, each one priced in dollars.
Most cost nothing but a decision: step out of estimating, put the service agreements in writing, spread the customers out.
At a number you have already defended, to a buyer whose accountant finds nothing you did not already know.
Ron Them is a former Fortune 500 chief financial officer, and for years since he has taught advisors how valuation, cash flow and money management work. He reads your figures the way a buyer’s accountant will, and he writes down every step.
When it is time to sell, Ron handles the sale of the business and Sharon Scheidemantle takes the building to market. One team from the first number to the closing table, so nobody starts the analysis over.
Who we are→What a buyer would pay for its earnings, which is rarely what the tax return suggests. A return is prepared to reduce what you owe, not to show what you are worth.
So the report rebuilds your earnings line by line, then prices them against 9,079 closed sales of small businesses across 135 subsectors.
Yes, and it is valued on its own, by sales comparison and by income. The business and the building are two assets with two different buyers. Valued as one they are almost always priced wrong, and the error usually runs in the buyer’s favor.
Every report ends with the answer: the changes worth making before a sale, in order, each with what it is worth in dollars. It is the section owners read twice.
Start with the free range: a handful of questions you can answer from memory. The full written valuation is $895, and it comes back to you within three to five business days.
If you decide to list the business or the building with Ron, the valuation is part of that work rather than a separate bill.
No, and we will never call it one. An appraisal is the licensed document a bank lends against. This is an opinion of value: what your business is worth today, why, and what would change it. It is the right document for planning, for a partner conversation, or for deciding whether to go to market.
You do. It opens in your own secure portal, and you can give your accountant or attorney their own access and take it back at any time.
A free range in a few minutes, from questions you can answer from memory. A written valuation from Ron when you need it to hold up.
