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Business Valuation for Dummies

Business Valuation For Dummies, co-authored by Jim Bates, a partner at Sports Club Advisors and Jackim Woods & Co., is filled with expert guidance that business owners and buyers can use when determining the value of a business. It contains a solid framework for valuation, including advice on analyzing historical performance, evaluating assets and income value, understanding a company’s financial statements, estimating the cost of capital, business valuation models, and how to apply those models to different types of businesses.

Want to determine the value of a business, but not sure where to start? This plain-English guide gives you step-by-step directions for the major valuation methods, supporting them with real-world examples. You’ll work with easy-to-understand valuation models and apply them to different types of businesses to achieve the fairest, most affordable valuation solution.

The book provides key valuation tools to help you understand valuation reports, financial statements, and “rule of thumb” guidelines for specific businesses.

Business Valuation for Dummies

Business Valuation For Dummies, co-authored by Jim Bates, a partner at Sports Club Advisors and Jackim Woods & Co. is filled with expert guidance that business owners and buyers can use when determining the value of a business. It contains a solid framework for valuation, including advice on analyzing historical performance, evaluating assets and income value, understanding a company’s financial statements, estimating the cost of capital, business valuation models, and how to apply those models to different types of businesses.

The $10 Trillion Opportunity

The $10 Trillion Opportunity, written by Rich Jackim, co-founder of Jackim Woods & Co. and Sports Club Advisors, started a paradigm shift in the business broker and M&A world for small and medium size companies. This critically acclaimed book makes the case that with the baby boomer generation approaching retirement age, it is more important than ever for business owners to develop a strategic exit plan for their business. Exit planning is a process that asks and answers all of the personal, business, financial, legal, estate and tax issues involved in selling or exiting from a privately held business.

The $10 Trillion Opportunity

The $10 Trillion Opportunity, written by Rich Jackim, co-founder of Jackim Woods & Co. and Sports Club Advisors, started a paradigm shift in the business broker and M&A world for small and medium size companies. This critically acclaimed book makes the case that with the baby boomer generation approaching retirement age, it is more important than ever for business owners to develop a strategic exit plan for their business. Exit planning is a process that asks and answers all of the personal, business, financial, legal, estate and tax issues involved in selling or exiting from a privately held business.

Written for business advisors and other professionals, the $10 Trillion Opportunity is a logically structured book with a no-nonsense approach to exploring and addressing a topic that is often misunderstood and at times overwhelming for business owners and their advisors alike. The surge of interest this book created led to the creation of the Exit Planning Institute, which is now the leading exit planning organization in the world.