Viking Mergers

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Today, he employs that skillset in the nuanced world of M&A, finding buyers for sellers, and sellers for buyers. For example, get a ‘state of the union’ valuation, clean up your books, and don’t wait so long that you become too tired or burned out to do the things that will help get you top dollar.”.

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IBG Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Fundamentally, what a business is really worth is a number between what the owner will take and what the best buyer will pay. The range presented by those numbers is where negotiations can bring the two together, assuming the buyer’s maximum is equal to or more than the seller’s minimum. They, too, are potential adjustments.

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A Neumann & Associates

APRIL 6, 2023

Given my background and experience, hardly a week goes by without a business owner asking me that all important question – “Tommy, what is the best way to go about finding buyers for my business?” Too often, fancy national firms with big advertising budgets just troll for sellers, sign them up, and never deliver.

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IBG Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

That excerpt from a long-ago IBG Business article recently came to mind when one of our M&A advisors discovered and began quoting from Michael Gerber’s 1988 best-seller, The E-Myth: Why Most Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. Solutions in Print.

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Appraisers Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

I have saved articles, old text books, AI text books, Realtor blogs, etc that help me in determining the mindset of our industry and help me in making sure I know what “best practices” are being used. If you are in a market where the Realtor Board actually reports seller concessions, deem yourself lucky.

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IT Valuations

MARCH 23, 2022

It can be frustrating thinking that you’re doing all the right things (streamlining your processes, reducing operational costs, providing best-in-class services), but then continuing to come up short. Seriously, what must a seller DO to be sought after and worth more in the marketplace? The good news is that the solution is simple.

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IT Valuations

MARCH 1, 2021

In order to find the best fit, you need to identify and document your strengths as an organization such as management, customer insight, and cultural orientation, market nuances, and even your liabilities. Due diligence investigation your seller will undertake. The same holds true for the accountant involved in your transaction.

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Gergory Caruso

JANUARY 30, 2022

The best a business valuator can do is issue an “Opinion” as to business value. In addition, since a business valuation is not an actual “sale”, we have to make assumptions about who is the buyer and who is the seller along with the timeline for the sale. A price is what a buyer pays a seller. This is called a Standard of Value.

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IT Valuations

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Here are costs most that most sellers forget to report prior to a sale: PTO (Paid Time Off) time for employees: This is a liability charge. Book backlog (or “deferred revenue”): If a customer bought an x number of services in advance, but you haven’t provided those services yet, that revenue belongs to the buyer.

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A Neumann & Associates

MARCH 3, 2022

The valuation should accurately identify sellers discretionary cash flow (or the true benefit of ownership on an annual basis) as well as the assets included in a sale. Unlike selling real estate where everything is out in the open and publicly marketed, the sale of a business should be completed in complete secrecy as best as possible.

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Brian DeChesare

MARCH 8, 2023

This type of trading requires you to connect buyers and sellers and ensure, for example, that oil can flow between continents without being stolen by pirates, ninjas, or evil robots. Regional market dynamics are important here, as are your relationships with the buyers, sellers, and freighters. wheat seller to a buyer in China.

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Scott Mashuda

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

From this knowledge, an investment banker can negotiate the best offer based on your situation and goals. Sellers who dig in their heels too deep will often find themselves navigating a much smaller pool of prospective buyers. Our structured process allows you to create competition in the market and drive additional value.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Airbnb's revenue share has stayed stable : As gross bookings have increased, Airbnb's share of these bookings has remained stable, ranging from 12-13% of overall revenues. Note that cancellations exceeded bookings in March and April, at the height of the global shutdown, but have come back surprisingly well in the months after.

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Peak Business Valuation

JUNE 4, 2023

We invite you to book a free consultation. This knowledge helps business owners choose wisely when buying, selling, upgrading, or investing in equipment, ensuring they get the best financial results. Sellers can benefit by setting realistic prices. At Peak Business Valuation , we specialize in conducting these appraisals.

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Peak Business Valuation

JULY 5, 2023

These are key to valuing a bookkeeping firm if you plan to buy or sell a book of business. The best way to start is by receiving a business valuation. This multiple compares the seller’s discretionary earnings of the bookkeeping firm to the implied value of the business. Schedule a Free Consultation!

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Brian DeChesare

JANUARY 10, 2024

When a deal becomes “active” in IB, you dive into it and go in-depth into all aspects, from the financials to the buyer/seller outreach to the presentations and more. So, you won’t pull all-nighters to finish pitch books , and you won’t be called in over the weekend to make last-minute changes to a model.

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IBG Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Noting that trucking might seem like an outlier when discussing the oil-and-gas industry, Gary noted that he and his IBG colleagues consistently leverage their industry knowledge and influence to serve sellers in related industries – such as trucking. Luckily, our seller had a very good accountant who was at the table.

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Brian DeChesare

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Execution Trading – You take your team’s investment ideas and execute them at the best price and terms to maximize profits on the trade. Of all the hedge fund strategies , global macro is the best fit for most traders because: It matches up directly with popular desks like rates trading , FX, and commodities.

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FE International

MARCH 23, 2022

As the market-leading advisor for SaaS business sales, the team at FE International answers questions every day about the best practices of selling a SaaS business and which SaaS metrics should be measured. Either SDE or EBITDA is considered the best proxy for the business’ future cash flows and is therefore the basis of its valuation.

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Viking Mergers

APRIL 24, 2023

That’s why we work with our sellers over the long term to identify areas where they can better maximize their business value and achieve their goals. In creating your exit strategy, the findings in the business valuation inform what that strategy looks like and when the timing is best. There could be several reasons.

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Brian DeChesare

APRIL 6, 2022

based public sellers worth more than $100 million over the past 3 years and got the following deal counts (retail is not broken out separately): Consumer Discretionary: 26 / 31 (~84% of all M&A deals > $100 million). Example Valuations, Pitch Books, Fairness Opinions, and Investor Presentations. For Further Reading.

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Sun M&A

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Being prepared not only means getting your books and records organized and preparing a quality descriptive executive summary of your company, it also involves educating yourself to properly address the common questions that will inevitably be asked by prospective acquirers. Two to four ideas listed in order of importance will suffice.

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FE International

DECEMBER 31, 2021

From experience of over 1000 transactions , we’ve pulled together some of the best practices from our most experienced investors and snippets of knowledge from our own acquisitions to provide some guidance for new and seasoned buyers alike to answer: how do you value a website or internet business? Precedent Transactions.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The resulting debate among accountants about how to bring intangibles on to the books has spilled over into valuation practice, and many appraisers and analysts are wrongly, in my view, letting the accounting debate affect how they value companies. So, how far has accounting come in bringing intangible assets on to balance sheets?

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IBG Business

MAY 31, 2023

Understanding the traits common to each buyer category can help sellers level the playing field in a business sale of any size. In middle-market business sales, the value of the deal and the path to a successful closing are shaped in large part by a factor that many sellers underestimate: the type of buyer that is evaluating your company.

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Scott Mashuda

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

For a majority of M&A Brokers, the conditions and prohibitions in this statute are consistent with their current best professional practices. Approximately two dozen states already have laws on the books that harmonize with the federal law and it is likely that other states will follow suit. M&A Brokers Defined in H.R.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 26, 2022

In fact, he borrowed the name “James Bond” from the author of a beloved childhood book on birds. Thus, in January, the Commission proposed a new definition for “exchange” that would cover additional fixed income platforms and some systems that bring together buyers and sellers for other securities asset classes. [21]. No” hit theaters.

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IVSC

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Needless to say, the highest and best use analysis was tricky. It’s like a book you and a friend have both read and can intelligently speak about and compare notes. While the concept of market value, willing buyer – willing seller, on a given date, etc. taxpayer dollars A fundamental principle of real estate is ‘uniqueness’.

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IBG Business

MARCH 11, 2022

Buyers and Sellers Usually Have a Very Different View of the Value of a Business. Understand what buyers are looking for and put plans in place to make your company attractive to a “best fit” buyer. Talking to marketing consultants, reading books or searching the Internet are ways to find out what is working for others.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 24, 2021

While services use sampling techniques to obtain prices of goods and service from sellers, and often double check them against consumer expenditures, there is no practical way that you can survey every retailer and consumer. The sampling used to arrive at the final numbers can create error in the final estimate.

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

We also have seen plaintiffs’ firms use voting agreements delivered by high-vote stockholders as a basis for Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) 220 books and records demands, which enables the plaintiffs to review the books and records of the subject company in an effort to uncover bases for additional, unrelated claims.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 2, 2023

Integrity and disclosure facilitate what can be the best of capital markets and guard against the worst. 15] Thus, we have proposals that would reduce information asymmetries between borrowers and sellers in the securities-lending market [16] and make aggregate data about large short positions available to the public. [17]

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

You see similar movements in the price to book, where the stock has gone from trading under book value to 6.7 times book value, and the enterprise value, which was less than revenue in 2016-21 to 2.71 times revenues in the most recent two years.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 5, 2023

Additionally, shareholders have continued to file securities and derivative actions challenging ESG disclosures and are using books and records requests to obtain information to support their claims. Although those rules are still pending, the agency has brought enforcement actions challenging ESG disclosures under the existing regime.

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