About Business Value Now
Which of the three approaches to value fits this business, and what each one demands
What is on this site
One question, "how to value a business", answered with a checker that works on the page with no account, 4 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- The three business valuation approaches, and how to choose: Asset-based, market and income. What each one is actually measuring, the evidence each needs, and why the IRS tells its own people to consider all three.
- SDE or EBITDA: which earnings figure is yours: Owner's discretionary earnings and EBITDA are different measures for different buyers. Getting the wrong one produces a valuation that is wrong before the multiple.
- What actually drives the multiple, and why we publish none: A multiple is an output of comparable transactions, not an input you can look up. What raises and lowers it, and why a published range without comparables is a guess.
- Getting the records ready before any valuation: Every approach runs on the accounts. What to separate, what to normalise and what to reconcile, and why twelve months is the target rather than twelve days.
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Business Value Now is an independent site operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Internal Revenue Service, the Small Business Administration or any government body, and it is not an appraisal firm, a broker-dealer or a tax adviser. Nothing here is a valuation, an appraisal, or advice on a transaction or a filing. We publish no multiple, no discount rate and no valuation range anywhere on this site, because no public source sets one for a particular business and a figure without comparable transactions behind it launders a guess into a number. Everything stated as a requirement is taken from IRS guidance cited on this page and read on the date shown. We take no commission from any valuation firm or broker and carry no paid placements.