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A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-471-15047-3
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304 pages
January 2002
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Introduction vii

Chapter 1 Setting the Stage . . . This Business of Valuing Small, Closely Held Companies 1

Chapter 2 Dispelling Perceptions about Value (Because It’s a Rascal We Can’t Really Ignore) 8

Chapter 3 Intangible Values 17

Chapter 4 Industry and Economic Forces 23

Chapter 5 The ‘‘Four Steeds’’ in Business Valuation 29

Chapter 6 Nontraditional Valuation Practitioners 32

Chapter 7 The Data Collection Process 36

Chapter 8 Setting the Records Straight 40

Chapter 9 Valuation Techniques 46

Chapter 10 Practicing with an Excess Earnings Method 61

Prelude to Case Examples of Small-Business Valuation 69

Chapter 11 Professional-Practice Valuation 71

Chapter 12 Small Manufacturer Valuation (With Ratio Studies) 87

Chapter 13 Valuation of a Restaurant 107

Chapter 14 Seventy Cents on the Dollar 124

Chapter 15 Retail Home-Decorating Business Valuation (With Production and Retail Sales) 137

Chapter 16 Retail Hardware Stores 158

Chapter 17 Retail Garden Center 170

Chapter 18 Grocery Store 188

Chapter 19 Manufacturer with Mail-Order Sales 204

Chapter 20 Wholesale Distributor 220

Chapter 21 A Practice Session: A Marina Valuation 236

Chapter 22 Concluding Thoughts about Value and Price 250

Chapter 23 “Dot-Com”—Information Technology 256

Appendix A Valuation of a Marina: Author’s Responses 274

Appendix B Yegge’s Rules for Making Deals Work 289

About the Author 291

Index 293

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