Determining the right valuation for a company is critical for a potential investor. While there are typically various points of negotiation (the purchase agreement, legal rights, governance, the form ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mark T. Osler Gary Miller, SDR Ventures. Many sellers of privately owned businesses overvalue their companies. This mistake is a major reason why businesses ...

Explore how FIFO and LIFO inventory methods affect your balance sheet, cost of goods sold, and net profit. Understand why ...

BDC Consulting’s most important mission is to help clients optimize the value of their business. The question then becomes: how do you assess a company’s value correctly? In this article, we will talk ...

In my May 2012 ValueNation column, I noted that while we are seeing the housing market start to level out, there are still a significant number of properties in default or foreclosure. These nearly ...

While you can establish the value of many goods by offering them for sale, the contingent valuation method represents another method of establishing value. This method is especially useful for ...

Not all valuation methods are created equal. Guidance on measuring intrinsic value. Investing is about earning a financial return. Valuation is at the heart of investing—you need to find a good ...

As an angel investor, this is one of my first questions when talking to founders for a potential investment. And often, I hear numbers that are either too low or very high. For instance, a founder who ...

Valuing pre-revenue tech startups is an established process today, but do the methods employed apply equally to pre-revenue companies using novel artificial intelligence? What kind of issues arise ...