Info For Owners

If you own a business, congratulations - because you are on the surest path to wealth. According to the New York Times bestseller The Millionaire Next Door (Stanley & Danko, Pocket Books, 1996), 64% of American millionaires achieved their wealth by owning a business.

But business owners are shockingly misinformed about what their businesses are worth. SPARDATA has valued over 27,000 businesses since 1990 and we have not yet met an owner who did not have, in the back of his or her mind, SOME GUESS about what the business was worth. The fact is, those guesses are usually wrong. A recent unpublished SPARDATA study of over 2,000 business owners found owners often misjudge the value of their businesses by 50% or more - sometimes by millions of dollars!

Five Lessons	Owner Briefings
Lesson 1: Owners Make Bad Appraisers Lesson 2: Ignorance Is Costly Lesson 3: Why Rules-Of-Thumb Do Not Work Lesson 4: I Will Ask My CPA Lesson 5: How Appraisers Value A Business	Business Owners: More Estate Planning Buy Sell Agreements Cashing Out Charitable Remainder Trusts Cross Purchase Agreements C Versus S Corporations Divorce Can Kill A Business ESOPs Exit Planning Estate Planning For Business Owners Family Feuds Family Limited Partnerships Gifting Stock Government Giveaways Limited Partnership Trades Living Trusts Phantom Stock Options Revenue Ruling 59-60 Risk Management Selling Your Business Succession Planning SWOT Analysis Top 9 Reasons to Value Your Business Valuation of Fractional Interests
Sample Valuations
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