Business Valuation in Plain English: A Guide to Understanding Your Business Appraiser’s Work

The process of having your business valued can be daunting for the small business owner. And it can be invasive, to say the least. A complete stranger asks for – and expects to get – documents that you as an owner don’t even share with most employees, and with a level of depth that makes you wonder whether you ever even had that sort of document. And then, the appraiser wants to follow the request for documents with an interview in which that same stranger (and sometimes her assistant) asks...