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Very
few business valuation professional can match the extensive marketplace
experience Lighthouse Financial brings to business valuations. Our reports
are unique in that they are based upon experience gained in valuing and
selling more than 2,000 businesses (firms with revenues ranging
from $100,000 to $50,000,000). Our
proprietary data base of transaction data, plus transaction experience,
gives us the ability to produce a reality based report rather than
scholarly and academic treatises that can only be understood by CPAs,
MBAs and PHDs.
When you finish reading your report you not
only know the real value of your business but you also have:
 Valuable
Strategic Planning Tool,
Value Enhancement Recommendations,
Description of your Ideal Acquirer (for when the time
comes),
Estimated Fair Cash Value,
Estimated Fair Market Value (if you were to participate
in the financing),
Probable Transaction Structure
Strategic Planning Tool
Understand
how to build VALUE in addition to profits
Benchmark your
business practices compared with those of others in your industry
Identify
opportunities for improvement
Value Enhancement
Recommendations
Specific
recommendations to enhance the value of the enterprise
Gain control
of business’s value
Ability to
include value enhancement considerations in future decision
Description of Ideal
Buyer/Investor
Gain an
understanding of the different buyers in today’s marketplace, what
they will pay and why
Preserve
confidentiality and value by limiting marketplace exposures
Only
"right buyers" who pay "right prices" need be
introduced to company
Reduce
possibility of becoming shop worn
Fair Cash Value
Understand
how asset values, cash flows, bank financing and business environment
combine to produce a cash price
Provide
basis for consideration of seller participation in financing a
transaction
Fair Market Value
(ASA* definition includes seller
financing)
Ability to
compare cash price with a price where seller provides some financing
Make
an informed decision to participate
based upon amount involved and
quality of the buyer
* American Society of Appraisers
Transaction
Structuring
Identify
structure best suited to minimizing tax impact (It’s not what you
get but what
you get to keep that’s important)
Structure
the transaction so the business will stay sold
Construct
a win win transaction
Summary
With a Lighthouse Financial
report for your
business you will know how to:
Gain control
of your company’s value
Build
value in addition to earning profits
Make
decisions designed to increase value as well as profits
Sell your
business for the most money quickly and quietly when the time comes
View
of your business from the outside in
Understand
factors that drive your company’s value
Enjoy
the ability to control and grow your company’s worth while
increasing profits
Gain
insight as to your company’s value based upon experience gained in
over 2,000 transactions
Be
able to structure a transaction that increases value, minimizes taxes
and risks
As you can see, you get more than
just numbers when Lighthouse Financial develops a survey for
your business. In
addition, the report will satisfy the requirements of IRS Revenue Ruling
59-60.
Reports include: a complete text
summarizing the results of a comprehensive business and financial
analyses that includes:
financial statement and
balance sheet adjustments,
projections,
ratio analysis,
risk
analysis,
bankability analysis,
justification
of purchase price,
probable
transaction structure and
comparison
with industry.
This report is often used for mergers and
acquisitions as much of the "due diligence" necessary for the
acquisition of a company is accomplished in the process of valuation.
Who needs this service?
Business owners and their advisors who wish
to know the real value of their business and understand how to its
Increase its value or need to establish Value for:
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Buy-Outs |
Bank Loans |
Strategic Growth |
Growth via Acquisition |
Buy-Ins |
Going
Public |
Estate
Planning |
Prepare
Business for Sale |
ESOPs |
Refinancing |
Attract Investors |
Sale
of Company |
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