Customer Reviews

The Small Business Valuation Book (Adams Expert Advice for Small Business)

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This book wasn't bad, especially for the price, but there are better ones out there. ("The Upstart Guide to Buying, Valuing and Selling Your Business" for example.) About half the book is special situations or special types of companies, which is great if you happen to be one of those but not if you aren't. This book did cover the basics of business valuation, but I actually found it more useful for looking at the value of a business as a tool to improve its operations.

I work as a business intermediary assisting clients in both selling and buying their business. I always recommend that first-time business buyers and sellers read this book so that they may acqaint themselves with the process.

This book is good for a quick overview of some valuation methods, but I found it to be a little too simplified, although it's not bad for mom-and-pop retail and service businesses. If you are actually don't going to do the calculations and want more professional results, take a look at "Unlocking the Value of Your Business".

Good book for general knowledge and some analysis. Needs more in-depth coverage in the area of micro businesses! One thing thoroughly frustrating was no reference to author's site for downloadable contents like templates and or example spreadsheets which would provide for modifications to suit. Would highly recommend inclusion of cd-rom.

Since my previous experience was in large companies, I bought the book to help me in the process of buying a small company. It gave me good insight of the differences when dealing with small companies. Good resource.

Provides a summary treatment of this subject, but a book I like better is "Unlocking the Value of Your Business", which seems to be more complete, but easy to use and understand.

Recommended highly, but for persons with a strong background in Accounting, Business and Finance. Not for the beginner. A Harvard Education helps..

First shipment seemed lost, and after notice given I got immediate replacement. Thanks a lot!