If you are considering selling your business, remember that there are positive factors that influence value and those that detract from it. Looking at your business from a buyer’s perspective is important since a prudent buyer will be adding and subtracting these various factors when arriving at an asking price. It is perhaps more important to recognize when the buyer arrives at a price which he or she will leave the negotiations. Buyers naturally try to buy the business at the lowest price possible, however, must also have a top price over which they are probably not willing to go. Here are some of the “high value” indicators as well as some of the “low value” indicators to consider when evaluating your business.
Considering the above factors and how to address them can help a seller look at the business through the eyes of a potential buyer. Utah Business Consultants will also help the business owner sort through the many areas that buyers consider when looking at a business and trying to arrive at an initial offering price.
Wayne A. Simpson CPA, CBI is a Managing Partner at Utah Business Consultants and a Certified Business Intermediary with the International Business Brokers Association. Utah Business Consultants is a full-service Business Brokerage and Valuation firm.