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Exit Planning Articles by Mark Ahern, CVA, CEPA

Mark Ahern, CVA, CEPA
Founder & CEO, AMP Business Valuations | ampbusinessvaluations.com

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Mark Ahern is the Founder & CEO of AMP Business Valuations; he started Amp Business Valuations in late 2020. He has a background in financial services and a passion for helping small businesses. Mark was formally trained in commercial real estate and C&I credit. He also held posts in retail banking, retail mortgage, and loan operations. Mark earned an MBA from DePaul University and teaches Business Finance at Regis University. .
 
 

Recent Articles posted by Mark Ahern, CVA, CEPA

Recent Articles posted by Mark Ahern, CVA, CEPA

How to Value Your Business

Valuing a business can be an extremely complex process when the audience is the IRS or the Court System, but for most business owners trying to get a sense of their business value for the purpose of a sale it is more straightforward. We’ve created this guide for business owners to gain a better understanding of the fundamentals of business value and spark some ideas around exit planning. This guide focuses on privately held businesses in mature industries, not tech start-ups. This includes “Main Street” businesses to lower middle market businesses. Let’s group them together and call them “SMBs”, a popular acronym to define small and medium-sized businesses. Before we dive into the numbers, it is important to define the key stakeholders.