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Mark Ahern, CVA, CEPAFounder & CEO, AMP Business Valuations
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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 |
Top 3 Tips for Small Business Buyers We review over a hundred small business transactions each year. Buying a business can be a complicated process, especially for a first-time business owner. Entrepreneurship through acquisition “ETA” has become increasingly popular, but we wanted to share some insights to assist buyers in negotiating a fair price. 1. Add-backs - Seller add-backs for personal or discretionary spending is a murky area. An an appraiser, some add backs make sense and others do not. 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. |