Are you creating value or destroying it?

Entry planning: Know your exit before you enter.

PUZZLED?

• You are not profitable
• You are less profitable
• You do not know where your profits come from
• You do not know what drives business value 
• You are profitable but have no cash
• You invested more capital but are less profitable
• Your sales are growing but are less profitable
• You are working harder but are less profitable 
• You are profitable but cannot sell your business

GENERAL VALUATION CONSULTING PURPOSES

• Tactical planning (short-term)
• Strategic or business planning (long-term)
• Mediation (non-binding dispute resolution)

SPECIFIC VALUATION CONSULTING PURPOSES

• Big business practices for small businesses
• Breakeven analysis (cost-volume-profit analysis)
• Base and pool costs
• Business plans
• Buying or selling a business
• Contribution margin
• Cash flow analysis
• Cost accounting
• Cost objectives
• Cost, profit and service centers
• Cost of capital
• Cost of equity
• Direct and indirect costs
• Economic value added (EVA)
• Entry planning (know your exit before you enter)
• Exit planning
• Financial engineering
• Fixed and variable costs
• Direct and indirect costs
• Prime and conversion costs
• Industry and peer analysis
• Market value added (MVA)
• Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
• Net present value (NPV)
• Internal rate of return (IRR)
• Ratio analysis
• Rules-of-thumb
• Sniff test or sanity check
• Total cost input (TCI)
• Value driver analysis
• Valuation consulting
• Valuation formulas
• Valuation approaches and methods
• Mediation services:
• Divorce
• Partnership disputes
• Shareholder disputes
• Buying or selling a business