Compare Apples to Apples: Investigating the Differences in Transactional Databases

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 19 No. 3
March 2013
C. Fred Hall, III, MBA, CBA, AVA

Summary

BIZCOMPS, Pratt’s Stats, and the Institute of Business Appraisers (IBA) database are the most common databases appraisers use to obtain transactional data. Each of these assembles transactional data using different stated procedures. As a result, rather t ...