SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: Valuation Experts Clash Over Analysis of Transactional Data

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 24 No. 4
April 2018
Howard A. Lewis, MS, AVA
Ronald D. Rudich, CPA/ABV/CFF, MST, MCBA, CVA/ABAR/MAFF CM&AA, CMEA
Toby Tatum, CBA
private company transaction data
bizcomps, market approach, guideline companies, guideline transaction method, statistics

Summary

Listeners to a webinar on the use of the BIZCOMPS database have taken issue with a number of points presented, including stratifying the data, filtering, the R-square coefficient, harmonic mean, minimum number of transactions, the elimination of outliers, market multiples, and more.