Industry Publications

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2025 Business Reference Guide

January 2025 Softcover

Tom West

Business Brokerage Press

With up-to-date rules of thumb and pricing details on more than 800 types of businesses, this guide is a must-have for transaction brokers, accountants, attorneys, business appraisers, banks, business-lending institutions, professional advisors—anyone involved with privately owned business. Learn more >>
$164.00

What It’s Worth: Valuing Limited-Service Restaurants

August 2024 PDF (187 pages)

BVR (editor)

Business Valuation Resources, LLC

Serve up a feast of knowledge and master the most pressing business considerations in the restaurant industry. This report examines how limited-service restaurants operate, current industry trends, valuation approaches, special situations unique to the industry and other critical factors. Learn more >>
$205.00

FactSet Review, 2024

May 2024 Hardcover, PDF

FactSet Mergerstat

Business Valuation Resources, LLC

The FactSet Review is the cornerstone of every mergers and acquisitions library. This must-have publication delivers comprehensive rosters, data and statistics on merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions that involve U.S. companies, including privately held, publicly traded and cross–border transactions.  And, as always, the Review is the most reliable source for premiums by year and industry multiples. Learn more >>
$579.00

What It’s Worth: Valuing Jewelry Stores

November 2023 PDF (113 pages)

BVR (editor)

Business Valuation Resources, LLC

Stay appraised of all the latest methodologies in the jewelry industry! The report explains how jewelry stores operate, the nature of their revenue streams, value drivers, the industry environment, the risks involved, and other factors. Learn more >>
$205.00

FactSet Review, 2023

May 2023 Hardcover, PDF

FactSet Mergerstat

Business Valuation Resources, LLC

The FactSet Review is the cornerstone of every mergers and acquisitions library. This must-have publication delivers comprehensive rosters, data and statistics on merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions that involve U.S. companies, including privately held, publicly traded and cross–border transactions.  And, as always, the Review is the most reliable source for premiums by year and industry multiples. Learn more >>
$579.00

Cannabis Industry Accounting and Appraisal Guide, 2nd edition

May 2023 Hardcover, PDF (340 pages)

Brenda Clarke, Ron Seigneur, Stacey Udell

With the Second Edition of The Cannabis Industry Accounting and Appraisal Guide, authors Stacey Udell, Ron Seigneur and Brenda Clarke, distill their wealth of experience into over 340 pages of must-read insights, for anyone involved in this fascinating, rapidly evolving industry sector, including bookkeepers and accountants, lawyers, management and ownership and other advisors.  Learn more >>
$74.00

What It’s Worth: Valuing Fitness Centers, Health Clubs, and Gyms

February 2023 PDF (146 pages)

BVR (editor)

Business Valuation Resources, LLC

Valuing fitness centers and gyms can provide a serious workout for even veterans of the business valuation field. Make sure you're up to date with all the latest considerations and industry-specific challenges, with this must-read report. Learn more >>
$205.00

What It's Worth: Valuing Nightclubs, Bars, and Adult Cabarets

July 2022 PDF (198 pages)

BVR (editor)

Business Valuation Resources, LLC

This report provides a solid foundational understanding of the business of nightclubs, bars, and adult cabarets. It explains how these firms operate, the nature of their revenue streams, value drivers, the industry environment, the risks involved, and other key factors for valuation professional and any other stakeholder in a related business.  Learn more >>
$199.00

FactSet Mergerstat Review, 2022

June 2022 PDF

FactSet Mergerstat

Business Valuation Resources, LLC

The Mergerstat Review is the cornerstone of every mergers and acquisitions library. This must-have publication delivers comprehensive rosters, data and statistics on merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions that involve U.S. companies, including privately held, publicly traded and cross–border transactions.  And, as always, the Review is the most reliable source for premiums by year and industry multiples. Learn more >>
$299.00

What It's Worth: Valuing Insurance Agencies

September 2021 PDF

BVR (editor)

Business Valuation Resources, LLC

What It’s Worth: Valuing Insurance Agencies takes a deep dive into the unique considerations for insurance agency and brokerage valuation – as well as the long-term outlook for consumer preferences and financial performance. The report draws upon the best data and industry sources available, summarizes key insights and appraisal factors, and will help guide your professional judgment in determining a conclusion of value that is as reliable as ever. Learn more >>
$199.00

Benchmarking Identifiable Intangibles and Their Useful Lives in Business Combinations, Third Edition

August 2021 PDF, Softcover

BVR (editor)

Business Valuation Resources, LLC

Benchmark data is used to help support the allocation of intangible assets and the estimation of remaining useful lives for a purchase price allocation (PPA). Now in its third edition, Benchmarking Identifiable Intangibles and Their Useful Lives in Business Combinations delivers a compilation of reported, vetted and carefully analyzed data, particularly focused on useful lives of intangible assets as reflected in almost 16,000 purchase price allocations Learn more >>
$249.00

What It's Worth: Valuing Full-Service Restaurants

October 2020 PDF

BVR (editor)

Business Valuation Resources, LLC

Valuing restaurants has always been a dynamic and challenging process, now more than ever before given the impact of COVID-19 on eateries. To meet this challenge, a back-to-basics approach steeped in fundamentals is required in order to build a foundation on which to develop a valuation in today’s volatile environment. This new and timely industry report from the editorial experts at BVR takes a deep dive into the unique considerations for restaurant valuation

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$149.00

What It's Worth: Valuing Residential and Commercial Construction Companies

February 2020 PDF

Pasquale Rafanelli

Business Valuation Resources, LLC

What It’s Worth: Valuing Residential and Commercial Construction Companies is an ideal and timely resource for anyone looking for insight into what drives value in a building enterprise and how to account for every special consideration.  The report includes a case study that will illuminate and inform any stakeholder’s thinking.  Expert contributors analyze actual market comps from the DealStats transaction database along with industry intelligence from The Business Reference Guide. Learn more >>
$199.00

BVR Briefing - Cannabis and Hemp Valuations: A Market Analysis

January 2020 PDF

Ron Seigneur, Ryan Cram

Business Valuation Resources, LLC

There is no better time for the new “BVR Briefing - Cannabis and Hemp Valuations: A Market Analysis” study by Ryan Cram, CVA, and Ron Seigneur, CPA/ABV, CVA, ASA.  Cram and Seigneur present an empirically-based alternative to the “one-size-fits-all” application of market approach in the cannabis industry by putting current cannabis market sentiment and factors in the context of privately-held growth assets and relies upon the same rigor in data selection and research. Learn more >>
$149.00

The State of Legal Cannabis Markets – 7th Edition

June 2019 Hardcover, PDF

Arcview Market Research

As the cannabis industry grows–for both investors and operators–market intelligence becomes a significant source of competitive advantage. The seventh edition of this report leverages the most robust and accurate database of millions of actual point-of-sale data created by BDS Analytics, making market projections and estimates better informed, and allowing us to bring you more granular and precise data than ever before.  Learn more >>