With all this talk about value, what are the determinate factors within the definition of value?

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Throughout the process of Business Valuation the term value is not always concrete and can therefore be somewhat of an annoyance, if not hazard, if any individual’s do not know or do not share the same notion of value.


Thus, in business valuation there a number of different standards of value used that need to be clearly identified since each are typically utilized to meet a specific situation and purpose for each individual company’s appraisal.


There are three standards that are most commonly used in Business Valuation:


• Reasonable Market Value is commonly referred to as the actual price that a buyer is willing to purchase a business at and the price that a seller is willing to sell the business for when both are fully aware of all relevant company information and neither is forced into the agreement. This value is usually the most common term and standard when the word value is used in the United States.


• Forced-Sale Value is commonly referred to as the price that an individual entity can purchase a portion of a business’s assets through a forced sell (bankruptcy).


• Merger and Acquisitions Value is commonly referred to as the supposed and seeming worth of a company or business with it is incorporated into another business.



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