IBA, as the premier business brokerage firm in the Pacific Northwest, is firmly established as a respected professional service firm in the legal, accounting, banking, mergers & acquisitions, real estate, and financial planning communities.  Periodically, we will post guest blogs from professionals with knowledge to share for the good of owners of privately held companies…

American Dream Achieved IBA, as a fifty-one-year old business brokerage firm serving the entrepreneurial community of the Pacific Northwest, has been uniquely positioned since before the American Bicentennial celebration of 1976 to witness and hear the stories of thousands of people who have lived the American dream through entrepreneurship creating beloved businesses by employees, customers,…

Properly valuing a privately held company or family business is a sophisticated, nuanced, subjective science that requires significant knowledge, experience, and skill.  On the first tier of the computation, it is an investment calculation requiring recasting of financials and conversion of a risk assessment into a multiple.  On the second tier, it is similar to…