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Provide Fair Market Value of a Business as of a Specific Date in Time.
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Annual "business check-up" for business owners to determine financial strengths
and weaknesses.
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Benchmark comparison for business owners to determine how the business is
operating compared to other similar businesses in the same industry (regionally
and nationally).
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Acquiring expansion capital through lending institutions and venture
capitalists.
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Business Planning and Value Enhancement - Determining the present value of a
business and setting goals over a period of time to increase that value.
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Valuing company stock for the development or annual review of an employee stock
option program (or bonus stock option plan)
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Retirement planning
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Merger or Acquisition (Buying or Selling a Business)
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Planning for an initial public offering of stock
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Conducting a major strategic-planning initiative
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Seeking outside investors
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Disputing conclusions of an IRS audit
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Doing estate or gift planning that involves company stock
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Creating a company stock-option plan or other benefit plans that involve
company stock (such as ESOP or ESOT)
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Breaking up a partnership (Partner Buyout)
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Getting a Divorce
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Entering Bankruptcy
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