Talk:Business valuation

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"The recent experience of several of the most important companies in the U.S. economy, IBM, General Motors and DEC, illustrates the problems that can arise when intangible asset information is omitted from corporate financial statements. All three were all showing large profits using current accounting systems while their businesses were falling apart If they had been forced to take write-offs when the declines in intangible assets were occurring, the problems would have been visible to the market and management would have been forced to act on them much sooner. These deficiencies of traditional accounting systems are particularly noticeable in high technology companies that are highly valued for their intangible assets and their options to enter new markets rather than their tangible assets." I have issue with above paragraph. I think we should include the period when that statement was true. I don't know about General Motors, but i know IBM is currently the most healthy IT company and DEC is long dead. Using the word "recent" make it feel like year 2000

We also need to analyse the value of a company (especially financial services companies) from a liquidation perspective as well. This is a view favoured by regulators who look at the interests of deposit holders as opposed to the interests of either creditors (debt) or shareholders (equity). The value of a company from this viewpoint is measured by how much of their money deposit holders can expect to get back if the company is liquidated right now.

I see no discussion of the key premises of value which form the basic assumption for, and affect the value conclusion of, any business valuation assignment. The value in exchange as either orderly disposition of business assets or forced liquidation would be an appropriate choice when dealing with business valuation for liquidation purposes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by --Physitsky 07:57, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links

I have removed the following external links from this article per WP:EL. If any of these links were used to add content to this article, please see WP:CITE to learn how to cite references in Wikipedia.

I see no reason for the removal of external reference to the Institute of Business Appraisers, while maintaining the links to the NACVA. Both professional organizations serve the business appraisal community.--Physitsky 07:56, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Keeping NPOV on this page: Economists, Financiers, Accountants all have a say

I added back in several references that were inexplicably deleted from a previous version. All the deleted entries were written by non-accountants. I also noted some very specific references to sub-subsets of the accounting profession in the current version.

I suggest that Economists, Financiers, and Accountants all have a say in "valuation" and it is inappropriate to exclude the organizations, published works, etc. from any of them in Wikipedia.

Again, persistent attempts to remove non-accountant resources from this section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Physitsky (talk • contribs) 09:38, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Panderson1959 (talk) 05:08, 14 December 2007 (UTC)Panderson1959


[edit] External links

Before adding external links to valuation consultant websites, please consult external link guidelines to see how if qualifies as well as conflict of interest guidelines and SPAM guildelines.

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15. Lists of links to manufacturers and suppliers.

Montco (talk) 18:08, 15 February 2008 (UTC)