Certified Business Appraisal
The appraisal firm you choose must be totally independent. Having your broker, intermediary, or consultant perform the appraisal is not the best choice. If the company is valued by anyone close to, or working for the owner, most buyers feel that the value is biased. If financing is necessary, most banks and the Small Business Administration (SBA) will require an independent third party appraiser.

Although the majority of our assignments are for mergers and acquisitions, should the valuation assignment be for estate planning or institutional financing, no one has performed as many uncontested valuations as Business Evaluation Systems. We have performed at least 4,000 appraisals for institutional financing, divorces, partnership buy-outs, estate planning for gift and inheritance taxes, issues involving economic damages, and loss of profits or bankruptcy . Our reputation and years of experience assures our clients of the highest quality of work .

Business Evaluation Systems has kept an exclusive and vast national database of Required Rates of Return from Merger and Acquisition Intermediaries from around the country. In addition to our own exclusive database, we conduct massive on-going research on comparable sales for almost every industry.

Certified Machinery and Equipment Appraisals

We have performed extensive machinery and equipment appraisals worldwide with an unquestionable reputation for accuracy and quality.

Business Evaluation Systems is one of the only appraisal firms that can offer both business appraisal and machinery and equipment appraisals. Too many appraisers just estimate or do not consider the value of a company’s hard assets. Worst of all most use “Book Value” as stated on the Balance Sheet. Most Accountants and even the Internal Revenue Service agree that Balance Sheet values for machinery and equipment, in most cases, are not even close to “Fair Market Value”. These values are based on Depreciation Schedules that are allowed by the tax codes and usually have very little resemblance to the actual useful life of the equipment. In other words, the values are tax driven and not fair market. Often many assets are not even considered to have value because they have been fully depreciated. However, these assets are still in use and performing the task they were assigned to do, thus they still have value.

When valuing a company, all fixed assets should be adjusted to fair market to show accurate values for both tangible and intangible assets.