Maclean Partners, Chartered Accountants, Financial Planning, Townsville, Queensland

Business Valuation

Business Valuation

Maclean Partners Pty Ltd specialise in professional Business Valuations.


Our valuation techniques and reports are tailored to suit the particular circumstances of each specific engagement


Our valuations are used for legal purposes, for corporate restructuring purposes, for succession planning purposes and for general business planning purposes


Our expertise is demonstrated by our experienced.  Not only have our team members conducted countless valuations but they have also trained a large number of accountants throughout Australia, New Zealand and Canada in business valuation principles and techniques.


FORMAL VALUATIONS

Our valuations are used for family law purposes, business restructuring, succession planning, buying part of a business, selling part of a business etc.  Although our valuations are normally based on the "Capitalisation of Earnings Approach" we typically use more than one valuation method in our valuation process.


As part of a national network we are able to compare capitalisation rates to dozens of other valuations.  This helps 'position' our valuation and helps all users of the valuation report see that the valuations is reasonable compared to similar businesses.  Our approach enables us to identify the reasons with the valuation ID 'above' or 'below' average.


This is a critical benefit of our approach when the valuation is likely to be analysed (and properly challenged) by other parties.  


CREDIBILITY

The valuation approach we use has been patented, tested in the Supreme Court, endorsed by major banks and financial institutions and complies with all professional requirements.

As A Business Planning Aid

Our approach assesses go 'risk areas' of the business being valued to determine the appropriate, 'business specific' multiple.  This assessment enables us to advise the business ownerss 'what to work on' to proactively improve their 'capitalisation rate'.


What's more, we can quantify the impact certain strategies will have on the business' capitalisation rate so we can help business owners.  For example, grow their business value by 30% by only growing profits by 12%.

Selling a Business

When selling a business it is quite usual to prepare some sort of Sales Memorandum.  These Sales Memorandums typically feature the key selling points fo the business and help attract a higher price.


Completing a Risk Assessment is an ideal way of idetifying which 'value drivers' are performing well and therefore is a very useful tool that accompanies selling a business. 

Buying a Business

When buying a business you always ask "Am I paying too much?" and "Is there anything I don't know about this business?"  An excellent way of addressing both these questions is by completing a Risk Assessment.  In this context, the Risk Assessment forms part of your due diligence that is vital to any business acquisition.


Business Valuations

We take Business Valuations very seriously.  Accordingly we apply 'science' when valuing a business.  Beware other firms who value businesses based on 'personal experience' or 'gut feel'.  It is not sufficient!


The valuation model we use is patented and used by over 150 accounting firms (including 'top tier' and 'mid tier' firms) in Australia.  Our model identifies reasonable value for a business by applying a multiple to its underlying profitability.  Quite simply, the more protected the business and its profit stream, the higher the multiple! 


The areas covered by our risk assessment (which is used to determine the capitalisation rate) are:

~ The Industry ~ Competition ~ Customers & Market Demand
~ Business Performance ~ Record Keeping ~ Staff
~ Business Growth ~ Owners ~ Succession Planning
~ Business Risk
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