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BUSINESS VALUATIONS

Business Valuations are made for selling your business, buying a new business, gifting stock, or purchasing of stock from other stockholders, family members or key employees. This includes valuing ESOP programs and exercising contractual buy/sell agreements.

Death of a shareholder, estate planning, conversion to "S" corporation, and other transactions that have tax implications almost always require a business valuation or appraisal.

WHAT WE OFFER

We offer a FREE online course, "How To Value Your Own Business" to introduce business owners and advisors to some of the basic concepts of business valuation and appraisal.

This is a step by step four lesson course emailed to you over four days. At the end of the course you will have learned basic concepts of business valuation and calculated the market value of your business.

The number of participants in this course has been outstanding.

Years 1996 - 2000: 1,032
Year 2001: 510
Year 2002: 531
Year 2003: 341 - Obviously not a good year to sell a business!
Year 2004: 405
Year 2005: 422
Year 2006 - throught September: 308

TOTAL 3,549

WHAT ELSE WE ADDED

Online Business Calculator

For business owners willing to spend some money - less than $20.00 - to save time doing the manual calculations, we have prepared the online C&S BUSINESS VALUATION Calculator.

The online C&S BUSINESS VALUATION Calculator may be used:

• in conjunction with the Free course to simplify the manual calculations,
• to accelerate the lessons in the Free course, or,
• instead of the Free online course.

WHO WE ARE

C&S Associates has been doing mergers and acquisitions, appraisals and valuations of privately held businesses since 1981. We have served a wide variety of manufacturing, distribution, and service industries that are related to electrical, electronic, and mechanical products and services.

WHY WE DID IT

Similar to the "free" advice doctors, lawyers, and other professionals are often asked to give in an informal setting, we are frequently asked for an opinion about the "ballpark" value of a business.

The cost for a business valuation or appraisal may run from a few hundred dollars to many thousands dollars depending on the size and complexity of the company being evaluated and the level of accuracy wanted.

We hope this and the online C&S BUSINESS VALUATION Calculator will satisfy your needs for a "ballpark" valuation. If a more accurate valuation is needed for your company, we would be pleased to provide you an estimate for making the valuation or appraisal.

OUR PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS VALUATION SERVICE

If you require a more professional Business Valuation, please visit our BUSINESS VALUATION page. We offer an online program for estimating the cost of a professional Business Valuation.

WHAT YOU SHOULD DO NOW

Select one of the following three options.

        - Free online Business Valuation Course

        - Fee based online Business Valuation Calculator

        - Professional Business Valuations