Hard assets are found in the financial documents produced for tax purposes.
Accounting based business valuators find prices.
A business based valuator will find value.
An entrepreneurial valuator with relevant experience is going to be able to adjust and determine the "fair market value" of these assets as this is the purview of an entrepreneurial valuator. We should beware of those who would put “fair market value” to hard assets without personal experience buying and selling hard assets as required by the Canada Income Tax Act Policy Paper for finding “fair market value”.
With enough business owner operator experience a valuator can accurately assess the value of a company's tangible assets, such as property, equipment, and inventory, ensuring these assets are appropriately considered in the overall valuation.
While accountants can account for hard assets on financial statements, they might lack the expertise to assess their real-world value and importance in the context of the business operations.
Accountants using the income approach may not accurately reflect the real-world value and importance of a company's tangible assets in the context of its operations.
Brokers might lack the expertise to assess the real-world value and importance of a company's tangible assets in the context of its operations.
Sale price data may not accurately reflect the real-world value and importance of a company's tangible assets in the context of its operations, leading to potential discrepancies in valuation.
Disruptive Valuation Methodology:
This proves why Eric Jordan’s “25 Factors Affecting Business Valuation” methodology combined with 15 years or more of business owner operator experience produces the most accurate option for all stakeholders.
This methodology is proving to be “disruptive” in the valuation industry.
WHY would you accept a valuation from a BROKER OR ACCOUNTANT using flawed data or outdated valuation approaches
?
Hard Asset Approach, Income Approach, and Market Approaches to business valuation should never be accepted in 2023 when we know better.
These are approaches used by unscrupulous agents and others
using inaccurate data and accounting formulas to suggest a business value that
might fit well into their business plan; but not yours.
Venture Capitalists are the valuers of the biggest companies in the world. Think Peter Thiel.
Neither Peter Thiel, Elon Musk or any of the other top 150 Venture Capitalists in the world are accountants or real estate agents.
The biggest and best companies in the world are not trusting accountants or
realtors for valuation purposes; WHY WOULD YOU?
Trust your local accountant who sticks to accounting. That is who we depend upon to start your valuation process.
“None of the top 150 valuators in the world are accountants.”
The top business valuators in the world are Venture Capitalists like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and our Canadian example Mark D Wiseman.
Of the 200,000 honest, hard working, professional accountants in Canada; less than 1% suggest they can do business valuations.
We believe this radical 1% of would be monopolists have no business doing business valuations in 2023 using outdated, unreliable, misleading and dishonest approaches to business valuation.
These outdated approaches are:
Hard Asset, Income and Market approaches to business valuation.
Those 1% and their methodology was proven wrong in 2009 by Mark D Wiseman and the Canadian Pension Plan Fund.
Canadian Venture Capitalist Mark D Wiseman, working with the Canadian Pension Plan, valued a block of shares of a company that had
financial statements showing huge losses (SKYPE), and purchased that block at $300 MILLION USD. Mark D Wiseman was
also instrumental in selling that same block of shares for well over a BILLION USD two years later.
That day in 2009 was the day when accounting based valuators had their methodology turned on its head.
Mark D Wiseman has been added to a list of the top 150 Venture Capitalists in the world (Researched in March 2023) NONE OF WHOM are accountants.
The 150 top Venture Capitalists in the world who value some of the world's most valuable companies should be considered the world’s best valuation experts.
And again, none of them, to the best of our research, are accountants. Does anyone seriously think these top experts would employ the old hard asset,
income, or market approach to business valuation used by most accountant based valuators today? Ask Warren Buffet?
Venture Capitalists use honest accountants to supply reliable financial data that has generally been arranged for tax purposes. Clients have already paid these accountants tens of thousands of dollars to produce these documents that are generally needed to start a valuation.
This is also the basis of Eric Jordan’s “25 Factors Affecting Business Valuation” methodology. Honest Accountants produce the
financial records required to start the valuation process. This is where, in private company valuations, experienced business owner/operators
take over. These people with 15 years or more of relevant business owner/operator experience, are trained in the use of Eric
Jordan’s “25 Factors Affecting Business Valuation”. They identify, measure, weigh, and put an estimated value on the intangible assets that make up the majority of most company value since at least 2009. This is when the Mark D Wiseman/Skype moment changed business valuation history.
Clients have paid their accountants tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars for accounting. We trust these professionals FOR ACCOUNTING AND TAX PURPOSES; but NOT for Business Valuation.
NONE of the top 150 valuators in the world are accountants.
Consider Warren Buffet and his partner Charlie Munger and what they have to say about accountants overeaching, and not staying in their proper lane. And not sticking to accounting.
Charlie Munger on accountants:
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Warren Buffet on accountants:
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The 99% of Accountants who stick to accounting are well respected. The other 1% give the rest a bad name.