QuickValue: Discover Your Value and Empower Your Business in Three Easy Steps

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Product Description Gain the competitive edge by conducting a valuation of your company every year―quickly, accurately, and inexpensively Business leaders who know their company’s value at any given moment are more likely to seize the competitive edge―especially these days, when adding digital capabilities can dramatically affect value. But most businesses drop the ball because traditional valuation is complex, time-consuming, and expensive. Not anymore. Reed Phillips, Chairman of Oaklins International, one of the world’s largest mid-market M&A firms, lays out a straightforward method for gaining a clear understanding of your company’s current value in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. He walks you through three easy steps: Identify the key value drivers behind the company’s value and rate them to develop a Value Driver Score. Perform a careful examination of comparable businesses, including their market-rate multiples for revenue and EBITDA. Put the results together to determine the value of the business. QuickValue provides a clear, reliable way to determine your business’s value in real time―transforming valuation from a reactive, defensive burden into an active, indispensable part of daily operations. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, owner, executive, consultant, accountant, or M&A advisor, QuickValue provides the method you need to know the value of any company at any time. From the Back Cover “Full of useful, practical ideas presented in a hugely readable way, QuickValue is must-read for owners and executives of mid-sized companies to help them focus on what matters in maximizing company value.”—Royce Yudkoff, professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School and Founder, ABRY Partners “There is only one honest measure of an entrepreneur’s years of sweat, stress and hard work: the value of their company. That has always been devilishly hard to calculate—that is, until now. Reed Phillips’ QuickValue method not only helps founders determine their company’s value, it enables them to do so every year, without expensive consultants and dubious projections, using their own staff and the real value drivers unique to their company. If you’re a founder, read this book to know with confidence your company’s fair value. Even more, read it to truly understand what you have built.”—Eric Schurenberg, CEO, Fast Company & Inc. “This landmark book cuts through the confusion and gives business leaders and entrepreneurs an effective framework for making key decisions that drive the value of their business.”—Dan McCarthy, President & CEO, Dodge Data & Analytics “What gets measured gets managed, and perhaps no metric is more important or insightful than your company’s valuation. Based on several decades of blended operational and investment banking leadership experience, Reed Phillips has created an easy and effective way for every owner and operator to know their enterprise valuation—and use it as a north star for guiding future business decisions and investments.”—Mark Leiter, former Chief Strategy Officer, Nielsen About the Author Reed Phillips is Chairman of Oaklins International, one of the world’s largest mid-market M&A firms with 850+ investment bankers in 45 countries. His clients include Microsoft, TripAdvisor, WPP, The New York Times, Conde Nast, Oracle, Televisa, Deloitte, S&P Global, Deutsche Borse, Capgemini, Providence Equity, News Corp, Thomson Reuters, and Move.com. Phillips also co-founded Oaklins DeSilva & Phillips, a specialty investment bank for the marketing, media, information, and technology industries, which has completed nearly 350 M&A transactions, financings, and valuations. Charles Slack is a business and financial writer and award-winning author of four books, including  Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech.