I have been asked several times about buying language schools and I have never really given a good answer…I just don’t know how to figure out the value of a school (ie business). People have offered to sell me their schools before and I have turned them down just because it didn’t “feel right”. But now that I want to sell my interests I would like to hear some comments about how to come up with a selling price for a business. Any ideas?
There was something of a discussion on this earlier in the forums. A question I raised (KenTaiwan98). If you search, you should find it.
I would guess three variants:
- assets only least favorable for you, since many of the ‘assets’ are relationships and impossible to monetize.
- total invested plus a reasonable rate of return on that amount.
Won’t include intangibles either. - a multiple of one year’s profit. Any ideas what a suitable multiple would be?
Kenneht
Thanks Kenneth,
Yeah, I was thinking of some sort of multiple of a year’s profit. I know how much the schools make per year but I don’t know either what would be a fair multiple…I guess that’s why I posted something here.
well, how much would you pay to buy your business, if say I was selling it?
Then how much do you think it’s REALLY worth?
Then below what price would you feel uncomfortable selling it at?
Kenneth