Child Care Business Valuation Services
Knowing the True Value of Your Child Care Business is Essential
Understanding the true value of your childcare business is essential for its overall health and well-being, as well as for planning your exit strategy. Not knowing the true value of your childcare business could lead to unpleasant surprises down the road.
A business valuation is an independent appraisal that analyzes and determines the value of your childcare business. This can be done in many ways, but it is commonly determined by utilizing one or all approaches to value – income approach, market approach, and asset approach.
The business valuation report is more than just a number, though. It is a powerful asset that provides insight into the inner workings of your company. The sooner you engage in a valuation, the more time you’ll have to work on maximizing the value of your business and address “value gaps” – the value of your business vs. what you need the value to be.
ChildCareOwner.com founder Donna Dailey, having worked in Child Care Business Mergers and Acquisitions since 1995 and being designated as a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) by the National Association of Certified Business Analysts (NACVA), specializes in childcare business valuations. Depending on your specific needs, both non-certified and certified business valuations are provided.
Standard (Non-certified) business valuations are most often used for planning purposes – business planning, exit planning, value acceleration planning, or business expansion strategies.
Certified business valuations are more appropriate in situations involving a business partnership dissolution, divorce, formal estate planning, and other situations involving possible legal proceedings.
Standard Child Care Business Valuation (Non-Certified)
Our Standard Child Care Business Valuation (Non-Certified) Report consists of 30 – 40 pages, prepared by a NACVA Certified Business Valuation Analyst and specialized child care Mergers and Acquisition Specialist. Our Standard Child Care Business Valuation (Non-Certified) Report is most appropriate for child care businesses with gross revenues in excess of $1,500,000. This analysis and report can be utilized when buying or selling a child care business and business planning decisions. The valuation summary includes the development of a value range utilizing the market approach, asset approach, and income approach with analysis, financial recasting, and development of SDE or EBITDA multiples (as most appropriate), capitalization of earnings method. The report also includes industry benchmarking against peer companies, examining profitability, liquidity, debt, and asset management ratios. This analysis and report can be utilized when buying or selling a child care business and business planning decisions to assess your business’s performance compared to competitors and identify aspects of your child care business that can be improved, resulting in higher profitability and value.
Standard Child Care Business Valuation (Non-Certified): $2,500 – $3,500
Certified Child Care Summary Business Valuation
Certified Valuation Reports must be prepared by a certified business valuation analyst or certified business appraiser. Our Certified Child Care Business Valuation Reports are prepared by a NACVA Certified Business Valuation Analyst who specializes in analyzing and valuing child care businesses. This detailed 50+ page report is a comprehensive report that is most often utilized in the valuation of larger child care businesses, multi-unit business locations, or more complex business acquisitions and divestitures.
Certified Child Care Summary Business Valuation: $4,000 – $8,000
