SCORE Workshop: Buy/Sell & Valuation of a Business

Description

This workshop will help businesses learn how to develop a valuation estimate that is defensible whether they are buying, selling or starting a business.  This session will also help businesses learn the pros and cons of franchising.  All of this is in "plain English" and based on current valuation concepts.  Instructors will take you through the process using examples of each calculation.

Jim Chamberlain of SCORE presents this workshop.  Jim has an MBA and is a CMA (Certified Management Accountant).  Jim has held financial positions with Dexter, General Dynamics and Statek Corporation, as well as an environmental start-up.  During his career, Jim has had extensive experience in merger and acquisition activity as both buyer and seller. He has prepared Business Plans, sold and purchased businesses and has helped entrepreneurs improve their cash flow.  Management Accounting is his specialty.  He is a past president and director of the Certified Management Accounting Society of Southern California (CMASSC).