The Better Business Bureau or BBB, is dedicated to fostering honest and responsive relationships between businesses and consumers, instilling consumer confidence and contributing to a trustworthy marketplace for all. Their vision is an ethical marketplace where buyers and sellers trust each other.

Acquiring a business requires more than just financing it: you have to make sure it’s the business you want and can actually run. While that sounds like a simple task, it’s deceptively complex. Below are the five steps that need to be taken to find the right business for you, to accurately judge it, and to make the purchase.

Welcome back to our study of the different kinds of valuations for a company. Last time we talked about Asset Valuation, Capitalization of Income Valuation, and the Market Approach Valuation. You can read Part 1 of How to Value a Company here. This time we’ll be talking about an additional four types of valuation.