ValuPro is a Business Valuation/Profiling software program designed to calculate a full and defensible value/selling price of a business, and then (for those offering the business-for-sale) to combine the program’s analysis of financial data together with non-financial information of the business, into a series of offering memorandum called Confidential Business Profiles.

ValuPro Valuation is largely a “sustainable cash flow” valuation, or is at least a valuation calculated within the constraints of a sustainable cash flow estimates.  The method includes balance sheet value, with distinctions to work capital components, capital asset components, debt components, etc. The method also includes revenues and earnings/ebitda after recasting interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, and after normalizing other (if any) non-recurring, extraordinary, discretionary and non-business related income, costs and expenses.

The valuation components include a series of entry forms; off-line, program screen forms, into which the user will simply enter information taken from the company’s financial statements and elsewhere. The program is designed to walk you through the steps required to calculate balance sheet value, calculate goodwill value and to test and modify that valuation within the cash flow constraints. 

Confidential Business Profiles are designed to present a ‘balance sheet, earnings, cash flow analysis’ of the business, to defend value and price and, along with other narratives and descriptions, present information a serious and reasonable buyer will require to begin to assess value, fit and opportunity, but to do so without identifying the business until the legitimate intent and capabilities of the buyer can be confirmed and until it is otherwise timely to do so.

Thus, for those valuing the business in order to price the business for-sale, there are additional screen forms designed for the entry of other pertinent information required to complete the business profile features of the program.

For those who may be intimidated by the thought of all this, don’t be.  If this sounds difficult, it really is not.  It is a matter of following the dotted line laid out within the program itself, and if you review the content of links below, perhaps that apprehension will be alleviated.

• ValuPro valuation processes are described and illustrated; click modules.
• Confidential Business Profiles are described and illustrated; click profiles.
• Valupro demonstrators are available on line, all free of course; click demo downloads. 
• Valupro subscriptions are available at various levels on line; click subscription downloads. 
• For those who may decide that hands-on valuation process may not be their best use of time and effort, ValuPro offers business valuation services; click valuation services.