today’s top trends in deals and valuations for cpa firm mergers and sales

the eight most important facts in settling on a multiple.

with the merger-and-acquisitions frenzy showing no signs of slowing down, practice owners seem to be checking almost daily: what’s my practice worth?

“one thing is for sure,” says gary adamson, former ceo of brady ware, a top 200 firm, now providing advisory services for firms across the country, “baby boomers are selling at a rate that the profession has never seen before.”

it’s still a sellers’ market, he says. but that could change soon, he says, citing “the demographics and the thousands of practices that will soon come onto the market.”

in this report, adamson addresses:

• the question of valuing a practice
• two basic types of deals
• the value of a multiple
• eight critical components to making a deal
• the effect of size of practice on valuation
• profitability
• down payment
• transitions