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How to Accurately Calculate Gross Margins (and Understanding Their Importance) at Professional Services Firms

Focus Investment Banking

If you’re considering the sale of your consulting or professional services business, you should understand that buyers will be examining your Gross Margin as an indicator of the value of your firm. Professional services companies make money by billing out their experts and consultants at rates higher than the employee cost.

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How to Calculate Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) for SaaS Companies w/ Examples

Software Equity Group

How to Find Costs of Goods Sold Expenses to include in COGS are those directly attributable to the delivery of the goods sold by a company or the services provided. Speaking broadly, your COGS structure will likely include technical support, professional services, customer success, and developmental operations.

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How Truelytics and Consultants Work Together

Truelytics: M&A

Nearly 25 years ago, Owen Dahl , board member and Head of Professional Services at Truelytics realized that a great wave of transition was coming for the wealth management industry and the industry wasn't prepared to handle it. Are you helping them grow their business, become more profitable, or prepare for transitions?

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10 Concepts You and I Can Learn About M&A and Creative Deal Structuring From How2Exit's Interview With Roland Frasier Investor, Business Mentor and Strategist

How2Exit

He realized that if he could buy enough companies, he could exit several of them a year and receive a large amount of profit in one go. However, many of these people find that they haven't built a sellable business and don't know how to professionalize it. Roland's story is a great example of how it is possible to play a bigger game.

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What is the Value of my Medical Practice?

Focus Investment Banking

That is, EBITDA x EBITDA Multiple = Valuation The key inputs are 1) the practice’s EBITDA, and 2) the EBITDA multiple. EBITDA is typically calculated using the steps below: Determine the practice’s net profit in the most recent twelve-month period. We explore each in turn below.

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THE M&A MARKET CONTINUES TO GROW IN 2022

Lake Country Advisors

Various sectors from different industries have experienced consistent growth in 2022, thanks to the professional services of reliable M&A business advisors in Wisconsin. How to Sell a Profitable Wisconsin Business in 2022?

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Event-Driven Hedge Funds: The Best Home for Bankers Turned Investors?

Mergers and Inquisitions

They have their investment thesis and valuation, and the earnings announcement is the event that unlocks value… …but this is not what “event-driven” means in most cases. But if we’re wrong, and the spin-off doesn’t happen or gets done at a lower valuation, the parent company’s share price would fall by only 10%.” revenue and 11.5x

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