The 2008 Business Reference Guide is the essential resource for anyone involved in a privately-owned business and is invaluable to transaction brokers or intermediaries, accountants, attorneys, business appraisers, professional advisors—and buyers or sellers

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The 2008 Business Reference Guide, now in its 18th year, is the essential guide to pricing businesses. This year, the entire Guide—all 800 + pages—is devoted to this year’s Rules of Thumb and up-to-date pricing information for hundreds of different businesses. Most pricing entries contain:

Rules of Thumb based on both sales and earnings (SDE)
Pricing Tips from Industry Experts
Benchmark information (a lot more than last year) that provides comparison data
Ratings on seven factors (some contain only the last three)—most by Industry Experts—that can assist you in deriving an SDE multiplier

• Amount of Competition
• Marketability
• Amount of Risk
• Industry Trend
• Historical Profit Trend
• Ease of Replication
• Location & Facilities

Industry Resources—Associations, Publications—all with Web sites
General Information providing industry data, surveys & comments
Fascinating facts about many different businesses and industries
A complete listing of Business Brokerage Press’s Industry Experts for 2008
The Rules of Thumb section has been expanded with more entries and information than ever before. All of this plus an extensive list of Industry Experts! Download the Index

Thousands of readers call the Business Reference Guide "an absolute necessity-- invaluable to anyone involved in the privately held business."