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Industry and market analysis
Where your business sits relative to comparable companies and what the sector supports on multiples.
Business Valuation
Business valuation services in Dubai
A valuation is an in-depth analysis of your industry, your business risks and your expected cash flows. What it produces is a defensible number, which matters most in exactly the situations where the number is contested: a sale, an investment, a partner exit or a dispute.
What’s included
Everything the engagement covers.
Scope is agreed in writing before we start, so there is nothing on this list that arrives later as an extra.
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Cash flow analysis and forecasting
Normalised historic performance and a forward view, with owner-specific items adjusted out.
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Risk assessment
Customer concentration, key person dependency, contract quality and the other factors that move a discount rate.
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Multiple valuation approaches
Income, market and asset-based methods cross-checked against each other rather than a single convenient figure.
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Written valuation report
Methodology, assumptions and a stated range, prepared to withstand scrutiny from the other side.
In detail
A range, with reasoning, beats a single number
Any valuation depends on assumptions, and a report presenting one figure without showing the sensitivity around it is hiding that fact. We present a range and show what drives movement within it.
That is more useful in a negotiation, and considerably more credible if the valuation is ever challenged.
What most often reduces value
Concentration of revenue in a small number of customers, undocumented processes that live in the owner's head, informal contracts, and accounting records that cannot support the reported performance.
Several of these are fixable given time. Where we see them, we say so, because a valuation that arrives eighteen months before a sale is worth more than one that arrives the week before.
Who this is for
- Owners preparing to sell all or part of a business
- Companies raising investment and negotiating terms
- Partners separating and needing an independent figure
- Buyers assessing whether an asking price is supportable
- Businesses needing a valuation for restructuring or reporting
Common questions
Business Valuation questions, answered.
The questions clients ask us most often about this service.
What valuation method do you use?
We apply income, market and asset-based approaches and cross-check them. Which carries most weight depends on the business, its sector and the purpose of the valuation.
How long does a valuation take?
Typically two to four weeks once we have complete financial records. Where records need work first, that stage is scoped separately.
Will the valuation hold up in a dispute?
Our reports state methodology, assumptions and sources so the reasoning can be examined. Formal expert evidence in litigation is a distinct engagement, and we will tell you if that is what your situation actually requires.
Related services
Often needed alongside this.
These services draw on the same records, so combining them is usually cheaper than commissioning each separately.
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VAT Compliance
VAT registration, quarterly return filing, de-registration and advisory on the 5% UAE VAT applied at the point of sale. Handled end to end.
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Corporate Tax
UAE corporate tax of 9% applies to taxable profit above AED 375,000 and registration is mandatory. We register you and keep every return correct.
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Auditing
Independent audit of your internal controls, surfacing risk in financial reporting before a regulator, bank or investor finds it first.
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