Omaha (Sponsor post authored by Josh Weiss, CPA.) The value of a business is not something that you can look up or easily identify. The primary reason is that value is truly in the eye of the beholder. A business is effectively worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Not unlike many consumer goods, the market often dictates the price of a product or a business. However, pricing one product is much different than pricing all of the hard work, goodwill, blood, sweat and tears that go into the value of a business. Business values come in many shapes and sizes. The reason for that … read more

Omaha (Sponsor post authored by Bart Dillashaw.) At one of the recent Lunch & Learns put on by the Mastercraft Advisors, John Grose and Doug Sutko of First National Bank discussed the "cost of capital" of debt and equity. Entrepreneurs often fail to think about this concept as much as they should, and it is a topic worth exploring in more detail. Those in financial circles throw around the term "cost of capital" generally to refer to the level of return a given investment is going to have to deliver to attract investors. Cost of capital tends to be proportionate to risk, so the riskier an investment, the higher … read more