Valuations & Exit Planning Business Valuation Discounts: The Risks UK SME Owners Keep Missing KP Kishen Patel, BFP ACA ICAEW Chartered Accountant · Consult EFC · April 2026 · 9 min read Most owners focus on profit when they think about business valuation discounts. Buyers do not. They price risk as well as earnings. A…
Exit Planning Valuations Due Diligence By Kishen Patel, BFP ACA · ICAEW Chartered Accountant · March 2026 Normalised EBITDA vs Quality of Earnings in SME Sales: What UK Business Owners Must Know Before They Exit If you are preparing to sell your business, raise investment, or plan an exit in the next one to three…
Home › Valuation Insights › Minority Share Valuation Valuations & HMRC KP Kishen Patel, BFP ACA ICAEW Chartered Accountant · Founder, Consult EFC · June 2026 A minority shareholding sounds straightforward on paper. You own less than 50 per cent, so you own that slice of the company. In practice, minority share valuation is rarely…
A valuation can change a funding round, a sale price, or a founder’s confidence in the numbers. Yet many UK SME owners hear two methods again and wonder which one matters more, DCF or EBITDA multiples. In plain English, DCF values the cash a business should produce in future. EBITDA multiples value the business by…
Business value isn’t based on sales alone. A company can grow fast and still be worth less than the owner expects if no one fully trusts the numbers. That matters because buyers, lenders and investors pay more for firms they can understand. They want clear profit, predictable cash flow, and risks they can measure. Poor…
Due Diligence Exit Planning By Kishen Patel, BFP ACA · ICAEW Chartered Accountant Updated July 2026 How Clean Management Accounts Increase Your UK SME Valuation Multiple Management accounts are the monthly or quarterly reports that track profit, cashflow, and overheads. For a founder, they support day-to-day operational decisions. However, if you are preparing a business…