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Median TIC value per employee.
What’s your firm really worth? Leaders in the A/E/P and environmental consulting industry need to know their firm’s value.
M any architecture, engineering, planning, and environmental consulting firm leaders don’t have a solid grasp on their firm’s value. But, if you’re a firm owner, you can’t risk not knowing this information, because the firm’s value factors into several situations, including:
Andrea Bennett DATA POINTS
The Valuation Survey is broken down into three parts: Business Valuation Considerations, 2016 Survey Results, and Case Studies. That’s right, in addition to presenting readers with the overall survey data – broken down by firm type, size, region, growth rate, and more – Zweig Group provides actual valuation information for each of the 141 firms (43 percent of which are multidiscipline engineering firms) that have participated in the survey since 2013. That’s real- world information on real-world firms that you can’t access anywhere else. Zweig Group also provides the actual formulas that survey respondents’ firms use – if they opt against employing an external appraiser – in “The median TIC value per employee for firms overall has steadily increased since 2006 to an all-time high of $65,498 in 2016.”
❚ ❚ Establishing a price for transactions under share- holder or buy/sell agreements ❚ ❚ Establishing a price for a merger, acquisition, or sale ❚ ❚ Developing a plan for ownership transition and/or management buy-outs ❚ ❚ Establishing share prices for employee stock owner- ship plans ❚ ❚ Determining the fair-market value for gift and estate tax issues ❚ ❚ Preparing for an initial public offering ❚ ❚ Supporting litigation efforts, such as partnership dissolutions, disputes, and marital divorce ❚ ❚ Other corporate purposes, such as division spin-offs or divestitures Enter Zweig Group’s 2016 Valuation Survey of A/E/P & Environmental Consulting Firms . Though not a substitute for a formal valuation or a consultation with a business appraiser, the Valuation Survey is a must-have resource for any firm owner interested in determining the worth of his/her company.
See ANDREA BENNETT, page 10
THE ZWEIG LETTER February 29, 2016, ISSUE 1141
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