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A
Acquisition
Add-on Acquisition
Adjusted Book Value
Appraisal
Appraisal Approach
Appraisal Date
Appraisal Method
Appraisal Procedure
Asset (Asset-Based) Approach
Asset Sale (Asset Acquisition)
B
Benefit Stream
Beta
Book
Business
Business Broker
Business Valuation
C
Capital Structure
Capitalization
Capitalization Factor
Capitalization Rate
Cash Flow
Certified Mergers & Acquisitions Program (CM&AP)
Committed Equity Capital
Confidential Business Review (CBR)
Confidential Information Memorandum (CIM)
Control
Control Premium
Cost Approach
Cost of Capital
D
Discount
Discount for Lack of Control
Discount for Lack of Marketability
Discount Rate
Divestiture
Due Diligence
E
Earnout
EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization)
Economic Life
Effective Date
Enterprise
Enterprise Value
Equity Net Cash Flows
Equity Risk Premium
EV (Enterprise Value) or TEV (Total Enterprise Value)
Excess Earnings
Excess Earnings Method
Exit Plan
F
Fair Market Value (FMV)
Family Succession
Forced Liquidation Value
Free Cash Flow
G
Going Concern
Going Concern Value
Goodwill
Goodwill Value
Growth Capital
H
Holdback (HB)
I
Income (Income-Based) Approach
Indication of Interest (IOI) or Expression of Interest (EOI)
Intangible Assets
Invested Capital
Invested Capital Net Cash Flows
Investment Banker
Investment Risk
Investment Value
K
Key Person Discount
L
Last-Rolling-Twelve-Month (LRTM) Revenue
Letter of Intent (LOI)
Leveraged Buyout (LBO)
Levered Beta
Liquidation Value
Liquidity
Lower Middle Market (LMM)
M
M&A Advisor
Majority Control
Majority Interest
Management Buy-In (MBI)
Management Buy-Out (MBO)
Market (Market-Based) Approach
Marketability
Marketability Discount
Merger
Merger & Acquisition Master Intermediary (M&AMI)
Minority Discount
Minority Interest
Most Probable Selling Price
N
Net Book Value
Net Cash Flow
Net Tangible Asset Value
Non-Operating Assets
O
Orderly Liquidation Value
P
Platform Company
Portfolio Company
Portfolio Discount
Premise of Value
Principle of Substitution
Private Equity
Private Equity Fund
Private Equity Group (PEG)
Promissory Note
Purchase Price Adjustments
Q
Quality of Earnings
Quality of Earnings (QofE) Report
R
Rate of Return
Ratio Analysis
Recapitalization
Redundant Assets
Replacement Cost New
Reproduction Cost New
Residual Value
Risk Premium
Risk-Free Rate
Roll-up (also Rollup or Roll up)
Rule of Thumb
S
Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA)
Search Fund
Seller Rollover
Seller’s Note
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Small Business Administration (SBA) Loan
Special Interest Purchasers
Standard of Value
Sustaining Capital Reinvestment
Systematic Risk
T
Teaser
Terminal Value
Trailing-Twelve-Month (TTM) Revenue
U
Unlevered Beta
Unsystematic Risk
V
Valuation
Valuation Approach
Valuation Date
Valuation Method
Valuation Procedure
Valuation Ratio
Value to the Owner
W
Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
Working Capital
Y
Year Over Year (YOY)
