In the summer I once again took part in the OTJ-organised MOOSE summer sessions.

I did a presentation on buying, selling and valuing schools and ELL businesses and hoped to share what I have learned in the set up, purchase, sale and brokering of over 30 schools since 2003.

We covered: market capitalisation, gross multipliers, net multipliers, cash flow, book and liquidation value.

The video abstract for the presentation is here:

 

 

The presentation slides are here:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/152OF_loew-7vl-c9KEy1BnWuBFc6w0dMQR2L01ZnhPI/edit?usp=sharing

 

The presentation is here:

 

And the editable valuation spreadsheet is here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i9QslzackfAFMzlv1ekcIZSg0gavPa33KtCA1_QWuOk/edit?usp=sharing

In coming blogs I will go into more detail, using examples I have seen on the market recently, of how a potential buyer could approach a school seller with a reasonable offer, or decide it wasn’t for them.