Business valuation articles and guides from Assetica, with expert insights for Dubai and UAE business owners, investors, and M&A professionals.
Business valuation is the discipline of establishing what a company is worth at a stated date, on a stated basis, to a standard somebody else will accept. This category is the core of what Assetica does: the methods themselves, discounted cash flow, market multiples and asset approaches, and the judgement that sits between them. It covers what buyers, banks, the Federal Tax Authority and the courts each need to see, how earnings are normalised before any multiple is applied, and why the same business can carry different values for a sale, a tax filing and a residency application without any of them being wrong. Most articles here answer a question an owner asks once and then has to defend in a room full of people paid to disagree.
What is a business valuation?
A business valuation is an independent assessment of what a company is worth at a stated date, prepared to recognised standards such as IVS, the RICS Red Book or IFRS 13. A credible valuation reconciles at least two approaches, normally an income approach (discounted cash flow) and a market approach (EBITDA or revenue multiples), and normalises earnings by removing owner-related, one-off and related-party items before any multiple is applied.
How is a business valued in the UAE?
Most UAE businesses are valued on normalised EBITDA multiples cross-checked against a discounted cash flow, with an asset-based approach acting as a floor for holding, property-rich and capital-intensive companies. The result is expressed as a defensible range rather than a single number, and it distinguishes enterprise value from the equity value the shareholder actually receives.
How much does a business valuation cost?
Fees depend on size, complexity, purpose and turnaround. Assetica quotes a fixed fee in writing after a free scoping call, so there is no hourly billing and no scope creep.
Assetica is an independent business valuation firm in Dubai. We do not audit and we do not broker deals, so the number carries no conflict. Book a scoping call or see the core business valuation service.