Displaying 2 items of The Scholar Wealth Podcast with the tag "business valuation".
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Episode 60: Buying a Business in the Era of Mass Retirement
June 8th, 2026 | 42 mins 42 secs
asset protection, business acquisitions, business exit strategy, business valuation, due diligence, family business, financial independence, mass retirement, private equity investment, seller discretionary earnings
Brandon Mendez, Ph.D., CPA, Professor of Finance at the Darla Moore School of Business and U.S. Navy veteran, joins Stephan in the studio for a full-episode conversation on what it actually takes to buy a business today. They cover how to read multiples and seller discretionary earnings, why private equity has a structural edge over individual buyers, what AI is doing to the talent side of acquisitions, and where the real red flags hide in a set of financial statements.
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Episode 41: Choosing Charitable Impact, Wash Sale Rules, and Business Valuation in Practice
January 26th, 2026 | 38 mins 36 secs
business exit strategy, business valuation, charitable giving, charitable impact, estate planning, family business, nonprofit evaluation, portfolio rebalancing, tax loss harvesting, tax planning, wash sale rules
In this episode, we explore how financial decisions can still feel complicated even when the numbers clearly work. The conversation covers how to choose impactful charitable giving without an existing connection, how wash sale rules show up in real-world portfolios, and a practical discussion with Mike Blake on how business valuations actually work in practice.