Patent ID: 8799040
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented system for generating a business valuation, comprising: a tangible computing processor; a network port in data communication with the processor that communicatively couples the processor to a network; a non-transitory computer readable storage device in data communication with the processor and having encoded thereon computer executable instructions which, when executed on the processor, implement: a graphical user interface that prompts a valuation requester to input information of a company, including general information, financial information, and presence information of the company, wherein the financial information includes information pertaining to deferred compensation certified to be in compliance with tax reporting requirements; a query engine that queries third party locations on the network for information related to the company; a valuation engine having a plurality of rules that calculates, in accordance with the plurality of rules, a business valuation of the company using the input company information and the information related to the company from the third party locations; a reporting engine that delivers the business valuation in a report; wherein the calculating the business valuation includes: wherein Rn is a predetermined ratio, and wherein the sum of all Rn for any w is 1;