Patent ID: 8468075

Claim:
A computer-implemented system for generating a business valuation, comprising: a tangible computing processor; a network port in data communication with the processor and operative to couple 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 operative to implement: a graphical user interface capable of querying a valuation requester to input information of a company, including general information, financial information, and presence information of the company, wherein the graphical user interface includes, for the inputting of the company information by the valuation requester: drop-down lists for selecting: an industry, a reason for a valuation, a business category, a form of ownership, and a number of intellectual properties owned, sliders for selecting: projected revenue growth, gross margin percentage, recurring revenue rate, and one of a venture capital and a private equity funding debt to equity ratio, and numeric fields for entering three years of financial data including: revenue, pretax income, interest expenses, owner safety, owner benefits/perks, cash, accounts receivables, inventory, fixed assets, general depreciation, and total debt; a query engine capable of querying third party locations on the network for information related to the company; a valuation engine having a plurality of rules and operative to calculate, in accordance with the plurality of rules, a tiered business valuation of the company to using the input company information and the information related to the company from the third party locations; and a reporting engine capable of delivering the tiered business valuation in a report to the valuation requester.