[.ca] The Small Business Valuation Book (ISBN 1580620051)

A good reference book on valuations:
I work as a business intermediary assisting clients in both selling and buying their business. I always recommend that first-time business buyers and sellers read this book so that they may acqaint themselves with the process.

The Small Business Valuation Book:
Recommended highly, but for persons with a strong background in Accounting, Business and Finance. Not for the beginner. A Harvard Education helps..

More about managing that buying a business:
This book wasn't bad, especially for the price, but there are better ones out there. ("The Upstart Guide to Buying, Valuing and Selling Your Business" for example.) About half the book is special situations or special types of companies, which is great if you happen to be one of those but not if you aren't. This book did cover the basics of business valuation, but I actually found it more useful for looking at the value of a business as a tool to improve its operations.

A decent book but:
Provides a summary treatment of this subject, but a book I like better is "Unlocking the Value of Your Business", which seems to be more complete, but easy to use and understand.