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Business valuations in Ohio for donations, M&A, gift tax, and IRA conversion, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises small businesses, partnerships, corporations, LLCs, and professional practices across Ohio, including Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT BUSINESS APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, OHIO COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
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Owner & CEO
Joe founded AppraiseItNow to make a certified, USPAP-compliant appraisal as simple to order as anything else online. A former Bain & Company strategy consultant, Joe leads the entire team and specializes in strategy, growth, and the firm's tech capabilities.
Business Valuation Expert & Appraiser
ASA, ABV, and CFA charterholder. Since 2016 Justin has valued businesses for estate and gift tax, purchase price allocations, fairness opinions, lending, and buy-sell agreements, across manufacturing, services, retail, and pre-revenue biotech.
Business Valuation Expert & Appraiser
Accredited Senior Appraiser with the American Society of Appraisers. Raymond values capital stock, business enterprises, stock options, and intangible assets.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
American Society of AppraisersAccredited Senior Appraiser
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow provides professional business valuation appraisal services throughout Ohio, supporting clients across a wide range of purposes including charitable donations, mergers and acquisitions, gift tax reporting, and IRA conversions. Ohio's economy spans advanced manufacturing, agribusiness, logistics, healthcare, and aerospace, creating complex and varied valuation needs for privately held companies, family businesses, and enterprise assets of all sizes. Whether you are navigating a business sale in Columbus, planning an estate transfer for a northeast Ohio manufacturing firm, or documenting a charitable contribution for IRS compliance, our credentialed appraisers deliver accurate, well-supported valuations that meet federal standards under USPAP and IRS requirements.
Our appraisers work with clients across Ohio through both remote and onsite engagements, adapting to the specific needs of each business and transaction. Remote appraisals are conducted efficiently using financial records, tax returns, and supporting documentation provided digitally, while onsite visits are available for businesses requiring physical inspection of assets, facilities, or inventory. Learn more about our full business appraisal capabilities and how we structure each engagement. We offer Fair Market Value (FMV) appraisals for various intended uses.
Ohio businesses span a broad spectrum of industries and ownership structures, and our appraisers are equipped to value a wide range of business types and interests. We commonly appraise:
For more specialized engagements, our appraisers apply appropriate valuation methodologies including the income approach, market approach, and asset-based approach depending on the business type and purpose. Ohio's family-owned manufacturing sector, which accounts for a significant share of the state's business landscape, often requires careful analysis of marketability and control discounts. Agribusiness valuations in Ohio incorporate USDA commodity data and income-based methods to account for the volatility of Great Lakes agricultural markets.
AppraiseItNow serves a broad range of clients across Ohio, including individual business owners, estate attorneys, CPAs, financial advisors, M&A professionals, nonprofit organizations, and financial institutions. Whether you are a small business owner in Dayton seeking a gift tax valuation or a corporate acquirer in Cleveland evaluating a manufacturing target, our team is ready to support your specific valuation needs.
What clients say we are known for
Across 80+ published AppraiseItNow reviews the picture is consistent: every one is from a client who paid us for an appraisal, and the three things they raise most often are that they would hire us again, how quickly we answer, and how much research is visible in the report.
Responsive, professional, first class deliverables -- especially considering that that the appraised assets are extremely complex financial assets with little by way of comps. The deliverable satisfied my accountants and advisers as being more than adequate to support the valuation needed to complete a conversion to a Roth IRA
Business Valuation Appraisal for IRA Conversion
Joe and Aron were extremely impressive - the entire process went very smoothly. They were always quick to respond to any questions I had and could not have been more helpful. They were aware of some tight time restrictions I had and made sure I received my reports in a timely fashion. I highly recommend them to anyone needing a valuation.
Business Valuation Appraisal for Charitable Donation
I used AppraiseItNow to examine a contribution to a foundation. Their work was quick, thorough, and easy to work with, as they’ve developed a simple system for uploading documents. I plan to use them again.
Business Valuation Appraisal for Charitable Donation
The team was highly knowledgeable, helpful, and efficient. I highly recommend their appraisal services, especially for private companies.
Business Valuation Appraisal for IRA Conversion
I found them professional & responsive. The report was quite thorough as well.
Business Valuation Appraisal for Charitable Donation
From the start they were very responsive, price competitive, and had a quick turn around time. Thank you so much to Joe who was very sweet in responding to my emails; I am looking forward to utilizing AppraiseItNow for many years to come.
Given the USPAP-compliant nature of AppraiseItNow’s appraisal reports, we prepare our deliverables for major legal, tax, and financial reporting purposes for individual and commercial clients.
Popular uses of our appraisal reports include:
The income, market, and asset-based approaches, all of which must be considered under IRS Business Valuation Guidelines and professional standards from the AICPA, ASA, and NACVA. We select and weight the methods that best fit the company, using transaction databases such as DealStats and BIZCOMPS for market evidence rather than generic multiples.
No. Professional standards limit rules of thumb to reasonableness checks because a revenue or EBITDA multiple ignores earnings quality, growth, asset mix, and risk. A defensible conclusion analyzes the company's actual financial statements, industry conditions, and comparable transactions.
No. Ohio's estate tax was repealed effective January 1, 2013, and the state has no inheritance tax, so a valuation of a decedent's business interest serves federal estate tax reporting and Ohio probate rather than any state transfer tax.
Ohio Admin. Code 5703-3-10 defines true value as the price the property would bring between a willing buyer and seller in an arm's-length sale, and requires appraising the property as part of an ongoing business unless a piecemeal liquidation basis is demonstrably more accurate. That premise distinction can move the numbers substantially.
