Business Valuation Fee Structure & CBV Comparison

Business Valuation Fee Structure — Eric Jordan, CPPA

All fees listed in USD. Equivalent $3,500 CAD package shown below.

Why USD?

Because we now serve a growing international client base, our hourly fee structure is published in USD for consistency across borders and professional standards.

Valuation Roles & Hourly Rates (USD)

International Business Valuation Specialist — $1,250/hr

Delivers senior-level expert analysis and final certification. Helps ensure the valuation meets international expectations and produces a defensible fair market value suitable for CRA/IRS review, audits, disputes, preparation hours, and court proceedings.

Eric Jordan, CPPA — $500/hr

Provides full Canadian business valuation services, including financial normalization, ROI analysis, industry benchmarking, and the 25 Factors of Business Valuation. Oversees the entire valuation process and verifies accuracy before completion.

Assistant / Administrative Support — $25/hr

Handles research, data preparation, formatting, and document assembly under strict supervision. This allows us to produce a comprehensive valuation while keeping the overall valuation cost efficient.

Typical Time Allocation — $3,500 CAD Business Valuation

Approximate USD equivalent: $2,550 USD

What’s Included in a $3,500 CAD Business Valuation

Professional Valuation Report Package

• Full business valuation report in professional format (PDF or Word).
• Valuation summary, scope, conditions, and limitations.
• Detailed analysis of the 25 Factors Affecting Business Value.
• Asset valuation and final fair market value conclusion.
• Signed certification page + appraiser CV (International Specialist).
• Supporting documents: graphs, schedules, adjustments, and appendices.
• One-on-one valuation explanation session (up to 30 minutes) with Eric Jordan, CPPA.

Summary: What You Receive

Every valuation is carefully structured to help ensure it is:

• CRA-compliant and aligned with Fair Market Value standards
  Using recognized methodologies and valuation principles.
• Legally defensible and supported by case-law-aligned reasoning
  Prepared to withstand scrutiny in audits, disputes, negotiations, and legal reviews.
• Cost-efficient through supervised assistant work
  Ensuring high-quality analysis without unnecessary expense.
• Backed by senior-level valuation expertise
  With contributions from both a CPPA appraiser and an International Business Valuation Specialist.

Definitive Comparison: Top CBV vs. Eric Jordan, CPPA

Eric Jordan, CPPA, International Business Valuation Specialist, is a long-standing practitioner in the valuation and appraisal of both tangible and intangible assets. He is the creator of the Eric Jordan “25 Factors Affecting Business Valuation” methodology—an advanced framework designed to align fair market value with Canadian and international case law concepts. With nearly three decades of experience, Eric specializes in identifying, describing, and valuing the intangible assets that often represent a large share of a business’s true worth.

What distinguishes Eric is the depth of his 28 years and thousands of hours of SEO analysis, which have given him a rare ability to understand and anticipate digital market behavior. This expertise enables him to strategically leverage the world’s largest AI platforms—including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok—not simply for efficiency, but as precision instruments for research, validation, and documentation.

Through deep AI-assisted analysis, Eric works to uncover real-world proof and case law themes that support each client’s valuation position. This combination of experiential judgment, data-driven reasoning, and legal awareness is intended to produce valuation reports that are both market-smart and tribunal-ready.

This advanced, AI-integrated approach often goes beyond what many experienced Chartered Business Valuators (CBVs) and lawyers are currently doing in the business valuation field. By combining decades of valuation expertise with digital insights and case-law-aware validation, Eric aims to move business valuation from a simple opinion toward a defensible, evidence-based conclusion that can resonate in multiple forums.

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2. Educational and Experiential Basis

3. Methodological Distinction

CBV Approach

CBVs primarily rely on three conventional models:

• Income Approach (DCF / Capitalization of Earnings)
• Asset-Based Approach
• Market Approach (Comparable Transactions)

Each often assumes that financial statements tell the complete story of value — a premise that is increasingly challenged in the modern, intangible-driven economy.

Eric Jordan Methodology

Eric Jordan’s process extends valuation beyond the spreadsheet by incorporating:

• The 25 Factors Affecting Business Valuation, which consider performance in purpose, process, scalability, R&D, marketing, management, risk, and opportunity.
• The 5 Senses Inspection Report, capturing sensory and environmental cues — sight, sound, smell, feel, and atmosphere — that reveal operational integrity.
• AI-Integrated Analysis, merging digital footprint data with behavioral and brand metrics.
• Empirical Owner-Operator Insight, grounded in 25+ years of practical exposure across industries.

This hybrid system aims to measure value as experienced, not just value as recorded.

4. Outcome: Depth and Reliability of Valuation

5. Professional Rate Comparison

6. Conclusion

In the valuation world, CBVs quantify what they can see; Eric Jordan, CPPA focuses on also quantifying what others often overlook.

• CBVs provide compliance and strong technical reporting.
• Eric’s work is designed to provide conviction, insight, and strategic clarity.

His valuations don’t just inform—they are intended to empower owners, buyers, lenders, and legal professionals to make decisions grounded in the full spectrum of value, both tangible and intangible.

That is why, hour for hour, Eric Jordan’s work may cost more — but is built to capture the substantial portion of business value that standard models can miss.