“How much is my business worth?” and “How do I know for sure?” and “Why should I care?
After all, I have no intention of selling it right now.” As commercial bankers, we often heard our
customers asking questions like these. But, as bankers, we also knew that the bank had good
reason for caring about the value of a business — because we wanted to lend to “valuable”
businesses, not “worthless” ones.