Can you handle a company with operations outside the US?

Yes. Between US CPA supervision and IBBI/ICAI-credentialed valuation expertise on the India side, we are built for businesses that run across borders or multiple jurisdictions.

● Business Valuation Services

Business Valuation Services in Dallas, Texas

Raise a round, sell the company, hand equity to the next generation, or answer an examiner – each one turns on a value someone else will test. CountSure delivers independent, defensible valuations for Dallas businesses, CVA certified and prepared under Licensed US CPA supervision.

● Why It Matters

The moment you need a number you can defend

Almost no one commissions a valuation out of curiosity – there is usually a date on the calendar. These are the moments a number that holds up actually changes what happens next.

Raising capital

A backer wants your 409A before the term sheet is signed

Dallas rounds do not wait around. A clean 409A means you can price options and close the raise without a valuation question becoming the thing that holds everyone up.

Selling or merging

A price is on the table and you need footing

Buyer or seller, sitting across from a number you cannot back is a weak place to be. An independent valuation hands you ground the other side cannot simply wave away.

Transferring ownership

Shares are moving to family or into an estate plan

The IRS reads gift and estate filings closely, and a soft number is where it starts pulling. A supportable valuation shields both the transfer and the people counting on it.

Facing an audit

An auditor or examiner wants to see your work

Once the question lands, the report has to answer it on its own. We write ours for exactly the reader most inclined to push back on the conclusion.

None of these quite fit your situation?

Walk us through what is coming up. We will steer you to the valuation that fits – or tell you plainly if you do not need one at all.

● What We Value

Valuation Services We Offer

Eight focused services, each matched to a specific purpose, stage, and standard of value.

Startup Valuation

Defensible valuations for early-stage and venture-backed companies raising capital or issuing equity.

409A Valuation

IRS-compliant fair market value reports for common stock and employee equity grants.

Purchase Price Allocation

Allocation of acquisition consideration across tangible and intangible assets for reporting.

Portfolio Valuation

Audit - ready fair value marks for funds, GPs, and institutional investors.

Intangible Asset Valuation

Valuation of patents, trademarks, customer relationships, and other intangibles.

Merger & Acquisition Valuation

Transaction support and fairness analysis for buy - side and sell - side deals.

Gift & Estate Tax Valuation

IRS-compliant valuations for
wealth transfer, gifting, and estate planning.

Compliance Service Valuation

Ongoing valuation support to keep your business audit ready and compliant.

● Inside the Report

A figure is only as good as what sits behind it

A number is easy. The proof under it is the hard part, and that is where most of our hours go.

For a Dallas business, we work past the headline financials to the drivers that actually set value, then pull them into one conclusion you can hold your ground on – whether the reader is a lender, a board, or an examiner.

What you own and owe

A full read of the balance sheet and cap structure - not just the numbers that sit at the top.

How you earn

A forward look at cash flow, margins, and whether the earnings are built to last.

Where you can go

A grounded take on growth, room to scale, and where you stand against the competition.

What the market says

Benchmarking against comparable Dallas and national transactions and the multiples they traded at.

● How We Get to a Number

Three ways to value a business - and the judgment to weight them

There is no one formula that fits every Dallas company. We begin with a simpler question – what really drives value here – and then lean on the approach, or blend of approaches, the evidence actually supports.

Approach 01

Income Approach

Prices the business on the cash it is likely to throw off, discounting projected flows or capitalizing earnings back to present value. It carries most operating companies with steady, readable results – and sits behind the bulk of 409A and M&A work – because it pays attention to what a company earns, not just what shows up on its books.

Approach 02

Asset Approach

Works up from the balance sheet – assets marked to fair value, liabilities netted out, landing on net asset value. It takes the lead for holding companies, real-estate and asset-heavy entities, and businesses whose earnings will not carry a going-concern number. More often than not it establishes the floor: what the business is worth even when the cash flows run thin.

Approach 03

Market Approach

Ties value to what comparable companies and deals have genuinely sold for, pulling multiples from guideline public companies and private transaction data. It comes into its own where believable comparables exist – and Dallas, with dense corporate, financial services, and middle-market deal flow, tends to supply the evidence this approach needs to rest a number on observed behavior rather than theory.

A number worth defending seldom leans on a single method. We run the approaches that fit your business, weight them against the facts, and reconcile them into one conclusion that stands up in front of an investor, a board, or the IRS.

● Why It Holds Up

Built to be defended, not just delivered

A valuation is really tested on the day someone decides to argue with it. Ours are built for that day, not the quiet ones before it.

Credentialed oversight

Led by Parth Shah, US CPA and Indian FCA. Our valuation practice is CVA certified through NACVA, and every engagement runs under Licensed US CPA supervision, with work credentialed under IBBI and ICAI on the India side.

Recognized methodology

We apply the established income, market, and asset-based approaches the same way every time, so the reasoning is transparent and anyone can follow it.

IRS-aware preparation

Every report is written with IRS expectations in view, giving you clean footing for 409A, gift, estate, and ownership-transfer matters.

Documented to the last assumption

Every conclusion traces back to the input it came from, so the report holds through audit, due diligence, and investor review.

Not the same thing as an asset appraisal

People run these two together all the time. Here is where valuing a business parts ways with appraising one asset, like a building.

	Business Valuation	Asset Appraisal (e.g. Real Estate)
What's valued	The whole operating business - cash flow, intangibles, and where it is headed.	One physical asset, such as a building or a piece of office property.
How	Income (DCF), market (comparable Dallas transactions), and asset-based approaches.	Sales comparison, cost, and property-specific income approaches.
Result	A single fair market value for the equity or the enterprise.	An estimated value for the one property or tangible asset in question.

From first call to a report you can use

A defined path with nothing hidden in it, so at every step you know where things stand and what is coming.

We set the brief together

We fix the purpose, the standard of value, and the effective date up front, so the engagement is scoped right from the first day.

You send the data over

Financials, the cap table, and the operating and legal documents we need – all collected through secure channels.

We read the market

We work through Charlotte trends, comparable deals, and the benchmarks that actually apply to your sector.

We settle on the approach

Income, market, or asset-based - whichever the facts call for - applied with the reasoning written down.

We build it and write it up

The model plus a clear, standards-aligned report, assumptions and supporting evidence included.

We stand behind it

We take you through the findings and stay reachable for boards, investors, auditors, and the IRS.

● What to Have Ready

Documents we'll ask you for

Most Dallas engagements run on the same short stack. Send what you have – we flag anything missing on the first call.

● What You Get

What you walk away with

Every engagement closes with the same set of working documents, built to be used rather than filed away.

Full written valuation report

The complete analysis: purpose, standard of value, the approaches applied, and the concluded number.

Executive summary

A short version built for boards, buyers, or counsel who need the conclusion without the full read.

Documented methodology and assumptions

The reasoning written out: which approaches we used, how we weighted them, and the inputs behind each.

Supporting exhibits and schedules

The financial analyses, comparable data, and calculations that sit under the conclusion.

A walkthrough call plus audit and reviewer support

We present the findings, then stay reachable when an auditor, investor, or examiner comes back with questions.

● Sector Fluency

Industries We Serve in Dallas

What sets value apart varies sector by sector. We shape each analysis around how these Dallas industries genuinely earn.

Banking & Financial Services

Regional banks, asset managers, broker-dealers, insurance carriers, and fintech firms have made this one of the country’s densest finance employment clusters, and new exchange infrastructure downtown has pulled still more capital-markets activity in. Regulatory capital, book-value adjustments, and fee-income durability all move the conclusion, and none of them read correctly off a generic earnings multiple.

Corporate Headquarters & Professional Services

The metro has absorbed more headquarters relocations than any other in the country over the past decade, and with them a deep bench of consulting, legal, staffing, and accounting firms serving them. Value in these firms sits in recurring engagements, client books, and key-person relationships, which is what makes partner buyouts and successions hard to price by formula.

Telecom & Technology

The corridor running north from the city carries one of the largest telecom and enterprise-software concentrations in the country, alongside a steady flow of venture-backed software and AI startups. These companies grant equity long before they turn a profit, so a current 409A is what keeps option grants clean through every round.

Aerospace & Defense

Aircraft assembly, avionics, components, and a wide tier of defense subcontractors are spread across the western half of the metro. Contract backlog, government relationships, and program-specific IP set value here, and a revenue multiple borrowed from commercial manufacturing will misread all three.

Logistics, Distribution & Data Centers

Central location, rail, and one of the world’s busiest airports feed a vast 3PL, warehousing, and distribution economy, now joined by heavy data-center construction drawing on available land and power. These operators are asset-heavy, and the owned real estate usually has to be separated from the operating business before either number means anything.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Large hospital systems, academic medical research, physician groups, medical device makers, and a growing pharmaceutical manufacturing base run across the metro. Practice sales, roll-ups, and physician buy-ins turn on a number both sides can accept, and early-stage life sciences value often lives in IP and trial data rather than current earnings.

● Local Ground Truth

What makes a Dallas valuation different

The method is national; the ground it stands on is local. These are the Dallas-specific dynamics a generic template quietly skips.

A relocation economy that prices businesses on inbound demand

The metro has led the country in corporate headquarters arrivals for most of the past decade, and the suppliers, service firms, and contractors around those arrivals get bid on by buyers who are new to the market. That inbound competition lifts multiples in some sectors well above what regional comparables alone would suggest, so the transaction evidence has to be screened for who was actually buying, not just what changed hands.

Finance, telecom, and industrial land sit in one market with very different value drivers

A capital-markets firm downtown, an enterprise software company along the northern corridor, and a distribution operator on the industrial edge share a metro and almost nothing else about how they earn. Guideline sets have to be drawn from the right sector rather than the right zip code, and the split shows up hardest on the real estate: newer suburban office and modern industrial hold value while older stock carries far higher vacancy, so comparables diverge sharply by vintage.

No state income tax, but a franchise tax and county property tax fill the gap

Texas levies no personal or corporate income tax, which owners relocating from higher-tax states often read as no state burden at all. In practice the franchise (margin) tax applies to most entities above the revenue threshold on gross margin rather than profit, and county appraisal districts assess business personal property annually on a rendition due each April, with a penalty for skipping it. Both layers reshape after-tax deal models, and there is no state estate or inheritance tax to complicate family transfers.

● Avoid These

Mistakes Dallas owners make with valuations

Five patterns we see over and over, each one avoidable with a little lead time.

Waiting until a deal is already on the table

By the time a letter of intent arrives, there is no time left to clean the books or fix the cap table. A valuation produced under deadline pressure reads that way to the other side, and it costs you leverage.

Relying on a rule-of-thumb multiple or an online calculator

A "3x revenue" shortcut ignores margins, customer concentration, and what buyers actually paid for comparable companies. Neither the IRS nor a lender gives it any weight.

Letting a 409A go stale after a round or material event

A new financing, a major contract win, or any material shift resets fair market value. Granting options on last year's number creates tax exposure your employees end up carrying.

Confusing an asset appraisal with a business valuation

Ordering a property appraisal when the deal needs a business valuation leaves the operating company unpriced. With so many Dallas owners holding their own warehouse, clinic, or office building, the two get blended constantly - and the blend muddies both numbers.

Assuming no state income tax means no state tax to model

Owners who relocated here from higher-tax states often treat Texas as tax-free at the state level and skip the layer entirely. The franchise (margin) tax still applies to most entities on gross margin rather than profit, and the county appraisal district assesses business personal property every year on a rendition that carries a penalty if it is missed. A valuation that ignores both overstates what a buyer actually keeps.

● The CountSure Difference

Why Choose CountSure?

Any number of firms will hand you a valuation. Here is what changes when Dallas owners pick us to prepare it.

Independent, CPA-supervised

CVA certified through NACVA and run under Licensed US CPA supervision - an impartial conclusion that stands up in front of investors, auditors, and the IRS.

One accountable lead

Parth Shah, US CPA, CVA, and Indian FCA, leads the work himself - it is not passed off down a chain. You always know exactly whose name is behind the number.

A full-service partner

The valuation ties into our broader tax, accounting, and advisory work, so the conclusion sits inside the bigger picture rather than off on its own.

Built for the Dallas market

We build in the local realities - from a relocation-driven corporate base to the Texas franchise tax and the county property-tax layer - that a generic, out-of-market template would skate right past.

● Who We Work With

The people who come to us in Dallas

HOW FAST

1 to 2 weeks

is the usual draft turnaround on many standard valuations once your data is in. We lock a firm timeline on the first call, and when a deal, a round, or a filing deadline is setting the pace, we can move faster.

● Where We Work

Across Dallas and the metro area

We work with businesses throughout Dallas and the surrounding region:

● Questions

Valuation questions Dallas owners ask us

What usually sends a Dallas business looking for a valuation?

Nine times out of ten there is a deal or a date behind it – an acquisition, a raise that needs a 409A, or a gift or estate filing. Bank financing and succession planning bring owners in just as often.

Does Texas having no income tax change what my business is worth?

It changes what you keep, and often the value itself. There is no state income tax, but the franchise (margin) tax sits on gross margin rather than profit, and the county appraisal district assesses business personal property annually on a rendition due in April. We build those layers into the model rather than valuing your company as if it sat anywhere, and there is no state estate or inheritance tax to complicate family transfers.

Will the report survive the IRS and outside auditors?

That is exactly the bar we write to. Reports are CVA certified, prepared under Licensed US CPA supervision using recognized methodology, with every assumption documented so the work holds up when it is reviewed.

How often should a Dallas startup refresh its 409A?

The working rule is once every twelve months – or sooner if something material happens, like a new round or a real shift in the business or its market.

What is the turnaround?

On many standard valuations, a draft lands within a few weeks of your data arriving – and we can compress that when a deadline is setting the pace.

Who actually does the work?

Parth Shah, US CPA and Indian FCA, leads every engagement. Our valuation practice is CVA (Certified Valuation Analyst) certified through NACVA, with US valuations performed under US CPA supervision and work credentialed under IBBI and ICAI on the India side.

Get Started

Put a number you can defend on your Dallas business

Bring us the deadline, the deal, or the filing – and we will hand back an independent, audit-ready valuation, prepared under Licensed US CPA supervision, that holds when it actually matters.