Our Team of Affiliated Professionals
QUALITY, INTEGRITY, EXCELLENCE
The first step in selling a business is determining its value. Our team of expert certified business appraisers will then work closely with our business broker and mergers and acquisitions partners to assemble a comprehensive marketing plan to make the transition from business ownership as painless and profitable as possible. All our team members have owned their own businesses and therefore have been through the process themselves. We know firsthand what it is all about and therefore can provide you with the best business valuation service available.
The Argonaut Gold Mine in Jackson, California, 300 yards from our office, is the deepest hard-rock mine in North American (one mile deep). It inspires our Team to work as hard as the early miners to make your gold mine profitable!
1151 Bramble Lane
Folsom, California 95630
Office: 209-256-1371
Fax: 916-260-5636
Joanie Hall
Joanie received her bachelor's degree in business from San Jose State University. She spent many years in various office management capacities working for attorneys, CPAs, and venture capital companies. At one point in time she was the personal assistant and office manager for the CEO of American Express. Along the way, she has performed accounting and control duties for a number of large and small privately-held companies. Absolutely no document leaves the office of Affordable Business Valuations without her stamp of approval.
It would be a major lapse if we didn't mention that she also raised four beautiful children while she co-managed the $9 million lumberyard with her husband Fred.
Kimberly Hall Fischer
We caught Kimberly here before she put her makeup on. But seriously, she graduated cum laude from San Diego State University with a bachelor's degree in business in 3-1/2 years! No small feat. When she is not working as a budget analyst for the US Army National Guard for the State of California, she also does research for the many valuations the company prepares.
Andrew Rogerson is a Certified Mergers and Acquisition Professional (CM&AP) and Mergers & Acquisition Master Intermediary (M&AMI) from the M&A Source; their two highest designations. He’s also a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) with the International Business Brokers Association and a Certified Business Broker (CBB) with the California Association of Business Brokers. This means he helps entrepreneurs sell a business or sell a medical practice with a value over $1,000,000, value a business, buy a business or buy a franchise.
Andrew is an entrepreneur at heart as its part of his DNA. Originally from Australia, Andrew’s grandfather was able to provide the initial finance for two of his children or Andrew’s uncles to establish the Kenworth truck franchise in Australia in the 1950’s. The rest as they say is history as the Kenworth franchise was so successful, Kenworth bought it back. This entrepreneur spirit was passed to Andrew as he is a 5-time business owner having owned two businesses in Australia and now three in California and enjoys helping entrepreneurs exit or enter business ownership.
His services include business brokerage; helping owners sell and/or buyers purchase a business including medical practice. He also provides consulting on purchasing a franchise, certified machinery and equipment appraisals and business valuations.
To ensure this is done to the highest standards, Andrew carries the CBI designation from the IBBA and M&A Source, the Certified Mergers and Acquisition Professional (CM&AP) and Mergers & Acquisition Master Intermediary (M&AMI) from the M&A Source and the Certified Business Broker (CBB) from the California Association of Business Brokers. Appraisals for Machinery & Equipment are certified with the CMEA designation from the NEBB Institute. Andrew carries a Broker’s License from the CA Department of Real Estate, has a Certificate of Taxation, and the past Sacramento Chair of the California Association of Business Brokers. Andrew is also available for speaking engagements. How can I help you?
For more information, visit Andrew’s website at http://www.rogersonbusinessservices.com
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C. Fred Hall, III, MBA, CBA, CVA, Emeritus
Andrew Rogerson CM&AP, M&AMI, CMI, CBI, CBB
2003 to Present – CEO and sole owner of Amador Appraisals and Acquisitions, Inc. and Amador Business Appraisals. During this period, I wrote business valuations for over 1,000 companies. I regularly presented lectures and webinars on business valuation techniques to a number of professional organizations in California. I have been invited to present seminars on valuation methodologies at a number of conferences held by various national organizations: 1) the annual Murphy Business and Financial Convention in Florida, 2) the annual NACVA Appraisers’ Conference in San Diego, 3) the annual New York Society of CPA’s Conference on Wall Street, and 4) the Financial Consultants’ Super Conference in Las Vegas.
I have written over 150 appraisals involving marriage dissolutions and partnership breakups which often required presenting and defending the findings to both parties and their attorneys. Over 75 of my appraisals were for a number of SBA Banks for their loan applicants. Those banks include: Bank of the West, Plumas Bank, Northern Nevada Bank, Temecula Bank, Comerica, Bridge Bank, River City Bank, Five Star Bank, First Community Bank, Umpqua Bank, and Cornerstone Community Bank. Over 25 of my appraisals were submitted to the Internal Revenue Service.
2011 to 2016 – I served as a commissioner on the planning commission for Jackson, California. And also served on a number of county-appointed commissions for Amador County.
2005 to 2009 – Managing partner of Compass Point Capital, specializing in mergers and acquisitions of smaller mid-sized companies ranging in revenues from $5 to $40 million.
2002 to 2007 – Business broker and business appraiser for Sunbelt Business Advisors of Sacramento and Reno. During this period, I successfully completed the course work for business appraisers offered by the IBA (Institute of Business Appraisers) and subsequently received the designation of CBA.
1977 to 2002 – Built a ground-up retail hardware and lumber company in Pine Grove, California. I took the company through four major expansions during this period. By 2002 the store grew to over $9,000,000 in annual revenue and 30 employees. From 1987 to 2002 I completely automated the company at all levels and networked a dozen workstations. I personally wrote scores of computer programs that involved every aspect of the operations, including inventory control, general ledger bookkeeping, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and a complex payroll program.
1977 to 1981 – Served on the Board of Directors and functioned as the CFO for Bay Cities Wholesale Hardware Company, a dealer-owned co-operative comprised of 350 stores in Northern California. We dealt with many union problems, a warehouse relocation from San Francisco to Manteca, and a complete computerization of operations.
1975 to 1978 – Purchased and operated a retail hardware company in Portola Valley, California.
1971 to 1975 – Business Analyst and Commercial Loan Officer at Union Bank in the San Francisco and Los Angeles headquarters offices. The first year involved a financial analyst training program that included nine months (at 40 hours a week) of financial analysis and legal environment of business lending, followed by three months of in-the-field appraisal training.
My appraisal research has been published in: 1) IBA’s quarterly journal, the “Business Appraisal Practice,” 2) Business Valuation Resource’s quarterly journal, the Business Valuation Update,” 3) Thomson-Reuter’s quarterly journal, the “Valuation Strategies,” and 4) NACVA’s quarterly, “The Value Examiner,” 5) I published "Valuing Businesses Using Regression Analysis. A Quantitative Approach to the Guideline Company Transaction Method," with John Wiley & Sons, Inc., January 2021. The 190-page book is presently sold on Amazon.com.
