March 1998
The Director - Features
Appraising Your Retirement Plans
An estate planner would want to know the very basics about your family s situation before giving you advice on making retirement plans. One of the first steps on making an appraisal of your business is creating a balance sheet.
Appraising Your Retirement Plans, by Robert Ninker, illustrates how to put together a balance sheet and gives an example of one. The article also includes 12 questions you need to ask yourself while appraising your business.
Ninker is the executive director of the Illinois FDA, Springfield, IL and a certified business appraiser with personal experience in 600 funeral home appraisals.
