# In an op-ed, Professor Aswath Damodaran lists three factors that frequently hinder valuations

1 Faculty News August 16, 2015 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/aswathdamodaran/2015/08/16/these-3-issues-can-sink-a-business-valuation/) -- "At valuation conferences and in valuation treatises, we spend our time immersed in valuation details including how best to estimate cash flows, discount rates and deal with valuation loose ends, but we seldom talk about the bias, uncertainty and complexity. Valuation practice will be better served if we had an honest and open discussion of how we deal with these structural problems, because they remain the biggest barriers to good valuations."

[Read more](http://www.forbes.com/sites/aswathdamodaran/2015/08/16/these-3-issues-can-sink-a-business-valuation/)