by J. Robert Brooks, CBI, CEPA J. Robert Brooks is a certified business intermediary and an experienced licensed real estate broker whose clients are all dentists. Brooks developed a patent-pending algorithm for scoring dental office locations and helped establish the International Business Brokers Association's niche credentialing program for dental practice brokers. He has served as program chairman for the national gathering of dental practice brokers known as the Practice Valuation Study Group. Brooks' primary work is to provide practice sellers and buyers with information and tools needed to achieve their goals. Email: office@practicendeavors.com DT1020_Brooks_Finance _MM.indd 38 9/18/20 8:50 AM