A Collection Of The Internet's Top Resources For Anyone Considering Selling Their Business
According to BizBuySell, an online platform for the sale of businesses, Q3 shows small businesses selling at the highest prices ever with a median price of $249,000, up 10.7% from a similar period in...
EBITDA or earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation is widely used in the valuation of businesses. Where the value of a business is quoted in terms of a multiple of earnings the earnings...
Garden centres tend to be family run businesses, and as with many family run businesses today it’s seldom the case that the next generation take on the mantle and continue in the family trade....
Patrick Galleher of merchant bank Boxwood Partners provides advice on the qualities that appeal to buyers of businesses. In summary: 1. A Reasonable And Fair Asking Price 2. A Good Reputation 3. A Company...
A typical business sale contract involves among other things, warranties and indemnities provided from the vendor to the buyer. These are meant to cover a whole range of risks and typically run into several...
Mike Finger takes a look at the difference between building a business that is highly successfully and … building a business that will appeal to buyers and generate the best price. And, no, they...
According to MoneyWeek, private equity firms have been raising capital at the fastest rate than they’ve managed in over a decade and that they are currently flush with cash and desperately looking for the...
When it comes to intermediaries who assist with the sale of businesses – whether they call themselves business brokers, business transfer agents, investment banks or corporate finance firms – there are some who specialise...
Business owners often page a disparity between what they currently receive from their businesses and what they can expect to receive from the proceeds of their sale. The sale price, when invested, is unlikely...
The profession would say, of course, that you should be hiring an advisor, not doing it yourself. But, is that always true? Chad Byers of Symmetrical Investments, LLC makes some good arguments in his...
In a recent article, CPA Practice Advisor argues that the reasons why businesses don’t sell are varied and include changes in market conditions and businesses lacking proper documentation. However, like with other articles talking...
TechCrunch sheds some light on how a VC deal is negotiated. The terms that come up during the discussion and the various valuation related issues that arise are often a great mystery to many...
The SBA in the USA finances many business acquisitions deals and, as business loan experts, have put together some tips on what lenders like to see when financing a buyout. They include: Trend –...
Bizjournals argues that M&A in the US was slowing because … the price was just not right, and no tax reform or stock market’s gains will make the blindest bit of difference to the...
Entrepreneur.com offers to show how to strike a fair deal when selling your business to your employees. Mark J Kohler, author of The Business Owner’s Guide to Financial Freedom, provides an extract from the...
Selling your business in two parts can be a great way to extract a price that is could be several multiples of what you’d make from selling the entire company in a single transaction....
Businesses in the UK have been selling at an average of 7.3 x EBIT, according to PERDa.net. This compares with a multiple of 6.8 in the corresponding period a year ago. According to Perda:...
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