If you're thinking of selling your business, it's likely that your accountant will be one of the first people you turn to for advice. If you've used an accountant regularly to prepare your tax ... |
Along with your accountant, your lawyer needs to play a key role in your plans to sell your business, and in drawing up the legal documents that will carry ... |
You don't need to list your business with a business broker or agent in order to sell it. You may already have a good idea as to who the likely purchaser of your company would be — perhaps a key ... |
The role of business appraiser or valuation expert is an example of a job that might be filled by your accountant, by your mergers and acquisitions consultant, or by a specialist (usually a CPA) you ... |
It is absolutely essential that at least one of the members of your team be an expert in dealing with the tax aspects of business sales and acquisitions. This person may be your accountant, your ... |
In most cases where third-party financing will be needed to complete the sale of a business, it will be the buyer who selects the lender and negotiates for ... |
The subject of ethics in business is one that gets little attention in the press — at least, until someone goes to jail for insider trading, or is investigated for price-fixing discussions with ... |
If there's one overriding principle to observe, in the realm of dealing with potential buyers, it's that you must be truthful and complete in the information you share about your business. It's fine ... |
If you co-own your business with partners or other shareholders, the law imposes certain duties on you to deal fairly with them. |
The value of a typical small business should be greater than the total values of its hard assets. For a buyer, the key is that an ongoing business has everything necessary — equipment, location, ... |
