Menu
  • Home
  • Financial Transactions
  • Operating Finance
  • Personal Finance
  • Business Planning

#23: How to Prepare Your Business for Sale

Objective: To Know the When, Why, and How to Sell a Business

Selling a business is a time-consuming, emotionally-draining experience. But you owe it to yourself, your family, and your heirs to invest the energy and time to do it right. That same careful approach described in this Resource Report should be used if you’re buying or investing in a business.

This Report answers the following questions:

  • When should I sell the business?
  • How do I “window dress” the company to maximize its value and selling price?
  • What is a justifiable price?
  • How do I structure the sale for the most after-tax money?
  • When and how should I collect the money: all cash at closing, an installment payout, part contingency sale, stock exchange, or a combination?
  • What assets should I value and sell separately, e.g., a real estate affiliate owned by me and my family?
  • How do I make sure I get all the money due me?
  • What are my benefits and obligations after the company is sold and how much will I be paid for these obligations, such as continued employment, consulting, a noncompete agreement, etc.?

While these questions may seem insignificant in relation to the overall purchase price, they can loom large during the final stages of negotiation…and in the future after the deal is closed.

This Report includes 9 Ways to Value the Business…4 Ways to Get Paid…How to Adjust the Financial Statements to Maximize the Value and Selling Price…and 14 Ways to Increase the Company’s Value and Selling Price.

You want to walk away from the sale of your business knowing that you received the best possible price…incurred the minimum tax liability…assumed no liabilities going forward…and received sufficient money for you and your spouse to retire comfortably.You want a full, final, and unquestionable closing.

This Report will show you how to accomplish those objectives.

#23: How to Prepare Your Business for Sale
Price: $59.00   |   Pages: 24

Icon
Download

Solutions

  • Asset Analysis/Valuation
  • Business Math
  • Buying, Selling, Valuing a Business
  • Capital and Financing
  • Compensation Benefits
  • Estates, Wills, Trusts
  • Improving Cash Flow/Profit
  • Insurance
  • Leasing and Renting
  • Personal Finance
  • Real Estate
  • Succession Issues
  • Tax Planning
  • You, Family, Business

Information Center

  • 40 Resource Reports
    • 28 Business Resource Reports
    • 12 Personal/Family Reports
  • 14 Action Reports
  • Case Studies
  • Personal Finance
  • Manuals
  • Ideas of the Month

For You and About Us

  • Using the Library
  • You and Your Business
  • Our Mission
  • Who We Are
  • Customer Testimonials
  • Work with Us
    • Associations
    • Media/Publishers

Ideas of the Month

  • Four Action Alerts on Purchasing, Inventory, and Suppliers
  • Facts and Due Diligence to Adequately Protect Your Home
  • Have You Selected the Right Executor/Executrix?
  • Know Facts and Cautions on Buying Zero Coupon Bonds vs. Regular Bonds
  • Protect Assets and Net Worth with Umbrella Insurance
  • How to Automatically Increase Your Life Insurance
  • Use of a Living Trust Is Not for Everyone
  • Owner Is Forced to Sell, but Gets Cash and Affiliate
  • What Investment and Workshop Expenses Are Tax Deductible?
  • Business Association Insurance Can Reduce Costs

Our Idea of the Month are brief articles designed to help you save money, protect your assets, make more-informed decisions, and increase your personal and business wealth.


Tom MartinThe Ideas of the Month are principally written by Thomas J. Martin, publisher and president, author, lecturer, consultant, investment banker, college professor, and founder of our publishing company in 1977. For 39 years, Tom has helped hundreds of businesses and individuals on many of the topics covered on this website. The Case Studies are actual, real-life examples of how businesses and individuals solved problems, took advantage of opportunities, and met big challenges. For subjects covered, please see Solutions (15 Critical Subject Areas) in the Menu Bar at the left side of this page. Enjoy and we look forward to reading your comments

  • Home
  • Financial Transactions
  • Operating Finance
  • Personal Finance
  • Business Planning

The last update of this website was on March 5 2020.
Copyright © 2003-2020 MW Business Solutions, Inc. | Site design by Plaid Pants Media