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Selling your business – Hire a business broker

Selling a business requires a lot of work, including things like financial analysis, market research and more…   Of course you have to start your exit strategy early and clearly understand your motivation.  Hopefully you have your books in order, you have built a mini

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Selling your business – Continue to Add Value

Selling a business requires a lot of work, including things like financial analysis, market research and more…   Of course you have to start your exit strategy early and clearly understand your motivation.  Hopefully you have your books in order, you have built a mini

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Buying a business – the final contract

We recently posted the 8 questions to ask when buying a business, now we highlight each question in a little more detail. What does the final contract look like?  Once you and the seller have agreed on the terms, the details

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Selling your business – Stay in Business while your business is for sale

Selling a business requires a lot of work, including things like financial analysis, market research and more…   Of course you have to start your exit strategy early and clearly understand your motivation.  Hopefully you have your books in order, you have built a mini

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Selling your business – Know your worth

Selling a business requires a lot of work, including things like financial analysis, market research and more…   Of course you have to start your exit strategy early and clearly understand your motivation.  You may already have your books in order, and you might

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Buying a business – making an offer?

We recently posted the 8 questions to ask when buying a business, now we highlight each question in a little more detail. Making an offer Assuming everything is good so far and you want to buy the business, it’s time to

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Selling your business – Build a Mini Business Plan

Selling a business requires a lot of work, including things like financial analysis, market research and more…   Of course you have to start your exit strategy early and clearly understand your motivation.  Next you need get your books in order, and you

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Buying a business – financing options

We recently posted the 8 questions to ask when buying a business, now we highlight each question in a little more detail. What financing alternatives are available? One of the biggest hurdles when buying a business is to see if you

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Selling your business – Get your Financial Records in order

Selling a business requires a lot of work, including things like financial analysis, market research and more…   Of course you have to start your exit strategy early and clearly understand your motivation, but the real first step but before you get

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Buying a business – Do you know how the business operates?

We recently posted the 8 questions to ask when buying a business, now we highlight each question in a little more detail. Do you know how the business operates? Just like test driving a car before you purchase it, before you

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Selling your business – know your motivation!

Selling a business requires a lot of work, including things like financial analysis, market research and more…   The first thing is to get started early but before you get started it’s important to understand your motivation for selling your

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Buying a business – what’s it worth?

We recently posted the 8 questions to ask when buying a business, now we highlight each question in a little more detail. What’s the business worth? There are many ways to value a company.  A valuation may be based on book value,

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Selling your business – start early!

Selling a business requires a lot of work, including things like financial analysis, market research and more…   The key is to get started early so you’re ready.  It’s very typical for the sale of your business to take several months

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Buying a business – Past Performance?

We recently posted the 8 questions to ask when buying a business, now we highlight each question in a little more detail. What does the business’ past performance look like? Before you buy a business, study the business’ past performance. Ask

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5 quick steps to close your business

As mentioned in our 7 tax questions to ask yourself, there’s more to closing your business than closing the doors and heading to the beach. With no evidence of closure, in CRA’s eyes, your business officially continues, and you end

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