Selling your business is a major event, no matter how big the business and no matter how long you’ve owned it. The potential benefits to you and your business are significant, but the risks associated with getting it wrong can be devastating. If you are going to do...
Straightforward M&A: the big questions Q: What is my business worth? A: What someone is prepared to pay for it. While this is the honest answer, it is, perhaps, not very helpful if you are trying plan for a sale. So perhaps a better starting point would be to ask…...
Finding the perfect buyer… The odds of simply stumbling across the perfect buyer for your company are similar to the odds of getting struck by lightning – about 1 in 10 million according to the British Medical Journal. Or in other words, it could happen, but it most...
Management Accounts For an SME business, management accounts are often overlooked because they are seen as unnecessary, expensive and difficult to produce. That may very well be true in the day-to-day running of the business, after all, you have other ways to keep...
Second only to how much is my business worth, one of the most common questions we are asked is how can I increase my business valuation? As corporate finance experts, who help to sell businesses, our primary aims are to advise business owners on how to find the right...
