Category: Buy a Business

6 May 2024: Selling a Business: Price Allocation When buying or selling a business in the United States, buyers and sellers are required by the tax authorities to allocate the purchase price among the assets bought or sold based on the fair market value of those assets. These purchase price

29 April 2024: Buying a Business: The Legal Issues Buying a business is a significant, often life-changing event – usually the most significant event in the life of the buyer (at least until it’s time to sell!) – and it involves various legal considerations to ensure a smooth and lawful

22 April 2024: Selling a Business: The Importance of Documentation We’ve occasionally noted the importance of documentation in the preparation phase of selling a business. In fact, we spend a significant amount of time discussing it in the first of our six-part series on The Process of Selling a Business.

  15 April 2024: Buying a Business: Protect Yourself! When buying a business, the acquiring entity often wants to act quickly, especially if the market for the target business’ products or services is robust or growing. This is also the case in many acquisitions of businesses with significant seasonal cash

08 April 2024: Selling a Business: Capital Gains The following is adapted from an article that recently came to my attention – and, based on its content and structure, appeared to AI-generated but nonetheless contained nuggets of truth and conjecture that prompted this post’s topic: capital gains taxes when selling

  01 April 2024: Selling a Business: The Difference Between “Need” and “Value”? Selling a business is almost always the most significant financial event in a business owner’s life. As such, the process of selling a business is something an astute owner will understand and adhere to. That process –

  25 March 2024: Buying a Business: What to Ask Yourself If you’re thinking of buying a business, do you have any idea what to look for? We’re not referring to what type of business to look for but, rather, what to look for in a business that might interest

18 March 2024: Selling a Business: “Why Won’t Mine Sell?” “Why won’t mine sell?” In our business – advising business owners about selling their business – we get that question more often than we’d like. We get it from business owners who try to sell their business themselves – or

  11 March 2024: Buying or Selling PART of a Business Though many people don’t appreciate its frequency, selling or buying PART of a business is a commonplace event. We’ve held forth on this topic twice in the past (here and here) and, in fact, did a live webinar on

  4 March 2024: The Benefits of Using a Professional If you own a business, do you realized that, like every other business that doesn’t fail, it will sell one day? Your date with that inevitability may be many years from now or it may be so close that you