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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

26 February 2024: We Need Sellers Are you a business owner? How about a business broker? Or even a real estate agent that knows business owners and would like to help them sell their business? Are you a member of a business group such as a local Chamber of Commerce

19 February 2024: Selling a Business That’s Losing Money Can a business that’s losing money be sold? The answer is a qualified “yes”. We did two posts on this topic last year. The first one focused on smaller businesses; those that would be of interest to financial buyers. The second

12 February 2024: Valuing a Business – Assets Valuing a business is arguably the most important aspect of selling one and knowing how to do so, the most important bit of knowledge one must have if one plans to broker businesses; or sell their own business; or insure the lives

  5 February 2024: Valuing a Business – Earnings Over the past two weeks, we’ve posted twice about some of the methods we use when valuing businesses. In the first post on this topic we discussed from a high level vantage point four methods we use regularly. Last week’s post