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Exit Planning
Insights on maximizing value, overcoming obstacles, and ensuring a smooth transition.
Business Value
Learn proven strategies to increase your company’s value, overcome growth barriers, and position it for a profitable exit.
Finance Strategy
Practical advice to optimize cash flow, manage financial risks, and ensure your business stays on a path to sustained growth and profitability.
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How To Improve Business Stability
In a world of uncertainties, stability and resilience are key to business success. COVID-19 taught us the importance of building strategies for long-term business health.
Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Business’s Performance
Ten best practices widely recognized as effective ways to ensure or improve business performance
How the Four Types of Intellectual Property Contribute Value to Your Company
Intellectual property is a highly valuable type of intangible business capital. It can take 1 of 4 forms: trademarks, patents, copyrights, or trade secrets.
Your company must take the time and invest the resources to protect its intellectual property! Learn why IP’s are so important, and how you can protect yours in our latest article.
Five Ways Financial Management Improves Your Business’s Value
Poor financial management can manifest itself in many ways, but the price is always the same: the value of your business.
Odds are, as the owner of your business you are a strategist, visionary, and leader. But you likely don’t have the bandwidth to manage the complexities of your business’s finances.
But not to worry! We’ve outlined 5 ways financial management will improve your business’s value.
How To Avoid the Biggest Valuation Mistake Made by Business Owners
You’ve been working on the sale of your business for months now. All the work, not just to complete this sale but to build a business someone else actually wants to buy, is about to pay off.
You hold your breath as the sales agent slides a piece of paper across the desk towards you…with a number completely different than you’d negotiated!
“As you know, we did a final business valuation last week to determine the final sale price for the closing today,” she explains. “After reviewing all of your records, we have determined that the value decreased from our initial estimate a year ago. As a result, the sale price will be 25% lower than we originally planned.”
What happened to the profitable sale you worked so hard for?!