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Documenting Your Company: The Key To Closing A Deal

May 16, 2011 By Carl Doerksen

Many of you are contemplating the sale of your company without the use of an experienced M&A advisor. If you do proceed on your own, it will be critical that you develop accurate and detailed documentation for buyers to review. If you don’t, chances are good that your sale could take far longer, and deals will fall apart repeatedly, as buyers ask you questions you are unable to answer.

In order to make the sales process go more smoothly, we highly recommend that you take the time necessary to thoroughly document your entire operation. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: documentation, financial statements, history, M&A, operations

Selling A Business: The Three Variables

May 3, 2011 By Tom Farrell

As a business owner, no matter how much control you have over the day to day operations of your business you cannot always control the factors that determine the outcome of the sale of your business.

What you can do, however, is thoroughly understand these factors and focus on the parts you can control.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: business, capital markets, operations

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