Finding a business for sale involves research, networking, a serious commitment of time and resources for due diligence, and above all careful consideration. Whether you are thinking about buying an existing business as an alternative to creating your own startup from scratch, there are many important factors to consider.
Follow our a step-by-step guide to help you find a business to buy.
In a previous post, we discussed how a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) company works, its many benefits, and the tax implications you may face if you hire one.
As a recap, a PEO is a service that small or medium-sized businesses may use to outsource some of their human resource, payroll, benefits, taxes, recruiting, and other management tasks. As you might imagine, there are both pros and cons in hiring a PEO.
Here, we’ll discuss the disadvantages of using a PEO, along with the associated costs of a PEO.
In our PEO series, we’ve talked about what a PEO company is and who is the employer in a PEO relationship. Here, we’ll discuss PEO for nonprofits, and whether or not using a PEO for your nonprofit might make sense.
Our PEO series is aimed at addressing the common questions about PEOs, and uncovering some of the lesser-known facts about working with a PEO so that you may make the best choices for your business.
So far, we’ve learned about what a PEO company does. Here, we’ll dive into some muddy waters and decipher who is really the employer in a PEO relationship.
If you are wondering what a PEO is and whether or not this type of outsourcing may be a good option for your small or medium-sized business, this first article in our series of four posts will help you decide if it’s the right move for you. In this post, we cover everything you need to know about a PEO company including:
• What’s the meaning of PEO?
• PEO payroll
• PEO benefits
• PEO tax implications, and more.
Doing deals can be expensive. A lot of entrepreneurs want to save money by not hiring an advisor or they don’t know when they should make the investment on an advisor. It’s important to understand the roles of the broker and other advisors, especially legal counsel, and to know when to bring in a professional. Here are some milestones in a deal, and how to know when to hire a business advisor.
We discuss how to successfully acquire a business in a seller’s market & get to the front of the line when a great seller opportunity becomes available.
Contribution margin is an important method of not only understanding how profitable a business is, but also how its products and services contribute to the bottom line. It’s important to understand that contribution margin is different from profit margin, since profit margin measures the total amount of sales revenue minus costs. Instead, contribution margin measures the profitability of each individual product or service after subtracting variable costs.
Entrepreneurship offers the most even-tempered humans many challenges. One suchDifficult Employees challenge is managing difficult employees who are forever causing havoc. You know who they are. And so does your spouse! One of my favorite clients refers to her difficult employees as her “high-maintenance employees.”
Business bad debt refers to any debt created or acquired in a trade or business (or closely related to a trade or business) that becomes partially or completely worthless and can not be collected. Business bad debt is the result of a customer, another business, or an individual who cannot or refuses to pay their debt obligation to your business for goods and services received or rents owed. Debt may be considered closely related to a business if it was incurred for legitimate business purposes such as lending money to a business owner so the business can pay a supplier or meet payroll cash requirements.
Busy entrepreneurs need to be aware of several important changes in federal 2017 Business Tax Filing Deadlines for the calendar year ending 12/31/2016. Most notably is now employers have one month less to file Forms W-2 and 1099 MISC with the Federal Government. In the past, this information was due on February 28th. Now both the recipient and the IRS must receive these documents by January 31st. Similarly, Partnership Form 1065 is now due a month earlier on March 15th . On the other hand, C Corporations have an additional month to file Form 1120. Its due date is now April 18th.
In business, the term exclusivity refers to a party’s sole rights with regard to a certain business activity. This may include business relationships, pricing, products, or sales. Another application of this term in the business world involves relationships between parties, most notably in the form of exclusivity agreements. This post addresses how two forms of exclusivity agreements or clauses may be useful in business acquisitions and mergers and
strategic business relationships between two or more parties.
Intangible assets are those assets in a business which are not physical in nature. Some examples include: intellectual property, (like patents, trademarks, and copyrights), brand recognition, special knowledge, and business methods. Such non-physical assets add value to a company over time and cannot be destroyed in a flood, fire, or other disaster. Rather they can help build up a company should a calamity strike.