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Can I Sell My Business For Less Than I Owe the Bank?
For many businesses, the ultimate goal is to sell the business. Can you picture it? Walk away from the daily stress and aggravation with a fat pile of cash. Hop a plane to your favorite tropical destination and spend the rest of your days lounging a white sandy beach, sipping pina coladas out of a coconut, without a care in the world.
Well, friends, the above scenario is the ideal scenario. I like sipping cold drinks on a beach as much as the next guy, and I hope that happens for you. But if you clicked on this article, you may be looking at a much different scenario.
And that’s what this article is going to cover: the less-than-ideal scenario.
5 Differences Between a Business Broker & Real Estate Broker
Often successful business owners invest in real estate because it can be a tax efficient way to handle the retained earnings of a...
Top Seven Important Deal Terms When Selling a Business
Learn why the business’ selling price is often not the most important deal term when selling a business. Summary of seven additional important deal terms.
How to Successfully Acquire A Business In A Seller’s Market
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.
Commercial Lease Assignment When Selling Your Business
The commercial lease assignment when selling your business can be one of the most overlooked barriers to completing the transaction.
Selling Your Business To a Competitor
Speaker: Holly A. Magister, CPA and Certified Financial Planner® This post is intended to help those who either own a business or advise...
Earnings Growth Versus Revenue Growth
For many entrepreneurs, launching a new business often means walking a fine line between pursuing earnings growth and growing the top-line revenue. A business can’t be successful in the long-term without earning a profit, but it also must reinvest some of its profit to grow beyond a startup, expanding into new markets or geographical territories. Understanding the differences between earnings growth versus revenue growth will help business owners prioritize their next growth steps and to recognize the difference between increasing profitability vs. increasing sales volume.
Contribution Margin Formula
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.
Working Capital Adjustment
Ask your Question below!One of our investors or advisors will answer.When a business is sold, sometimes an adjustment to the purchase...
How is a Business Valued
There are many ways to compute the value of a business, and an equal number of differing opinions regarding a particular methodology’s...
Small Business Financing
Without cash flow, a business cannot pay its employees, make debt payments, or invest in its future growth – making cash flow a critical focal point in every business, regardless of size. Yet searching for the correct small business financing can be overwhelming, especially for the first time borrower. Today, small business owners have a number of options when it comes to obtaining financing to start or grow their business.
Business Lending
Whether you’re a Main Street small business, an Entrepreneur growing a business from start-up, or a Middle Market Business about to embark on an Initial Public Offering (IPO), chances are you’ve had to turn to your local or regional bank or credit union to borrow business capital. And chances are you’ve learned these business lending institutions make their decisions based on what is known in the industry as the three C’s of lending: Cash Flow, Collateral, Credit History (or Credit Score)
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