• Practice Management - QuickRead Top Story - Valuation/Appraisal

    Selling Your Business

    Post Closing Task List This article provides readers with a checklist used at a business transaction that just closed. The list was adapted from e-mails sent by the author to clients immediately after the closing. The list includes what they can and should do following the closing and is a way to further involve oneself in post-closing activities. The list collects all the different things (personal, investing planning, and business) the client would need to become involved with and think about, including the final sales’ price adjustments. This is a checklist for clients that just closed on the sale of…

  • QuickRead Top Story - Valuation/Appraisal

    Task List

    For When a Client Wants to Buy a Business The authors in this article share a checklist developed and provided to firm clients contemplating buying a business. The following are key steps involved when a client wants to buy a business. Buyers and their advisors can use this list as a timeline and road map of the steps that are expected to occur, and what they should plan on doing. A companion posting for clients that want to sell a business can be found at: https://quickreadbuzz.com/2020/06/17/business-valuation-ed-mendlowitz-task-list/ The buyer needs to make sure the seller wants to sell. The seller saying…

  • Mergers and Acquisitions/Exit Planning - QuickRead Top Story - Valuation/Appraisal

    Task List

    For When a Client Wants to Sell Their Business The authors in this article share a checklist developed and provided to firm clients contemplating a sell of their business. Following are the steps involved when a client wants to sell their business. Buyers can also use this list as a timeline and road map of the steps that are expected to occur and what is expected of them. ❏  Be sure client wants to sell ❏  Be doubly sure client wants to sell. Them saying it does not make it so. Many prospective sellers start the process but do not…