
January 17, 2021
Selling a Business: Who Owns It?
Share This:<> Selling a Business: Who Owns It? Selling a business involves considering no small number of issues, some large, some small, some complicated, some not so much. But one question that few brokers – and even fewer buyers – ever ask is, “Who owns it?” Or, more generally, who
January 11, 2021
What’s My Business Worth? Part 3: The Income Method
Share This:<> What’s My Business Worth? Part 3: The Income Method “What’s my business worth?” This post is the final installment in a three-part series on valuing a business. The series was inspired first by an article I read that contained too many errors and misconceptions to be of much
January 4, 2021
What’s My Business Worth? Part 2: The Market Method
Share This:<> What’s My Business Worth? Part 2: The Market Method “What’s my business worth?” Last week, in Part 1 of this three part “What’s My Business Worth?” series – inspired by an article that I recently read – I discussed the Asset Approach of valuation. I mentioned that the
December 28, 2020
What’s My Business Worth? Part 1: The Asset Method
Share This:<> What’s My Business Worth? Part 1: The Asset Method “What’s my business worth?” We get that question all the time. And anybody expecting a more-detailed answer than, “It depends…” is likely to be disappointed. In the 20 years since I founded Worldwide Business Brokers, it has been our
December 20, 2020
Business Brokers: The Aftermath
Share This:<> Business Brokers: The Aftermath The Aftermath? What the heck does that mean? Well, when a business is sold, there are three separate aftermaths. The seller has one, the buyer has another and the broker has the third. The aftermath for the broker is something we go over in
December 14, 2020
Business Brokers: Tax Issues #2
Share This:<<>> Business Brokers: Tax Issues #2 Taxes. What, again?!? That’s right. Another riff. But this one is about a somewhat little known method designed to help our clients – the sellers of the businesses we represent – defer taxes on the gains they realize from their work building a
December 6, 2020
Business Brokers: Tax Issues in Sight
Share This:<<>> Business Brokers: Tax Issues in Sight Taxes. The bane of the business owner’s existence. As professional business brokers, we deal with the tax issue all the time. Every transaction we’re involved in – in fact, nearly every conversation we have with a business owner considering selling – turns
November 29, 2020
Advising Our Clients Pt. 3: What’s Selling?
Share This:<> Advising Our Clients Part 3: What’s Selling? What’s selling? We get that question all the time. We’ve gotten it with more frequency during the last year as the corona virus has spread through Europe and then the Americas. But we also get – and just as frequently –
November 22, 2020
Business Brokers: Advising Our Clients Pt. 2
Share This:<> Business Brokers: Advising Our Clients Part 2 Last week’s post – Part 1 of our discussion about business brokers advising our clients – dealt with financing issues, tax issues and knowing what – the business’ assets or the equity in the business – is being sold. In this
November 15, 2020
Business Brokers: Advising Our Clients
Share This:<> Business Brokers: Advising Our Clients As professional business brokers, advising our clients is the essence of what we do. But how we advise them and what topics we advise them on is not always clear. Every deal is different in structure and, as such, every deal entails its