Valuing Your Business : Strategies to Maximize the Sale Price
Many entrepreneurs mistakenly believe that it is easy to sell a business. Unfortunately, the skills used to start or grow a business are not necessarily the skills that would allow you to sell a business successfully. The key to receiving top dollar for your business lies in knowing the true value of the business, making the right decisions, and laying the groundwork for a lucrative sale—even before that business is officially on the market.In Valuing Your Business: Strategies to Maximize the Sale Price, author and corporate attorney Frederick Lipman provides you with a comprehensive guide to valuing and selling your business—from strategically positioning your company's assets to finalizing the perfect deal. Whether you're the owner of a small to middle-market business or an accountant, investment banker, or attorney, this timely resource offers situation-specific advice and real-world guidance that will help you accurately determine and maximize the value of any business.traightforward and easy to read, Valuing Your Business leads you—from beginning to end—through the entire process of enhancing the value of your business and conducting its sale smoothly and profitably. You'll discover how to:Establish the true value of your business, including intellectual propertyMarket your business to prospective buyers without alarming staff, suppliers, competitors, and the mediaNegotiate the deal properlyStructure the transaction to avoid paying exorbitant taxesAvoid potential "deal-killers" right from the startAnd much moreValuing Your Business also includes important information on how to assemble a professional team of investment bankers and attorneys, as well as documentation on two possible alternatives to selling your business—leveraged recapitalization and going public. Fact-filled appendixes round out the discussion of the entire process by providing detailed examples from actual sales and samples of key documents.Selling your business should be a profitable, crowning moment of achievement. Yet without the proper knowledge, it can be a slow and difficult road loaded with potential pitfalls. For anyone selling or contemplating selling a business, Valuing Your Business is the only book you'll need to succeed.