How to Buy and/or Sell a Small Business for Maximum Profit: A Step-by-Step Guide

Product Description: This book provides a road map of suggestions, insights and techniques for both buyers and sellers. It covers the entire selling process step-by-step - from making the decision of when to sell or buy, through determining how to market the company, to understanding the various legal & financial documents involved in a sale, and on to closing the deal and handling the transition afterwards. This book is geared toward the novice entrepreneur who wants to buy or sell a small business. Topics covered include: finding and evaluating a business to buy and/or sell, how to value a business, raising the necessary capital, evaluating a business financial condition using discounted cash flow, excess earnings, asset value, and income capitalization, brokers, leveraged buyouts, letters of intent, legal and tax concerns and contracts.

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This book provides a road map of suggestions, insights and techniques for both buyers and sellers. It covers the entire selling process step-by-step - from making the decision of when to sell or buy, through determining how to market the company, to understanding the various legal & financial documents involved in a sale, and on to closing the deal and handling the transition afterwards. This book is geared toward the novice entrepreneur who wants to buy or sell a small business. Topics covered include: finding and evaluating a business to buy and/or sell, how to value a business, raising the necessary capital, evaluating a business financial condition using discounted cash flow, excess earnings, asset value, and income capitalization, brokers, leveraged buyouts, letters of intent, legal and tax concerns and contracts.

288 pages, Paperback
Published August 2006
ISBN: 0910627533
ISBN-13: 9780910627535