Frequently Asked Questions

WHY SHOULD I CONTRACT A Business BROKER?

Business Brokers acquire the bazaar and the quickest aisle to accomplishing a bankrupt transaction. SO YOU CAN STAY FOCUSED ON RUNNING YOUR BUSINESS - This is important so your business stays assisting and marketable. Having a third affair complex allows you to accumulate an arm's breadth in the negotiations.

MARKETING AND ADVERTISING

Designing a business plan accurately targeted to the types of client that would be absorbed in the business is a key factor. Business brokers use abstracts bases of client affairs able associations, and investment groups. Ambition business through barter publications, absolute mail, and Internet sites accurately for business affairs may be acclimated to ability buyers. Advertising in newspapers both bounded and civic are about used.

QUALIFYING BUYERS

The business agent will focus on those affairs who are financially able and who are absolutely absorbed in the blazon of business.

PRESENTING THE BUSINESS

The able business agent is accomplished in administration negotiations. The agent aswell offers the agent accessibility of continuing to administer the business while the affairs action is underway.

MAINTAINING PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY

Business owners are acutely anxious about confidentiality. A able agent is accomplished at attention the acquaintance from the employees, suppliers, creditors, and barter of the business.

NEGOTIATING THE BUSINESS SALE TRANSACTION

The business agent will be a basic adviser during the auction transaction. Knowledgeable about negotiating price, terms, and added key aspects of the sale, the agent will adviser the agent anniversary footfall of the way. Able accord anatomy will abundantly affect the net bulk that the agent will end up befitting afterwards affairs the business.

HOW MUCH IS MY BUSINESS WORTH?

The amount of your aggregation depends on abounding factors such as: Who is affairs the business, what is the banknote flow, asset values, banking history, action of accessories and bounds of the business. Are there favorable charter terms, what is the competition, area and the economy? As you can see allegory your business and commensurable sales in your industry is imperative. Solutions Consultants Business Brokers can admonish you on the able appraisement action for your business based on all of these factors.

The bigger aberration you can accomplish is to over or beneath bulk your business!

It is Acute to do a third affair valuation. Not alone for you to apperceive the accurate bazaar amount of your business so you can bulk it right, but a lot of banking institutions assert on a business appraisal afore they will accede financing. In addition, businesses that acquire third affair valuations advertise added frequently at the allurement bulk than those that don't acquire one. It provides the client with the aplomb that the business has been analyzed and priced. Why not advertise my business myself? It is acutely difficult to advance your business while agreeable in the affairs process.

Most owners do not apperceive the time and amount complex in business their own business. They will generally absorb ashen hours alive with amateur buyers. In fact, because the business client does not acquire admission to a arrangement of able buyers, they generally end up affairs their businesses for abundant beneath than they could have. It is actual harder to advance acquaintance as able-bodied as accommodate a accord if the business client is alive anon with the buyer. Application a Agent can ensure the accomplished dollar.

WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO SELL?

The best time to advertise is at the businesses peak. Buyers put a lot of of their focus on the approaching prospects, if your business has been a abiding aerialist and they can see advance potential, the college the acquirement price.

WHY SHOULD I USE SOLUTIONS CONSULTANTS BUSINESS BROKERS AND THE SCBB TO SELL MY BUSINESS?

Solutions Consultants Business Brokers will advice you get the best amount for your business. We will save both buyers and Sellers money by alienated cher mistakes in the affairs process. Our Civic Affiliation with the SCBB arrangement enables us to advance our associate offices accepted to aid in affairs our listings. Solutions Consultants Business Brokers will advice you get the best amount for your business. We will save both buyers and Sellers money by alienated cher mistakes in the affairs process.

- Bottom Line, by application us to advertise your business you get:

- Maximum Exposure

- Confidentiality

- Able Buyers

- Advertising and Marketing

- Banking Guidance

- Negotiating Power

- Ability co-broker with our affiliates

- Experience Proven Results

WHAT ITEMS DO I NEED TO PREPARE IN ORDER TO SELL MY BUSINESS?

- Gather Documents for Evaluation:

- Three Years of Assets Statements or Tax Returns

- Accepted Antithesis Sheet

- Accepted Asset List with backup value

- Copy of Facilities Charter Agreement

- Organizational chart

We abetment you in putting calm a able business package. A able business agent is never the able in your business or the industry. That ability comes from the business owner. The agent is the business expert. Preparing a business amalgamation for your business requires that the client and the agent plan calm to actuate the strengths and weaknesses of a aggregation and how they could appulse the business of your business.

WHEN SHOULD I DEVELOP AN EXIT STRATEGY?

The eventually the better. The ideal time to advance an Avenue Action for your business is if you alpha or acquirement the business. However, industry statistics announce that 85% of all business owners do not acquire a authentic avenue action although, on boilerplate 75% of their net account is angry up in their business.

IS MY COMPANY READY FOR SALE?

The company's banking annal and operations acquire to be evaluated and analyzed to actuate the strengths and weaknesses of the company. Able planning will advice you abode and hopefully abbreviate any operational or banking weaknesses of the aggregation afore ablution the business appearance of the disposition process.

WHAT IS MY COMPANY WORTH?

The bazaar bulk ambit of your aggregation is estimated afterwards consulting with all of your aggregation associates (accountant, appraisal expert, M&A specialist) and evaluating all of your goals and objectives. Timing considerations, proposed transaction structure, industry altitude and lending bazaar altitude are all key elements to accede in ciphering the bazaar bulk ambit for your company.

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO SELL MY COMPANY?

The industry boilerplate for affairs a business is 6-12 months. The admeasurement of the transaction, the appraisement structure, and specific business action will anon affect how continued it will yield to advertise your company.

HOW DO I MAINTAIN CONFIDENTIALITY IN THE MARKETING PROCESS?

Confidentiality in ambidextrous with centralized cadre and alien sources is acerb encouraged and is analytical to accomplish a acknowledged transaction. For the Seller's protection, Solutions Consultants Business Brokers requires a Buyer's Acquaintance Agreement to be active by the abeyant client afore the absolution of the Business Memorandum.

HOW DO I PREPARE TO BUY A COMPANY SHOULD THAT BE MY INTEREST?

We will abetment you in free your accretion goals and objectives. Afore the accretion seek begins, it is important to about ascertain and ambition a specific industry, business size, advance an affiliation plan if applicable, acquire your banking purchasing ambit and analyze your costs options.

WILL SOLUTIONS CONSULTANTS BUSINESS BROKERS HELP ME ARRANGE FOR FINANCING?

Yes, we abetment Buyers in accepting transaction costs through our all-encompassing banking academy network. We admonition you on the array of transaction costs options that are accessible and abetment you in evaluating these options as they affect to and your specific abeyant business acquisition.

DOES SOLUTIONS CONSULTANTS BUSINESS BROKERS ASSIST IN STRATEGIC ACQUISITIONS?

Yes, we will codify with you a absolute accretion plan to ambition both individual and assorted accretion candidates. If you prefer, we will advice you abide bearding and advance acquaintance until the adapted time in the transaction.

WHAT IS A BUSINESS VALUATION?

A business appraisal is an appraisal of the amount of a business or of an absorption in a business.

Should the amount of a business acquire any accord to the amount in the marketplace?

A business appraisal should accede the bazaar amount that a client could analytic be accepted to pay, and that a agent could analytic be accepted to accept, if the business were apparent for auction on the accessible bazaar for a reasonable aeon of time, both client and agent getting in control of the pertinent facts, and neither getting beneath coercion to act.

WHY ARE VALUATIONS DONE?

A appraisal may be all-important to advertise a company, to buy a company, to advertise shares of a aggregation to key employees, to achieve estates, for annulment acreage settlements, allowance purposes or to artlessly accumulate abreast of the company's amount as advance takes place.

WHAT INFORMATION SHOULD BE USED TO COMPLETE A VALUATION?

Solutions Consultants Business Brokers uses proprietary advice for valuations such as tax allotment and accountant able banking statements for up to 5 budgetary years. We aswell absorb interviews with the arch and employees, tours of the business facility, reviews of chump lists, actual business assets, accepted operating and administration information, and added advice apropos business operations. Assay is aswell done to analyze the company's banking achievement to others aural the aforementioned industry.

WHAT IS DONE WITH ALL OF THIS BUSINESS INFORMATION?

The base of any appraisal should be the assay and about-face of business earnings, an appraisal of accepted business assets, and an assessment of the approaching of the business. The appraisal considers the chain of business income, bazaar competitiveness, industry growth, aggregation constancy and reputation, banking trends, administration depth, chump mix, the superior of the articles and casework offered, and the accepted agreeableness of the business.

WHAT ARE MORE IMPORTANT, BUSINESS EARNINGS OR BUSINESS ASSETS?

It is accurate that antithesis acquire to abutment the acquirement of business assets. It is aswell accurate that assets acquire to be accessible to serve as banking or even "psychological" collateral. A accepted award is that the mix of assets and antithesis will alter appreciably a part of businesses. This mix is again advised appropriately for that accurate business.

HOW ASSETS AND EARNINGS ARE BEST DISPLAYED?

In a lot of valuations it is all-important to reconstruct the tax aggressive assets account and antithesis area to affectation the advice as it would arise to a new owner.

For example, the assets account may charge to be adapted to bigger appearance the pre-tax antithesis that a business can generate. This is all-important back an assets account is able for tax purposes and in accepted will attack to lower taxable earnings. For example, a business may appearance a non-cash amount such as depreciation, in antithesis of what would be all-important for a reasonable backup fund. Also, an client may be accepting a bacon that is either too top or low for the plan that is getting performed. Both of these cases will crave adjustment. Another acclimation is usually appropriate for absorption costs back a new client will acquire a altered debt and disinterestedness anatomy than the accepted owner. There may aswell be added adjustments on amount items which are not necessarily important for business operations but advised important to the client as added allowances or compensation.

In addition, a company's antithesis area may affectation accessories that is absolutely or about absolutely depreciated, but that has a college fair bazaar value. The antithesis area may aswell affectation assertive assets such as authorization fees or absolute acreage at cost, but they may in fact acquire accepted in value. Conversely, there may aswell be different business assets that should be eliminated. These and added adjustments to a company's book amount of assets charge to be fabricated in adjustment to appearance the accepted fair bazaar value.

What are the Top 10 affidavit why businesses don't sell?

1. Priced too high.

2. No absolution for the price.

3. Business cannot be financed.

4. Poor almanac befitting (tax returns).

5. Not packaged correctly.

6. Charge to explain abounding amount of the aggregation in writing. Buyers wish to advantage their money.

7. Agreeableness (owner's albatross and hours appropriate to accomplish successfully).

8. Administration and agent not blockage afterwards the auction (family owned).

9. Out anachronous account and/or artefact (i.e., payphone business).

10. Too abundant alive basic required.

SOME ADDITIONAL POINTS TO CONSIDER:

Asking Bulk Acquire to be reasonable and fair to both agent and buyer.