70-80% of businesses never sell.
WE’RE HERE TO HELP
We maximize the value of your company and ensure you’re financially
and emotionally prepared for the second half of life.
you need to make a successful exit.
We maximize the value of your company and ensure you’re financially
and emotionally prepared for the second half of life.
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We determine your company’s valuation on a quarterly basis while also creating a scorecard so you know where you stand and how we’re progressing based your key performance indicators. Get Started Now
We help you close the gap between your business and your personal finances. Includes the creation of a personal financial plan, gap analysis, and business assessment.
What makes your business the most profit? We meet with you monthly to help you capitalize on your strengths and identify inefficiencies.
We create a formal roadmap. Includes informal business valuation scorecard, attractiveness and readiness score, value driver planning and three legs of the stool – personal, financial and business. Your strategy for a successful exit.
Test your most expensive asset – new hires, management and key persons. Helps you capitalize on your employee’s strengths and natural aptitudes, defines role and responsibilities, reduces internal friction, and is a tool to design meaningful compensation plans.
We help you reward your most valuable employees in a meaningful way to accelerate productivity leading to increased enterprise value and goal alignment.
Exit Advisors identified with laser-like focus our company’s areas of strength and weakness and drilled down into those areas where we could improve. In the process they helped me grow my bottom line and build value in our company – my family’s largest asset. Thanks to the valued advice of this team and the systems they put in place, my family and I are now prepared personally and financially to transition the business when the right time comes. In addition to being experts in building and maximizing business value, Exit Advisors stands out in their emphasis on the often neglected area of personal planning, specifically focusing on our lives after business.
Fellow business owners, let’s be honest. We fear our bankers.
On a daily basis, we may give them little thought. When time comes to tell them we’re planning to exit our businesses, or when we need money, however, we may experience feelings ranging from mild anxiety to outright panic.
Why? We’ve been conditioned to believe that bankers say “no” far more often than they say yes. That may or may not be true but bankers make money by saying yes.
Minimizing Tax Exposure
You and your advisors should begin any discussion about minimizing your tax exposure with a review of your current business income tax status. From there, your CPA or CFO should be able to prepare an initial estimate of the company’s and your income tax liability.
You should then review what you are currently doing to reduce income tax liability. One of the purposes of ongoing tax planning is to avoid extreme peaks or valleys in corporate taxable income.
In an ideal world, every seller of a privately-held company would leave the closing table with enough cash to enjoy the “golden years.” But we live in the real world and unless your company is worth well in excess of $10 million and you find a buyer who is willing and able to pay all cash, you may receive part of the consideration for your company in a form other than cash. If you transfer your company to an insider (co-owner,
In a strong Merger & Acquisition (M&A) market, buyers compare the relative strength of your company’s value drivers to those of your competitors. In today’s M&A market, however, buyers want companies that possess all of the characteristics of a well-run business. Additionally, tighter credit forces buyers to use more of their own capital to buy businesses so they look for acquisitions that carry minimal business risk. Companies with strong value drivers in place carry less risk.
Whether you plan to grow or go, let us help you poise your business
for success. Schedule a complimentary meeting to learn more about
how Exit Advisors can maximize the value of your business.