Buyouts – Success for Owners, Management, PEGs, Families, ESOPs, and Mergers and Acquisitions

A must-have book for business owners, key employees, and their advisors who need to be aware of the full spectrum of succession options, Buyouts provides objectives, advice, steps, and a host of examples on the full spectrum of insider-led buyouts. A roadmap for CPAs, it presents the parameters for many of the major industry segments, techniques for managing risk, providing retention and performance incentives for key personnel and insights into getting deals financed.

• Features advice and examples of insider led buyouts
• Essential guidance on succession options for business owners, key employees, and their advisors
• The 411 on selling your company for a fair price, maintaining control over the process, and realizing lifelong goals

Transition planning is becoming a hot business topic as millions of business owners head into retirement. The fact is that only a limited number of privately held companies will be successfully sold to third parties. A roadmap for CPAs, Buyouts presents the parameters for many of the major industry segments, techniques for managing risk, providing retention and performance incentives for key personnel, as well as insights into getting deals financed.

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Estate Planning for the Blended Family

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Mergers & Acquisitions: An Insider’s Guide to the Purchase and Sale of Middle Market Business Interests

The first book on Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) to authoritatively convey the unique issues and circumstances of Middle-Market M&As-those companies valued between 5 million and 300 million with sales of 6 million to 600 million – Mergers & Acquisitions: An Insiders Guide to the Purchase and Sale of Middle Market Business Interests addresses the many challenges, pitfalls, and difficulties inherent in transactions involving Middle Market businesses

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Mergers & Acquisitions from A to Z

Best Practices for Structuring Profitable Deals During Turbulent Markets * Effective Ways to Raise the Capital Needed to Get Deals Done * New Due Diligence Rules and Strategies in the Age of Sarbanes-Oxley * Guidelines for Keeping Deals On Track and Managing Post Closing Challenges * Valuable Tools, Checklists, and Sample Forms

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Built to Sell

If you’re like most business owners, you started a company because you thought it would give you freedom—to do what you want, work on your own schedule, make the kind of money you deserve and eventually retire on the fruits of your labor.

Unfortunately, according to John Warrillow, most owners find that stepping out of the picture is extremely difficult because they’ve built a business that relies too heavily on their personal involvement. Without them, their company—no matter how big or profitable—is essentially worthless. Luckily, there are steps you can take—no matter what stage your business is in—to create a valuable, sellable company that can grow and thrive without you.

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Business Exit Planning: Options, Value Enhancement, and Transaction Management for Business Owners

For many business owners, cashing out of a business is a lifelong dream. For some, exiting a business can be a nightmare. Business Exit Planning: Options, Value Enhancement, and Transaction Management for Business Owners provide a comprehensive view of what every business owner needs to know to plan and execute a business exit. The book

• Includes 30 relevant mini-case studies on business exit planning and transaction management, as well as a glossary of frequently used technical terms
• Details options for those owners who no longer want to be active in the business, as well as for those who want to remain invested
• Covers a wide range of topics related to business exit planning and transaction management, including IPO, MBO, refinancing, ESOPs, building an exit team, business plan and valuation, due diligence, and estate planning

Regardless of whether a business owner seeks an immediate exit or a staged exit over time, Business Exit Planning provides a comprehensive strategy and roadmap to define exit-related objectives.

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The Business Reference Guide

Now in its 25th year, the 2015 Business Reference Guide is the essential guide to pricing businesses.

With up-to-date rules of thumb and pricing details on 700 types of businesses, this guide is a must-have for transaction brokers, accountants, attorneys, business appraisers, banks, business-lending institutions, professional advisors—anyone involved with privately owned business.

Now available online, users enjoy all the data they depend on in the book with the additional benefit of keyword searching, personalized printing, continual updates throughout the year, and more!

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Business Valuations for Dummies

This book is filled with expert guidance that business owners, managers at all levels, investors, and students can use when determining the value of a business. It contains a solid framework for valuation, including advice on analyzing historical performance, evaluating assets and income value, understanding a company’s financial statements, estimating the cost of capital, business valuation models, and how to apply those models to different types of businesses. Co-authored by James Bates, MBA, CEPA a member of the Exit Planning Institute.

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The Market Value Approach

The Market Value Approach – Is must reading for any business advisor who performs or uses business valuations. The Market Approach to Valuing Businesses will show you how to successfully reach a fair and reasonable agreement on value. Whether you’re buying, selling, or valuing a business, the market approach is the most widely accepted method of determining the value of a business or partnership. This book is another tremendous valuation resource written by Shannon Pratt, the grandfather of business valuation. Be sure to check out the workbook that accompanies this book. A classic that keeps getting better with each new edition.

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Middle Market M & A: Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting

In-depth coverage of the middle market in a single volume—based on the body of knowledge of the Certified M&A Advisor® credential program

If you own, operate, or advise a middle market company, what does this mean for you and your clients when thinking about shareholder liquidity, selling or buying a business? And how can you improve the odds of getting a deal done?

A vital tool for all business professionals interested in understanding mergers, acquisitions, exits and strategic transactions for middle market companies, Middle Market M&A: A Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting is a must-read for investment bankers; M&A intermediaries and specialist; CPA’s and accountants; valuation experts; deal and transaction attorneys; wealth managers and investors; corporate development leaders; consultants and advisors; lenders; and CEOs, CFOs and board members.

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Million Dollar Consulting Tool Kit

Million Dollar Consulting Tool Kit is perfect for business brokers and other deal people. This practical toolbox provides specific checklists, guidelines, templates, and actual examples for each and every step of the consulting process. It covers marketing, sales, meetings, implementation, follow-up, invoicing, practice management, insurance, equipment, subcontracting, and scores of other elements. It belongs in every professional advisor’s library.

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Private Capital Markets 2nd Edition

This theoretical and practical guide gives readers important insights into the workings of the private capital markets so that they can make sound investment and financing decisions.

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Selling Your Business to Your Employees

Selling Your Business to Your Employees: Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) & Worker-Owned Cooperatives is an easy-to-understand guide for owners of small and medium-sized businesses interested in exploring selling to employees as an exit strategy. Learn how employee ownership can:

• Allow you to sell some or all of your ownership stake while taking advantage of significant tax breaks for you and the company.
• Position the company for future growth, enhanced productivity and performance, while also rewarding the people that helped build the business.
• Provide you with the flexibility of maintaining an ongoing role in the business if desired.

To order, contact the Ohio Employee Ownership Center at 330-672-3028

Selling to an ESOP – 9th Edition

Selling to an ESOP – 8th Edition is a comprehensive guide for owners, managers, and advisors of closely held companies considering setting up an ESOP in order to buy part or all of the stock of the owner(s). The first half of the book describes how ESOps work and discusses basic considerations for selling to an ESOP, ranging from valuation to financing. The second half of the book focuses on the tax-deferred Section 1042 “rollover” that allows selling shareholder(s) in closely held companies to indefinitely defer capital gains taxation on the proceeds from the sale to an ESOP. The 8th edition has been revised to tighten up the organization of the book and to reflect recent changes in law and practice

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The Speed of Trust

According to Stephen MR Covey, trust is one of the essential elements of business, and the ability to create, preserve and restore trust has become one of the most important skills today, inside and outside the office. In the book The Speed of Trust, Covey gives readers all the key tools to cultivating trust in their relationships, while offering up the wisdom of other great business leaders on the topic.

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Valuing a Business, 4th Edition

For nearly two decades, and through three previous editions, Valuing a Business has provided trusted, complete business valuation for experienced business valuation analysts, beginning analysts and students, and all professionals needing complete valuation information. Its clear, concise explanations of valuation methods and conclusions have made it the classic text against which all other valuation books are measured.

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The Master Plan: Exit Strategy For Successful Business Owners

The Master Plan offers timeless wisdom, practical advice and enduring strategy to meet the needs and challenges of a new generation of business owner, who want to be prepared to exit their businesses.

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Every Family’s Business: 12 Common Sense Questions to Protect Your Wealth

Every Family’s Business challenges the idea that successful family businesses must keep family issues and business issues separate. Tom believes this separation is impossible and that most family businesses are set up from the beginning to fail because they attempt it.

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