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Selling a Business – Avoiding an own goal in due diligence – Part 4
How secure are your forecast gross margins? In the last blog I dealt with the question of Employee claims. Another hard lot of questions you will have to answer will be to do with your historical and forecast gross margins. This is based upon an actual case. The...
7 reasons why your business is not attracting customers
Are you wondering why you are not attracting and engaging customers as well as you might? Here are seven common reasons why many businesses fail to sell and what you can do to create more successful results. You’re Selling In The Wrong Place If you have to compete...
5 Ways to Get Past the GateKeeper
New recruits making sales via ‘cold’ sales calls often struggle to take their generic sales training and put it into practice. If they are not trained professionally on how to make the pitch, they will lose calls and burn leads. Worse, they often make their company...
Selling a Business – Avoiding an own goal in due diligence – Part 3
Any troubling employee issues? In the last blog I dealt with the question of Intellectual Property. Another hard lot of questions you will have to answer will be to do with your Employees. You have maintained good employee records and everyone has signed an Employment...
What makes for a good Financial Model? Part 2
In part one of this blog, I introduced financial modelling and how it could help your business. Now I move on to the important qualities of a good financial model. So, what makes for a good Financial Model? No two financial models can be exactly alike, and one size...
Selling a Business – Avoiding an own goal in due diligence – Part 2
How secure is your intellectual property? In the last blog I dealt with the tricky question of contracts and “change of control clauses”. Another hard lot of questions you will have to answer will be to do with your Intellectual Property. You have searched for all...
What is Financial Modelling and how can it help my business? Part 1
What is Financial Modelling? -- Business owners have posed this question to me often. While there can be several complicated definitions, simply put, it is the practice of projecting a business’s operating and financial results. Financial modelling allows you to see...
Selling your business – The impact of customer contracts
Having built up your business over many years you have finally made the big step and decided it’s time to hang up your boots. You have a buyer and an offer has been made and accepted and now the due diligence process is under way. You are becoming increasingly...
Resolving Directors’ disputes
As business advisers working with MDs we are used to solving business problems and recommending courses of action across the range of business disciplines. Recently we have been involved in a number of cases where we have sought to resolve disputes between Directors...
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