Selling Your Business

Five Things Your Accountant May Not Have Told You, But a Business Buyer Will

By Ron Edmonds The majority of small business owners in the green industry do not have a particularly strong relationship with their outside accountants.  They usually look to them for tax return preparation, keeping out of tax trouble and helping them deal with it if they do find themselves in tax trouble.  In some cases, they get involved with tax planning, and that is often about it. There is so much more benefit that a business owner can get from a closer relationship with his or her accountant.  Accountants Toowong and many other experts will welcome the opportunity for a … Read more

Webinar March 27, 2012 – How to Sell Your Business

Tips for Lawn & Landscape Business Owners You are invited to join Ron Edmonds and the team from The Principium Group for a webinar presentation on How to Sell Your Business.  Ron Edmonds will present important issues for lawn and landscape business owners to understand, including: Deciding to Sell Your Business Preparing Your Business for Sale How will the Market Value Your Business Who Will Buy Your Business Choosing Advisors:  Lawyers, Brokers and Others Avoiding Mistakes There will be time reserved to answer your questions Title: How to Sell Your Business – Tips for Lawn and Land Landscape Business Owners Date: Tuesday, … Read more

Why Are You Selling Your Business?

One of the things we always do when we take on a new client is to try to understand why they are thinking about selling their business. This is important for a whole host of reasons. From a business point of view, it helps us to understand how serious they are about selling.  It also helps us position the business for sale. Prospective buyers usually want to have a very good understanding of why a business owner is selling, too.  Are they selling because they see some unavoidable business downturn on the horizon?  Are they selling because business is just … Read more

BizBuySell.com Reports Increasing Business-For-Sale Transactions in 2011

BizBuySell’s annual year-end report finds more small businesses were sold in 2011 than in 2010, spurred by slightly decreased valuations, improved business performance, and slow improvement in capital access. San Francisco, CA – January 4, 2012 — BizBuySell.com, the Internet’s largest marketplace for buying or selling a small business, today released its Full-Year and Fourth Quarter 2011 Insight Report on business succession trends. The report, which aggregates business for sale transaction data provided by participating business brokers, shows that small business sales were up slightly in 2011. This continues a trend of gradual year-over-year growth that began at the beginning … Read more

Ron Edmonds on Exit Planning from National Green Centre

The following video was recorded during a presentation by Ron Edmonds of The Principium Group on Exit Planning for Green Industry Business Owners at the National Green Centre trade show in Kansas City on January 9, 2012.