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- Valuation (5)
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When the Music Stops
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Successful companies with competitive products or services and a well-developed economic model tend to get recognized in the marketplace. Sooner or later, someone will come knocking on the door with a deal that you have to consider, whether or not you’re prepared to sell out. As you move beyond the initial disposition / acquisition dance…
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A Qualitative Interview of the Number-Crunchers
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Interviewing a candidate for a job in your company can be particularly difficult if you and the applicant speak different languages. For the owners/presidents of many smaller companies, accountants are in a world all their own, employing a language known primarily to other accountants. How, then, can you assess their capacity to do their job,…
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De-Generating the Gap
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On the Friday before Christmas, Jenna Olds gave two weeks’ notice of her termination and left for a week’s vacation. My client, the president of a technology-based start-up company, was floored. Jenna was employee number two when she was hired in the fall of 2005, and as the Office Manager and Bookkeeper she was the…
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No-Fuss Budgeting
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Until last month, it had happened only twice in my 25 years of serving 233 companies as their senior financial manager. And last month it happened twice. Totally spontaneously, two of my clients were approached directly by legitimate prospective acquirers in their respective industries. Neither of these companies had been groomed for a sale, and…