6 Tips For Planning Your Second Career
1. What kind of legacy do you want
2. Think about what your financial needs and wants are for you and your family. Discuss the sale of the business with your significant others in your life.
3. Make an assessment of your business. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the business. What are the opportunities for a new owner? What kind of financial records are available for the business.
4. Research the Marketplace. What businesses have sold recently and what ingredients would make your business sell in the current market.
5. Connect with professionals. Discuss your ideas with an accountant, attorney, banker, and business broker. Assemble a team so that all the aspects of selling your business can work synergistically to the same goal.
6. Make a thoughtful decision to proceed with all of the facts in hand.
Sunbelt Business Brokers works with individual, strategic, private equity groups, and corporate buyers in their search for appropriate businesses to purchase. We seek to help our customers enter new markets, enhance their market position, or achieve growth through acquisition of both private and publicly held companies. Our transaction team works cooperatively with buyers in identifying acquisition objectives based on personal and/or business growth needs.
Working on a retainer basis, we will conduct a targeted acquisition search based on solid market and industry analysis, identifying and approaching possible candidates within the targeted search range to determine their interest in divesting or selling their business interests.
Once an appropriate acquisition candidate has been identified, we:
- Assist in determining realistic pricing structure of the acquisition candidate.
- Assist in making an offer.
- Negotiate the offer and formulate a favorable deal structure package.
- Assist in conducting comprehensive due diligence of the acquisition candidate.
- Orchestrate a solid transaction agreement favorable to all involved parties.
- Assist with arrangement of financing.
- Arrange for timely execution of closing documents and smooth transition.
Whether your goal is expansion of present holdings, addition of greater customer base, or entrance into new industry or geographic markets, our team will make the acquisition as smooth as possible.
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Business Valuation
An accurate valuation of your business is one of the most important things when considering the sale, purchase, or partner share repurchase of a company. Determining a precise value requires a vast range of technical and business proficiencies combined with the use of accredited valuation techniques as well as a thorough understand of today's markets, and corporate finance.
Sunbelt Business Brokers feel an appraisal of your business is the best way to start the process of selling, buying, or analyzing opportunities for your company's future. Sunbelt provides comprehensive valuation packages to meet all needs. Our professional partners follow standard guidelines established by the American Society of Appraisers and hold the highest industry designations, making them experts in the valuation field. The team has spent countless hours compiling comparisons for thousands of industries giving them the most comprehensive and comparable transaction databases. They complete a business valuation report tailored to specific business, and financial needs. Sunbelt Business Brokers offer the following Valuation report options:
Summary Report Appraisal
The summary appraisal serves as an evaluation for many of the national
banks for SBA loans and litigation purposes. This third party evaluation
is performed by a privately owned financial advisory firm specializing
in business valuations, fairness opinions and litigation support. The
third party is ASA-accredited appraiser. The report utilizes
9-10 evaluation methodologies plus a nationwide comparison of
businesses sold in the same industry. (25-35 pages) Requires 2-3 weeks
to complete.
This is a 15-20 page report that uses market comparables from like-businesses that have sold locally and nationally. We use the knowledge of experienced brokers who have over 20 years of experience working with buyers and sellers. This market evaluation helps owners or potential buyers determine a market price for a business. This evaluation takes 1-2 weeks to complete.
Who NEEDS An Appraisal?
Lenders need a Certified Machinery & Equipment Appraisal in support of loan decisions. In fact, SBA's & SOP's require a "qualified" appraisal.
CPAs need a Certified Machinery & Equipment Appraisal pursuant to AICPA's Standards of Valuation #1 in addition to the Pension Protection Act of 2006 and the Council of Foundations. Attorneys need a Certified Machinery & Equipment Appraisal for divorce, dissolutions and litigation to substantiate accurate and realistic values that will withstand IRS and Court scrutiny.
Business Owners need a Certified Machinery & Equipment Appraisal for insurable value, selling, financing, buying, expansion, partnership dissolution, property taxes, Pension Protection Act of 2006, and Converting from a C Corp to S Corp.
The Certified Machinery & Equipment Appraisers (CMEA) at Sunbelt Business Brokers are widely known as a respected industry leader. Backed by experience and certification, our certified appraisals are prepared according to the ethics and reporting mandated by the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), promulgated by Congress and the Appraisal Foundation. It is the leading authoritative source for appraisals.
The Certified professionals at Sunbelt deliver a comprehensive and detailed Certified Equipment Appraisal Report that is accurate, irrefutable, defensible, and descriptive. Our Certified Appraisal Report include but is not limited to market conditions, economic conditions, photographs, model and serial numbers, and other descriptive information that will withstand scrutiny. Our assignment of value is based on extensive research, personal inspection, contact with manufacturers and suppliers to determine what the machinery and equipment is really worth.
If you can answer "YES" to any of the following business situations, you absolutely need an independent third party appraisal!
Buy / Sell Agreements Business Valuations Loans / Refinancing
Leases Property Taxes Insurable Value
Trust / Estate Planning Gift Planning Divorce Settlement
Partnership Dissolution Converting From C to S Corp 1031 Exchanges
Foreclosure Bankruptcy Cost Segregation
Sarbanes Oxley FASB 141 / 142 Retirement Planning
Mergers & Acquisitions Pension Protection Act