Selling a Business

Say a business owner runs a $1.2 million pest control company. He opens his tax return, finds net profit of

Most owners negotiate the purchase price for weeks. Then they sign a purchase agreement with an allocation schedule buried near

Picture two pool companies in Montgomery County. Each one grosses $620,000 a year. Each one runs a couple of trucks

Your CPA’s valuation is not an asking price. That sounds obvious until an owner holds two documents side by side

Every roof you’ve installed in the last ten years is still on your books. Not on the balance sheet. Nowhere

Say a Fishtown commercial printing and signage company is under LOI. Revenue is $1.2 million, SDE (the owner’s total earnings

Say a business owner gets an offer she’s been waiting three years for. $1.5 million for a company doing $500,000

Pennsylvania doesn’t license electrical contractors. Neither does Delaware County. That job is left to whichever of the county’s 49 individual

Picture two general veterinary practices in Bucks County, each doing $1.5 million in revenue and $420,000 in SDE — seller’s

Say you own a commercial cleaning company doing $1.3 million in revenue and $340,000 in SDE (seller’s discretionary earnings, basically