Tag Archives: Accounting

9 Lessons Learned About Selling A Business

When selling your business, it pays to learn lessons from others.  Most business owners will not get a second chance to do it well, and it is such an important process for your employees, your customers, and your own bank account that you want to… Continue reading

Quality of Earnings in Due Diligence: What You Need to Know

As many sellers do not sell businesses frequently, I like to write about various parts of the transaction process that may be helpful for sellers to understand.   One of the most important steps is when a buyer performs a “Quality of Earnings” review of… Continue reading

Ideal business financing for growing, profitable companies in 100 posts or less?

“Teach what you want to learn” is the theme with which I started this blog in April 2012.  Since then, I have written 100 posts — which means I’ve learned for myself and shared what I’ve learned under several themes: Business financing and venture capital… Continue reading

Accounting & Reporting Pays Off

Accounting should not drive anything about a company, but accounting also should not be forgotten at the side of the road. Many companies choose, correctly, not to focus much attention on proper accounting and reporting — until they first have a real, sustainable business.  Later,… Continue reading

Financial Audit Helpful for Financing, Funding, and Selling Your Business

My first financial audit was intimidating.  My company, Student Advantage, was preparing for its IPO in 1999 and the audit firm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, needed to audit all of the material entities that had merged with Student Advantage during the prior few years.  My little start-up company,… Continue reading

Kissing a Lot of Frogs: Smaller Companies Must Work to Find Investment Financing

Competitive advantages can both increase and decrease as a business gets larger.  One thing that gets easier for larger companies is attracting business investment and financing.  The chart below from John Paglia at the Pepperdine Business School demonstrates the shortage in capital and investment sources… Continue reading

The Best Business Deals Die Three Times: Wisdom from Buying & Selling Businesses

Business Deal Reality Check “The best business deals die three times,” is sometimes said with the reverence of having been spoken by a person of great wisdom.  This week, I spent days in full-time discussions with a company where we are far along in the… Continue reading

Bad Accounting is Bad Business and Bad for Your Personal Credibility

Don’t Like Accounting? You will never be an integral participant of a community when you do not know the language of the community.  Accounting is the language of business.  If you are in business, you have a responsibility to become competent and conversational in accounting.… Continue reading