When you decide to buy a business you need to check to see if the information that was provided to you is accurate. The investigation of the sellers accounting and other records is (more…)

You are trying to buy a business and want to keep as much cash as possible for the business.  As a result, you want to avoid using professional advisers in order to save money.  You (more…)

If you think that you found the right business you still have to evaluate the business itself.  This article is the third in a series of articles of suggestions on how to analyze a company.  You need to look at (more…)

Yesterday I wrote about items to look at when you are in either due diligence or looking a little more closely at a business for sale and are deciding if you should continue to the next step.  Other items to look at in (more…)

When you buy an existing business you are buying the employees, the customer base, products and/or services.  If you find a business for sale, you need to consider the following: (more…)

You find a business that appeals to you and now you need to do some preliminary review of the financial statements to see if you want to continue to the next step.  The first thing that you should do is some high (more…)