Buying and Selling Businesses: Including Forms, Formulas, and Industry Secrets

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Must reading for business sellers, buyers, and the professionals who serve them

The secret of success in any business venture is in the details.

In Buying and Selling Businesses, a remarkably successful business consultant supplies you with all the details you'll need to expand your professional practice into this booming market. Bill Bumstead covers everything from business valuation to closing the deal and gives you lots of tips on marketing your services, dealing with buyers and sellers, and avoiding the industry's many pitfalls. This indispensable guide:

Provides practical strategies for marketing intermediary services to buyers and sellers of businesses
Shows you how to combine the business of buying with the business of selling
Supplies numerous sample checklists and forms
Helps you work effectively with buyers and sellers
Includes an extensive glossary and an industry resource list.

M&A mania is back! U.S. business sales are booming once again—some say annual volume now exceeds $400 billion. With the majority of these sales involving businesses priced below $1 million, opportunities abound for professionals who want to expand their practices to intermediary services for buyers and sellers of businesses. But if you're going to enter this hyperactive market, you can't afford to learn by trial and error. You need reliable, up-to-date information on how to apply your skills to this highly specialized field.

Buying and Selling Businesses takes the guesswork out of buying, selling, and valuing businesses. Drawing on highly developed skills and decades of practical experience, author William W. Bumstead explains every detail of every stage in the process—from arriving at an asking price to matching buyers to businesses, from negotiating a purchase agreement to closing the deal. He offers countless tips on marketing intermediary services to business buyers and sellers; packaging businesses for the selling process; ethical, legal, and confidentiality issues; and the personal and professional traits that make for success in the field.

He also provides:

A special section on business valuation by master valuer George D. Abraham
Numerous checklists, forms, form letters, and telephone scripts for marketing intermediary services
Invaluable tips on avoiding pitfalls in the industry
Information on potential certification and licensing of intermediaries
An extensive professional glossary and industry resource list.

For consultants, intermediaries, attorneys, CPAs, realtors, and other professionals, Buying and Selling Businesses is an indispensable guide and introduction to the industry. It will remain a helpful and much-thumbed reference for years to come. It is also an important resource for anyone interested in buying or selling a business who needs to understand the kinds of services that professionals can provide as well as the processes involved in the sale or purchase of a business.

Customer Reviews:

Not For MBA's or Finance Professionals.......2007-01-30

If you have an MBA from a program worth anything, you could totally skip this book. And if you don't have an MBA, do not look for this book to give you any technical skills anyway. This books does, however, serve as a pretty good checklist of best practices in managing and marketing your business and a checklist of things to avoid. To that end, this book's title should read something like "Top 10 ways to..." or some other elementary name and should cost about $10.

This is definitely not a reference or text book or technical guide as the price suggests, and only confirmed my belief that this industry is not that complicated at all for those with a top MBA or those who have any knowledge of investment banking, venture capital, or any subset of elementary valuation skills.

I guess because of the high number of certifications touted by the author and the industry associations, I bought into that fact that this industry somehow may require more technical skills than what is tought in a basic MBA finance or valuation course or more soft skills than any other entreprenuer needs. But I was wrong. This industry just seems to require, based on this book, a first level MBA finance course (reading financial statements, calculating relevant cashflows by undertanding and crosswalking net income to free cash flow, and discounting at the appropriate rate) and general entreprenuerial skills.

For non-MBA's I would recommend buying specific books covering the two subjects in depth rather than one that barely touches on the surface of each.

For my fellow MBA's and for those who've studied finance and entreprenuership in depth, I would recommend thumbing through only the 10 or 20 pages in the book that include checklists and forms just to validate that you are headed in the right direction. These 10 or 20 pages are not worth $100, so buy it used for as cheap as possible.

My comments of Mr. Bumstead's book.......2001-07-17

Having been in the business brokerage industry for 14 years, it was very refreshing to read someone who has a clear picture of what a broker should do, and how to do it. Also, the importance of an appraisal was made perfectly obvious. As a matter of fact since I learned the necessity of an appraisal in order complete a rational transaction, I will not accept a listing assignment with my client unless and until an appraisal is completed and they agree to offer their business at the appraised value. If they are unwilling to work with me in this manner, I wish them luck and I go to the next seller. And I offer them the names of several other brokers who will do it the seller's way. I certainly won't.

Using this simple procedure results in my selling 4 out of 5 of every listing I get. I don't waste weeks and months, as do other brokers, trying to sell something that is over priced and won't sell at the price the seller thinks it is worth. Why all of the brokers I know use this old fashioned outdated and time wasting procedure, I cannot understand. What they all do is to ask the seller what he/she wants, and then hurry up to sign the listing. When they have 20 of these kinds of listings, they are lucky if they sell a few and it is no wonder that a score of one sale for every 4-6 listings is the norm for the business brokerage industry. Thank you Mr. Bumstead for saving me weeks of wasted time and money and for allowing me to concentrate my valuable time with sellers who understand the logic of a fair market appraisal before going to the market place with their business. It is the only way to go. Without this simple concept from Bumstead, I would not be the successful and happy business brokerage consultant I am today.

Buying and Selling Businesses.......2001-07-11

I spent a career as a banker and during that time I saw many people attempt to enter and exit business ownership. In doing so, most of these people contacted a real estate or business broker for guidance. Unfortunately the majority of the buyers and sellers encounter brokers who know little more than they do about such transactions. This book gives everyone involved in the transaction the guidance they need. It should be used as the Bible in business transfer transactions and every business owner should refer to it regularly as a guide for planning for that eventual exit.

An Outstanding Book.......2001-07-11

A well written and professional work, valuable to the novice and professional alike. I found particularly useful the chapter on "Finding Buyers and Sellers". I can see already how this information will increase my income this year.

Excellent Book!.......2001-07-11

I have been in the industry as a professional for several years and was looking for something to use as a practical guide for my office. This book has served the purpose very well. I have also heard Mr. Bumstead speak to an industry meeting where he was received very well. The purchase of this book was money well spent!

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The field of astrophysics is in the midst of a technologically driven renaissance, as fundamental discoveries are being made with astonishing frequency. In the last decade, new detectors in space, on earth, and deep underground have, when coupled with the computational power of modern computers, revolutionized our knowledge and understanding of the astronomical world. This is a great time for a student of any age to become acquainted with the remarkable universe in which we live. This volume is a collection of essays, originally presented orally to a diverse group of students and professionals, which reveal the most fertile areas for future study of astronomy and astrophysics. The emphasis of this work is on the clear description of the current state of our knowledge as a preparation for the future unraveling of the mysteries of the universe that appear today as most fundamental and most amenable to solution.

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Good book on a wealth of topics.......1999-12-14

This book provides a great amount of information on a wide variety of hot topics in contemporary astronomy, such as cosmology, AGNs, GRBs, and dark matter. My only complaint is that the material does tend to slant towards extragalactic astronomy. However, otherwise the material is extremely useful for someone looking for fresh material to work on. The references also provided within are great. The reading level is also easy, and is probably similar to Scientific American or Sky & Telescope.

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As far as I have been able to see with cross-referencing and my own checks and double-checks, the information in this publication is accurate. The layman ought be able to understand it with minimal effort. Very readable.

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Get Weaving........2000-05-01

Modern Block Printed Textiles is a small publication dealing with successful exponents of this method of printing textiles in the United Kingdom and the United States, in the fist half of the 20th century. Although the technique is simple, Powers' book and the designs themselves amply display the artistic and creative results achieved. There are plenty of quality reproductions to illustrate the text, which is a brief but facsinating introduction to and record of the works of these textile designers.

Powers' focus is the social scene of the times, that made a 'kitchen-table' craft a highly successful expression of sophisticated artistic talent. Textile designers very often remain anonymous, probably because of the 'craft' associations and because many of these designers were women. Importantly Powers indentifies and has made some significant art history available for the art/craft scene of these times. Interestingly enough, Powers has been able to interview some of the artists from the 30s, 40s and 50s, often still practicing, at the time of the preparation of this book, which adds to the relevance of textile block printing (and any other craft) right now. This is important for contempory artists who feel that artistic and creative expression have roles in enhancing the quality of everyday life for everyone. This book will widen the perspectives of artists interested in such work, and these designers are excellent role models.

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ABOUT THE BOOK:For some people the theory of evolution or Darwinism has only scientific connotations, with seemingly no direct implication in their daily lives. This is, of course, a common misunderstanding. Far beyond just being an issue within the framework of the biological sciences, the theory of evolution constitutes the underpinning of a deceptive philosophy that has held sway over a large number of people: Materialism. Materialist philosophy, which accepts only the existence of matter and presupposes man to be "a heap of matter", asserts that he is no more than an animal, with "conflict" the sole rule of his existence. Traces of this philosophy, which has a lot to answer as regards man-made disasters of the last two centuries, can be found in every ideology that perceives differences among people as a "reason for conflict". The theory of evolution, or Darwinism, comes in handy at this point by completing the jigsaw puzzle. It provides the myth that materialism is a scientific idea. However, that basis is rotten. Modern scientific discoveries reveal over and over again that the popular belief associating Darwinism with science is false. Scientific evidence refutes Darwinism comprehensively and reveals that the origin of our existence is not evolution but intelligent design, i.e., creation. God has created the universe, all living things and man.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:The author Harun Yahya studied arts at Istanbul's Mimar Sinan University and philosophy at Istanbul University.He has published many books on faith-related and scientific issues. Some of the books of the author have been translated into more than 20 languages. His books appeal to all people, Muslims and non- Muslims alike, regardless of their age, race, and nationality, as they center around one goal: to open the readers' mind by encouraging them to think about some critical issues such as the existence of God and to display the decrepit foundations and perverted works of godless systems.

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