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Business Valuation Excel Template: 10 Simple Steps to Success
By: John Carvalho | President, Divestopedia Inc.
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Transitional Service Agreement
A transitional service agreement (TSA) is a type of agreement that is made between the buyer and seller of a company. In this arrangement, the seller agrees to provide certain services to the buyer at a predetermined price. These services can include accounting, IT and human resources and their...
Cash Sweep
A cash sweep is the use of a company's excess cash to pay outstanding debts ahead of the scheduled payment date instead of giving it to their investors or shareholders. This process helps a company to minimize risk and liability as well as pay its debt at a faster rate than what is expected or...
Standard Operating Procedures
Standard operating procedures (SOPs) are the documented processes that a company has in place to ensure services and/or products are delivered consistently every time while meeting minimum quality standards. In practical terms, most SOPs are written as a step-by-step series of operating...
Business Valuation Excel Template: 10 Simple Steps to Success
Determining the value of your business is the starting point to building value. Here’s how to set up a simple valuation template in excel.
By: John Carvalho | President, Divestopedia Inc.
Neutralizing the Due Diligence Grind
This article explains how to negate the due diligence grind that can potentially decrease your sale price.
Do Advisory Boards Increase Business Value?
Great advisory boards bring innovation and opportunity, but can they increase the overall value of your organization?
What is the impact of supplier concentration on business value?
Concentration in the acquisition world is a bad word. Businesses with high supplier concentration attract fewer buyers and this lowers the price. What’s too high? Having a supplier with 40% of your business is too high. Diversify if at all possible. When buyers look at a company for sale,...
When is the best time of year to sell a business?
There are plenty of articles answering the question: how long does it take to sell a business? The typical response is that it takes about 8 to 12 months to appropriately prepare, plan and execute the sale of a mid-market business. There are also lots of articles that cover "when is the right time...
By: John Carvalho | President, Divestopedia Inc.
What's the difference between growth capex, maintenance capex and internally financed capex?
There are generally two reasons companies spend money on capital expenditures (capex): to grow the business, and to maintain the business. Once a company determines it needs to make a capex investment it must decide how to pay for the capex, either using company cash or debt. Let’s explore each...
