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Significant financial distress up more than 30 per cent
- April 2024
New data has revealed that the number of UK companies in “significant” financial distress was up more than 30 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024, with the macroeconomic challenges that businesses faced in 2023 continuing during the first three months of the year. According to ...
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FOR SELLERS Preparing a business for sale
Businesses are so often sold at values beneath their potential, allowing buyers to achieve additiona...
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FOR SELLERS Selling Your Business: The Need for Documentary Evidence
Selling Your Business: The Need for Documentary Evidence You've done the hard work and built u...
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FOR SELLERS Planning an Exit Strategy
Planning Your Exit Strategy Many owner-managers put in a lifetime of hard work building their busin...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES What is a Winding Up Petition?
Winding-up petitions are applications made to courts to wind up a company (close down a business) an...
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FOR BUYERS Putting Right a Poor Acquisition
The Business Sale Report has teamed up with a leading business turnaround practitioner who has put t...
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FOR BUYERS Internal Rate of Return
Valuing a Business: Discounted Cash Flow and the Internal Rate of Return Valuing a business can o...
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FOR SELLERS Company Exit Multiples
Private Company Exit Multiples Set to Overtake Public Company Comparables The PCPI, produced by BDO...
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FOR BUYERS Evaluating a Target Company
Evaluating and Wooing the Target Having identified a target or made a shortlist, the acquiring comp...
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FOR BUYERS Current state of the M&A market
A look at the current state of the M&A market for small and medium sized businesses Up until this s...
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FOR BUYERS Caveat Emptor - Dangers of buying a business
There are many purchasing pitfalls that can trap the unwary. People sell their homes for a range of ...
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FOR BUYERS Caveat Emptor
Buying a business is not like buying a car. Get it wrong with a business and it is likely to seriou...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Entrepreneurs' relief - the latest concession from Alistair Darling
First there was retirement relief, then there was business asset taper relief, and now there is entr...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Entrepreneurs' relief - how to qualify
Entrepreneurs' relief is a welcome concession to the small business community who felt that the...
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FOR BUYERS What do you know about TUPE?
The other day I was talking to a business purchaser who told me he was just about to draft his Heads...