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Certified Exit Planner
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Answer 27 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Favorable tax treatments for both buyer (ESOP) and seller - Benefits ALL employees.
Third Party Sale: Disadvantages
Benefits (to Biz Owners) of Setting Goals
Five Essential Elements of Successful Exit Plan
ESOPs: Advantages
2. After-tax income needs of the client after departure from the company - Assets that are expected to generate that income stream and the assumptions upon which this analysis is based - Estimated tax and/or after-tax calculations - Wealth management pl
Important Elements of the financial analysis
Financial Planning Factors to Consider
Benefits (to Biz Owners) of Setting Goals
ESOPs: Disadvantages
3. Family - Co-Owner - Key employee(s) - Outside party - ESOP
Sale to Employees: Disadvantages
If clients don't understand advantages and disadvantages of each choice
To whom does the owner want to transfer the business?
Advantages of Using an Experienced Financial Planner
4. No cash up front unless the owner has pre-funded - and even then - he or she has probably pre-funded with money that was the owner's anyway - A greater risk may exist because the owner's buyout money typically comes from the future earnings of the bu
Financial Needs Analysis
Info needed to determine the money that Biz Owner needs
Sale to Employees: Disadvantages
Transfer to Children: Advantages
5. The purpose of a Financial Needs Analysis is to compare the financial obligations that owners can realistically expect to face in the future with their personal financial resources that are not related to the Company. - Any deficit must be met by af
Info needed to determine the money that Biz Owner needs
Financial Needs Analysis
Five important pieces of information to be collected from the client
Five Essential Elements of Successful Exit Plan
6. Unveils whether owner has made incorrect assumptions - Prevents you from jumping ahead with solutions - Ensures that due care is spent on clarifying and prioritizing objectives.
Owners must choose from a limited number of possible successors
Establishing Universal Objectives
Sample FNA components
Transfer to Children: Disadvantages
7. Have you identified your exit path and/or successor? - Do you know how much money you need - on an annual basis - after you leave your business to live comfortably in your post-business life? - Have you established the date (ex: January 15 - 2010) y
To whom does the owner want to transfer the business?
Establishing Universal Objectives
Sale to Employees: Disadvantages
Probing Questions for the client
8. Deal Structure - Salary Compensation - Deferred Compensation
Owners must choose from a limited number of possible successors
Advantages of Using an Experienced Financial Planner
Sample FNA components
ESOPs: Disadvantages
9. A child or children (or other family members) - A co-owner or co-owners - An unrelated third party - An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
Owners must choose from a limited number of possible successors
Establishing Universal Objectives
Financial Needs Analysis - Factors to Consider
ESOPs: Advantages
10. If the business is properly prepared for sale - the owner can get cashed out at the closing - thereby receiving immediate cash. This ensures that owners attain their fundamental objective of financial security and - perhaps - avoid risk as well. - A
Transfer to Children: Advantages
Third Party Sale: Advantages
Role of the Financial Planner
Exit Plan
11. Educate them about the different exit paths by providing White Papers or past issues of The Exit Planning Review - Start the process by securing the preliminary valuation (and five year cash flow estimate) - or a Marketability Assessment by a transac
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12. ESOP loan in a 100% ownership transaction usually secured by personal assets or guaranteed by selling owner - Seller note still includes risk of non-payment - Complexity and expense occur before owner achieves liquidity event (contrast with third par
Benefits (to Biz Owners) of Setting Goals
ESOPs: Disadvantages
Probing Questions for the client
Sale to Employees: Disadvantages
13. Written Plan based on owner objectives and includes accountability checklist - Multi-disciplinary advisor team or assemblage of advisors working together - Strong management team - Strong cash flow - Time.
Third Party Sale: Advantages
Exit Plan
Five Essential Elements of Successful Exit Plan
Probing Questions for the client
14. Target Departure Date - A Preliminary Financial Needs Analysis - Desired Successor - A Preliminary Valuation of the Company - A Future Cash Flow Estimate
Five important pieces of information to be collected from the client
Financial Planning Factors to Consider
Exit Plan
Sample FNA components
15. If you know what the owner wants to do and you know what the owner has - you can do an _______.
Transfer to Children: Disadvantages
Third Party Sale: Disadvantages
Five Essential Elements of Successful Exit Plan
Exit Plan
16. Determines Objectives - Interprets the Data - Analyzes and Tests - Reviews the Plan
Benefits of Financial Needs Analysis (FNA)
Sample FNA components
Role of the Financial Planner
To whom does the owner want to transfer the business?
17. After-tax income needs of the client after departure from the company - Assets that are expected to generate that income stream and the assumptions upon which this analysis is based - Estimated tax and/or after-tax calculations - Wealth management
Owners must choose from a limited number of possible successors
Financial Needs Analysis - Factors to Consider
Sale to Employees: Advantages
Exit Plan
18. Preliminary Financial Needs Analysis - Preliminary Valuation of Company -Future Cash Flow Estimate
Transfer to Children: Disadvantages
Info needed to determine the money that Biz Owner needs
Owners must choose from a limited number of possible successors
Benefits of Financial Needs Analysis (FNA)
19. The owner's retirement income needs based on current lifestyle expenditures. (Owners must develop that personal budget they've resolved to develop... for the past 15 years!); - Inflation Assumptions - Size of Current Investments - Investment growth a
Important Elements of the financial analysis
Sale to Employees: Disadvantages
Benefits (to Biz Owners) of Setting Goals
Financial Planning Factors to Consider
20. Clarifies objectives - Prioritizes objectives - Facilitates progress by identifying a desired outcome - Focuses energy on most urgent concerns - Allows owner to control and define the Exit Planning Process
ESOPs: Advantages
Owners must choose from a limited number of possible successors
Benefits (to Biz Owners) of Setting Goals
Sale to Employees: Advantages
21. Receive Full Value for Ownership Interest - Benefit One or More Employees - Charitable or Civic Giving - Pass Wealth with Minimal Tax Consequences to Family Members - Perpetuate Legacy - Family Harmony
ESOPs: Disadvantages
Financial Planning Factors to Consider
Additional Owner Objectives
Advantages of Using an Experienced Financial Planner
22. Gives clients clear understanding of what they need and what the business needs to meet their personal financial goals - Provides a snapshot of the clients' current state of personal financials.
Advantages of Using an Experienced Financial Planner
Additional Owner Objectives
ESOPs: Advantages
Benefits of Financial Needs Analysis (FNA)
23. Great potential exists to increase family friction - discord and a feeling of unequal treatment among siblings - Financial security is normally diminished - not enhanced; although with careful planning and implementation - financial security often ca
Five important pieces of information to be collected from the client
Transfer to Children: Disadvantages
Owners must choose from a limited number of possible successors
Establishing Universal Objectives
24. Fulfills personal goals of keeping the business and family together. - Provides financial well-being for younger family members unable to earn comparable income from outside employment. - Allows owners to stay active in the business with their childr
Financial Planning Factors to Consider
Transfer to Children: Advantages
Financial Needs Analysis - Factors to Consider
Important Elements of the financial analysis
25. Allows the client to develop some reasonable numbers and thus expectations related to the future. - This analysis can be for retirement projections - cash flow and expense analysis and to assist in the design of a business Exit Plan - Without a FNA
Benefits of Financial Needs Analysis (FNA)
Third Party Sale: Disadvantages
Transfer to Children: Advantages
To whom does the owner want to transfer the business?
26. Owner can structure the deal ahead of time to suit his or her particular needs and objectives - With proper planning - it is possible to retain control until cashed out of the business - Pre-qualifies the buyer through on-the-job training and observa
Sale to Employees: Advantages
Info needed to determine the money that Biz Owner needs
Establishing Universal Objectives
Advantages of Using an Experienced Financial Planner
27. Regardless of what the buyer says - the personality and culture of the owner's business will undergo a radical change. The buyer would not buy the business unless he or she is convinced that the company can be improved through change. Maintaining the
Owners must choose from a limited number of possible successors
Role of the Financial Planner
Third Party Sale: Disadvantages
Financial Planning Factors to Consider