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- Business Succession and Exit Planning
- The Ownership Effect Inquiry: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?
- Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
- The Psychology of Employee Ownership – why does it work?
- Valuation for Financial Planners – not all revenue is created equal
- Business Valuation methods – EBITDA or NOPAT?
- Is your business your retirement plan?
- 3 ways to know if an ESOP is right for your business
- Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs) – An Employee Retention Strategy
- Maximise the value of your business with an Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Using Mergers & Acquisitions for Business Growth
- Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs) for Australia, announcement by Minister for Industrial Relations
- Now is the time to stop and take stock of your business
- Employee Ownership – 2019 survey results from UK indicate sector growth
- Employee Share Scheme (ESS) start-up concessions
- Compensation as an Employee Retention Strategy
- Exit Planning: Opt for Pre-mortem rather than Post-mortem
- Low Employee Engagement? These measures will turn it around
- How becoming Certified Employee-Owned can benefit your business
- Should you keep your business in the family?
- 15 Tips for Preparing Your Business for Sale
- Phantom Share Schemes – can you have your cake and eat it too?
- Should you engage a business adviser for your succession and exit strategy?
- Will implementing an Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP) mean I need to hand over control of my business?
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- Family Wealth Management
- Do I really need a Shareholders’ Agreement?
- Your Business – Sale or Succession?
- Which Employee Share Ownership Plan is right for your business?
- What’s the #1 tip for exiting your business at maximum value?
- Is an Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP) an effective remuneration strategy?
- How an attitude of ‘she’ll be right, mate’ won’t work for your family business succession
- Academic Research on ESOPs
- How will tax affect the sale of your business?
- 6 causes of business devaluation and how to avoid them
- When is the right time to sell your business?
- Why do Employee Share Ownership Plans work?
- Family Business Succession: “One day, it will all be yours” but it won’t come easy
- Thinking Growth and Acquisitions or Business Sale
- Employee Ownership Mindset is a shortcut to your succession planning
- The ins and outs of a Cash Flow Statement
- 4 Avoidable pitfalls of selling a business
- Be in control of your business exit strategy
- Funding Acquisitions for SMEs
- Family matters when it comes to business succession
- Employee Share Schemes (ESS) Explained
- Why Phantom Share Plans don’t work
- Employees’ most frequently asked Employee Share Plan questions
- Strategic Acquisition
- How your star employees can afford to buy into your business
- Managing Value & Leaving a Legacy
- Extracting the Value of your Business
- Maximising the Value of your Business
- Protecting the Value of your Business
- Identifying the Value of your Business
- The 4 Big Succession Issues
- Business Valuation: What’s it worth?
- 2019 is nearly here. Are you succession ready?
- Why it pays to plan your exit strategy early
- Babette Bensoussan – Strategic Competitive Intelligence
- Adviser Masterclass Series: Action Plan – How to help your clients and attract new clients
- SME Experts: Take your business to the next level
- Why you’ll always get ‘unders’ when selling your business through a broker
- The dangers of leaving your business exit and succession plan too late
- Mark Pinhorn – Strategic Accounting
- Changing the Entitled Mindset to one of Ownership
- Michael Bova – Family Wealth Planning
- Myth Busted: My employees won’t be interested in joining an Employee Share Ownership Plan
- Mike Rich – The Mid-market in Australia
- Is an Employee Share Ownership Plan the answer to your Succession?
- How do you help your clients attract new clients?
- Acquire, Expand or Merge to Facilitate Your Exit Strategy
- Employee Share Ownership Plans as a Succession Strategy
- What is keeping you awake at night?
- Adviser Masterclass Series: Employee Share Ownership Plans as a Succession Option
- The gift card is dead. Salary packaging business ownership is a real incentive.
- Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOP) as a Funding Option?
- Adviser Masterclass Series: Maximising Value – What are buyers worried about?
- The What, Why, When and How of Succession Planning
- Adviser Masterclass Series: Family Business Succession
- Employee Engagement through Employee Ownership
- Performance Reviews
- Communication is vital to success in planning your exit
- Why every person in business is important
- Adviser Masterclass Series: Small Business CGT Concessions
- Ownership Mindset: How your staff could help maximise the value of your business if only you’d let them
- Strong demand for M&A across cash-rich financial and strategic buyers is maintaining upward pressure on valuations
- Adviser Masterclass Series: Structuring for Succession – Who owns what?
- Succession Planning for Small to Medium Businesses
- Accelerating Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOP)
- Adviser Masterclass Series: Business Valuation Tips and Traps
- How do I minimise Capital Gains Tax?
- Maximise your return on sale
- Maximise employee retention and engagement
- A successful exit in 21 steps
- Adviser Masterclass Series: Why Succession Planning?
- PPT Overview
- What is a leveraged ESOP?
- Enjoy It by Craig West
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- Employee Share Ownership Plans
- Insurance Broking
- What is Capital Gains Tax?
- Business Succession and Exit Planning – What You Need To Know
- What is an Accredited Adviser?
- How much is your business worth?
- Why Accountants are struggling to add ‘Business Advisory’ services to their firm
- What does your business look like in 2037?
- Accountants – it’s not about the numbers – it’s about value added advice!
- Employee ownership fuels UK Designer Mott MacDonald
- Management Buy-In and Buy-Out
- Personal Profile Analysis
- Small Business CGT Concessions Overview
- Management Consulting Mergers and Acquisitions Report 2017 by Equiteq
- How Baby Boomer Accountants Can Maximise Their Exit Payout
- Consumers are Willing to Pay More for Products Made by Employee-Owners
- Charitable Giving When Selling Your Business Benefits Everyone
- Employee Share Ownership May Help Businesses Stay Open as Boomers Retire
- Capital Gains Tax Tips
- Underperformance – Are you treating the symptom or the cause?
- Small Business Capital Gains Tax (CGT) Concessions – $1B Tax Concessions in 1 Year
- Succession Planning Strategies
- Unplanned Adventures
- Succession Planning Definition
- Regrets – I’ve Had A Few!
- It’s Not All About the Kids
- 3 Key Business Succession and Exit Planning Messages
- What is Business Succession and Exit Planning?
- Employees Not Performing
- Warning Signs of Underperformance
- The #1 Tip for Maximising the Sale Price of Your Business
- 4 Myths about Selling a Business: Debunked
- Top 10 Sales Tips
- Key Trends for Businesses in 2016
- 3 Trends Happening in Private Equity
- Overcoming Hubris
- 5 Things I Wish SME Clients Asked Me: A Strategic Advisor’s Viewpoint
- 6 Questions for Start-Ups Wanting to Raise Capital
- When to Hire Outside Help for Family Business
- Three Ways Employee Engagement Impacts Your Bottom Line
- Critical Skills Accounting Advisors Need to Support SMEs in 2017
- When to Use a Business Broker
- Common Pitfalls with Business Valuation
- Winter Prep for Business Owners
- Maximise Your Time at Business Networking Events with these 5 Tips
- 5 Key Traits of Successful Employee Share Ownership Plans
- Insurance Broking: 2016 Trends
- Financial planners lagging behind on Succession Planning
- Disruption and Confidence
- The Importance of Risk Management
- Latest research findings – Succession in the 21st Century – Succession Reset
- A Guide to an Employee Retention Strategy
- A large part of the goodwill of business sits directly in the quality of the brand. Maybe a polish is in order.
- Life After Business
- Dangers of Willful Blindness
- Secrets of Success
- Extracting Maximum Value on Exit from Your Privately Owned Business
- Quality businesses are well rehearsed and always deliver positive experience
- Keep it safe – Add value with a quality succession strategy
- Living the Dream
- The Changing Face of Business: Disruption in a Digital Era
- Make your marketing experience real
- CONGRATULATIONS to our client DIGITAL PACIFIC with a successful strategic acquisition of Crucial
- Don’t muck it up!
- Don’t muck up your exit ! “The proper man understands equity – the small man, profits” Confucius 551 – 479 BC
- Mergers and acquisitions in consulting sector riding high
- For a business to have genuine sale value now …
- Do your employees think and act like business owners?
- Who owns Enterprise?
- It’s All About the Journey
- June – the first month of Winter
- Catalyst for Change
- Succession Planning and Business Exit Strategies with Craig West
- Why Succession Planning is Important for your Business
- Federal Budget 2015
- ‘Have a Go’ said Hockey.
- Begin, With The End in Mind
- Fresh Thinking
- Are you struggling to engage with your employees?
- Threat and Opportunity
- Live Cheap or Die Young
- Exit Planning : Get the best price for your brokerage
- Free Trade Agreement Benefits Go Far Beyond Exports for Australian SMEs Seeking Succession or Exit Opportunities – February 2014
- The anatomy of a successful business succession & exit – January 2014
- Succession Plus Media Release – November 2013
- How To Really Maximize The Value Of Your Business (1st Oct 2013)
- A Big Issue – Sold Magazine
- Succession cover story – IFA
- Your Wealth Magazine February (2011)
- The Business of adding value – Sold Magazine
- Strategic Sales – My Business May (2012)
- Sell your real estate business for the best price – Sold Magazine
- Planning your getaway – My Business Magazine May (2005)
- Maximise the Value of your Business GWP Magazines Oct (2011)
- Identify Value – Your Wealth Magazine March (2011)
- Get your Business sale ready – Sold Magazine Nov (2009)
- Exit this way – Broker News February (2012)
- Enjoy it – The Private Practice Magazine
- Buying a business – the funding options – Sold Magazine
- Begin with the end in mind – Your Wealth Magazine March (2011)
- Attracting a Buyer for Your Business – Your Wealth Magazine October (2011)
- How To Maximise The Value Of Your Business & Successful Exit
- Talking Business with Alan Kohler
- If you crave more freedom, you’ll have to build a structure to accommodate it
- My Business Magazine July (2005)
- Consistency Is A Natural Expectation
- Employee Share Plan Survey 2014
- Paddling Without a Destination in Mind
- SME Bucks Trend with ESOP C-MAC GWP Magazines Dec (2011)
- Incentive Plans – My Business August (2012)
- Founders out, Employees in
- AHRI Article – Share and Share Alike (2011)
- Is Retirement a Mirage?
- Change to the Taxation of Employee Share Schemes
- How to make succession planning the New Year’s resolution that actually sticks!
- Another Year On!
- Stability v Disruption
- Australian companies set to capitalise on mergers and acquisitions boom
- Mixed fortunes for Western Australia’s economy in latest CCI report
- Implementing Ownership Thinking
- Resolving Conflict
- Leadership Lessons for business owners from the Navy Seals
- Employee Engagement – How to get your employees to think and act like business owners
- Having lunch in the largest employee owned business in the UK
- Employee Share Ownership Plans – ESOP's new data from OEOC conference
- Family Business
- Optimism, Confidence, Spin & Reality!
- Top 50 employee-owned companies – total sales of £20.5 bn
- Manufacturing in Australia
- Where there is a will, there is a way
- Financial Year 2013/2014
- Are You Sure That’s Productive?
- The Budget
- Next Generation Failing to Provide Succession & Exit Solution for SMEs Business Owners
- GE Capital Mid-Market Report 2014
- Employee ownership continuously progressing across Europe since the financial crisis
- M & A Mid Market update – February 2014
- Annual client conference and strategy day 2014
- Retirement Trends
- Listed companies can make great buyers
- Key results from SME direction survey – 10 key insights from 1000 SME’s, common trends for 2014
- Companies that encourage employee ownership – outperform
- New Adelaide Office
- China’s going out strategy is a major opportunity for Australian business owners
- Employee Engagement – cost or revenue – better get it right !
- Business Succession & Exit planning – a major election issue ?
- Yahoo pays an 84 times revenue multiple for Tumblr – that’s a Strategic Sale !
- BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND – Adam Scotts yearbook “to be the best golfer in the world”
- ESOP’s – “profitability and productivity improve” new report findings.
- Top reasons of Small business Failures
- Merger and acquisition activity hits an 8 year low
- SME business owners Succession and Exit Planning survey
- Boomer retirement funding gap – delay in the hope for returning asset values
- Shanghai investment delegation April 2013
- What Is A Business Broker
- Latest research from Australian Research Council on Family Succession
- Recent Findings from the AVCAL Deal Metrics Survey 2012
- Are ESOP’s really more complicated than other ways to sell or exit your business ? National Centre for Employee Ownership
- Seven secrets of great family firms – smartcompany
- Employee ownership could be the solution to business succession in Wales, says Wales Cooperative Centre
- SME owners global survey on Business Succession and Exit Planning
- Owner – employee status announced in UK – with no Capital Gains tax !
- Key business notes from John McGrath presentation at a business networking breakfast
- Latest mid-market research from GE Capital – June 2012 Mid Market report
- Business Owners to Benefit from Sentry Group Succession Solution Initiative
- Strategic sales get higher prices – what makes your business attractive to a strategic buyer ?
- Key Findings from Sharing Success – the Nuttall review of Employee Ownership – 4 July 2012
- Succession Planning – lessons from history
- New Research – Sharing ownership widely a powerful strategy
- Business Valuation – the Facebook example – PE ratio of over 67
- Congratulations to our client C-MAC Industries who last week won the ESOP of the year award for SME Succession
- China update – potential investors / buyers for Australian business
- Bizexchange Index trend analysis Dec quarter 2011
- Listed companies as buyers
- Ownership Thinking – the end of entitlement – Brad Hams
- Australian Private Business Values December Qtr 2011–BizExchange Index latest results
- Pricing of Strategic sales vs Financial sales for business owners
- Small business failures up 48 per cent
- “My business is my super” – oops !
- SME numbers – latest numbers from Bureau of statistics ( June 2011 )
- Business Research – Intern position available
- Exit planning a key focus – NSW Small Business Commissioner’s 2011 Listening Tour Report
- “Knowledge is power” – lessons from high growth businesses.
- UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg pushes ‘John Lewis’-style economy – wants workers to be given the right to request shares in their companies.
- Succession and Exit planning message not really sinking in !
- US National Center for Employee Ownership Survey findings
- Sorry tale of an SME simply closing the doors
- Apple – How can share prices sink when one man gets i-sick ?
- Australian Small Business – Key Statistics – November 2011
- Don’t sell your business too early or too late !
- Australian Private Business Values – latest report and key findings
- Profits linked to employee happiness & strong leadership – smart company
- Size does matter – Valuation gap surges in middle market business sales
- Findings from the Sensis Business Index for SME’s
- The ‘exit generation’ needs help – SMH 19th September
- Restless generation lacks job satisfaction – SMH 13 September
- Some interesting findings from looking thru the 35 success factors for long lasting family business
- What Steve Jobs Teaches Up About Succession Planning
- Issues affecting the succession process
- Archer takes $1.2b for MYOB
- Latest research from the 2011 Family Business Survey
- Commercialisation Australia chief Doron Ben-Meir: We want to fund more innovative SMEs
- Grim short term outlook for SME’s – SMH 9th August
- ESOP report: Record number of employers offering approved share schemes
- For a more valuable business you’ll need to hit these sweet spots: Part 2
- Latest family business research from Marquette University Center for Family Business
- Greatest Business Challenges research – thanks to Society for Executive Wisdom
- Family Business transition – a significant transfer of wealth
- For a more valuable business you’ll need to hit these sweet spots
- Think Gen-Y is the problem? Think again. Baby Boomers are the real threat to workplace stability!
- How to Inspire an Ownership Spirit Among Employees – Richard Branson
- Business Valuation using an EBIT multiple
- Still In The Business Planning Stage? It’s Time To Start Plotting Your Exit Strategy
- Put employee shares back on the tax agenda – Australian Financial Review 20th June 2011
- I think I'm turning 65 !!
- SME’s unprepared for exit, but reasonably confident
- Your Wealth Magazine
- Now there’s a great Australian dream to rival home ownership – SMH April 22 – Harold Mitchell
- Certified Exit Planning Adviser qualification
- Bruno Grollo adopts clear and concise succession strategy
- Wayne Bennett and Management Succession Planning
- ESOP COMPANIES OUTPERFORM
- Trauma Insurance – include the kids
- Succession Plus launches Exit Planning Institute Australia and New
- Efficiency or Expansion – STRATEGIC Succession Planning !
- Steve Jobs succession planning at Apple: shareholders keep up pressure
- Michael Gerber on exit planning
- Habit 2 – Begin with the End in Mind
- APPLE shareholders demand a succession plan
- Combination of financial , retirement planning, and business strategic
- Australian Employee Share plan of the year !
- Apple – How can a share price tank when one man gets i-sick ?
- Australian Family Business information at a glance
- Howard and Costello on Leadership Succession – two different views – same poor result !
- Succession Issues for Financial Planners
- Dramatic increase in confidence & business expectations – but planning is
- ESOP’s for Succession Planning – Client case studies
- Employee Share Ownership Plans ( ESOP ) – some performance
- Employee Owned companies in UK outperform FTSE
- SEC States Succession Planning a Key Board Responsibility
- Age of businesses and the owners leads to ownership transition
- ESOP’s in the US powering on
- Lessons from Bob Bohlen – arguably the worlds No 1 real estate salesman
- Profile of Family Business in Australia
- PWC Business Barometer – key business succession & exit planning
- Strategic Exit Planning – a 5 year project
- Decreased risk means increased business valuation
- MGI Australian Family and Private Business Survey July 2010 key
- “The company must be set up so it can run without me.”—Sir Richard
- FBA survey results on dynamics of Generational Succession in Family
- Business exit numbers in Australia – Succession planning at work?
- Generational Profile – Boomers in rapid decline
- Wholesale investor national survey March 2010 – reveals strong growth in
- Education improves financial outcomes
- Projected life expectancy creates a funding problem
- 55% of all business exits are as a result of failure !
- SME Survey September Quarter 2009 shows considerable improvement
- Grim Glut is forcing prices firmly down-Business Owner
- BUSINESS EXIT OPTIONS FOR SME OWNERS
- Incidence of Employee Share Ownership is low in Australia ( especially in SME’s ) – but why ?
- Employees are keen to climb the ladder to equity – but someone needs to provide the ladder
- Key findings from Family Business Survey 2009 – Just released
- PWC extract on common business succession mistakes
- Benchmarking – use it as your compass!
- Getting your business sale ready – Structure and due diligence
- Business Wealth and Family Wealth – Business succession planning and estate planning are the link
- Plan your business affairs for taxation or plan for business sale – they are not the same !
- Business succession planning- Use an employee share plan to provide certainty
- Succession is also about someone’s entry as a business leader or owner
- The Pope and Employee Share Plans
- Using employee share plans to retain key sales people and fund your exit from real estate business
- Every company has to be owned by someone – why not the people working in the business ?
- Follow us on Twitter and Facebook
- Groundswell of support for Employee Share ownership
- Valuation – Public companies versus privately held businesses – a few issues
- Medium and small business Tax concessions
- VISY Succession Plan Minimises Disruption
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- Holistic View of Succession
- Benchmark to Build Business Value
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- Employee equity plans in small, medium enterprises
- Moor Right for Acquisitions
- Family Business – Or Not?
- Succession Planning – The Current Position
- Barriers To Exiting a Business
- Employee incentives & equity – A Solution to funding?
- Boutique Businesses
- The Value Spectrum
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- Involuntary Succession
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- How Baby Boomer Accountants Can Maximise Their Exit Payout
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