If you are a business owner who has spent years working hard to build a sustainable and profitable business. If you are now thinking about exploring your options to realise value and sell your business. Talk to us first. Our job is to work with you to create a high value exit.
As a specialist partner of a Top 10 UK deal advisory service, EFT are 100% focussed on preparing your business for sale. We don’t just polish up your financials and nail down your legals. That’s not us. We want to understand your business. We are also business professionals like you. We realise that in all the years you’ve spent working in the business – there may well be times you wished you could have spent more time working on your business. That’s us.
To maximise your exit value these are the three things that ideally need to be in place:
- Business is performing strongly
- Sector in good shape
- Economy strong
Getting all three to align at the same time is not easy
The single most important of the three is that the business is performing strongly and is forecasted to continue to trade well. It’s also the one that is most easily influenced. Unlike other professional advisors, this is where EFT comes in – well in advance. To identify, plan and help execute all the major changes and even the little changes that in aggregate will have a positive impact on the exit process and of course, value.
Getting you over the finishing line
We focus only on the things that matter to get you as many competitive offers for your business as we can
How we optimise your Business Performance
- Understand & discuss Business Owners Objective
- Review Business
- Agree areas that need to be tweaked / changed / improved:
- Operational, Sales, Commercial, Digitalisation, Marketing, Team, Financial,
- Agree plan and timing
- Execute plan
- Deliver
Which means:
- Establish a post-acquisition credible management team – demonstrate business can operate without the [entrepreneurial] business owner
- Credible up to date and accurate financial information
- Demonstrate profit pattern over a sustained period and trends, plus future growth opportunities
- Customer and supplier concentration – risk reduction Management of cash, debt & working capital
- Legal & Financial tidy up
- Tax planning