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Here’s a useful test. If you disappeared for four weeks — no calls, no emails, nothing — would your business keep running smoothly? For a lot of owner-managers, the honest…

Here’s a statistic worth sitting with. Research from the Exit Planning Institute suggests that somewhere between 70% and 80% of businesses that go to market never actually complete a sale.…

At some point, most owner-managers get the call, or the email. Someone — a broker, a corporate finance boutique, sometimes even a competitor — wants to know if you’d ever…

Ask most business owners why cash is tight, and they’ll assume it’s because they don’t have enough capital. In reality, it’s much more often a working capital problem. The money…

If more than half your revenue comes from a single customer, you might call that a success story. A big win. A stable relationship. A business that’s landed a major…

Here’s a simple exercise. Imagine your business invoices £100 and incurs costs of £80. How much cash do you have in the bank? Most people say £20. But it depends…

Ask any business owner how their business is doing, and most will quote you a turnover figure — the total amount of money that came in last year. It’s an…

Cash may be king but does it reign over your kingdom? We’re all familiar with the phase revenue is vanity, profit is sanity but cash is king. However, despite this…

“When life gives you lemons, it’s not always possible to make lemonade…” Have you recently received any unsolicited emails trying to entice you into the exciting world of M&A? The…

“Spooky, scary skeletons send shivers down your spine…” It might be better to run and hide if you encounter these due diligence ghouls this Halloween. One of the joys of…