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• How do you value your business?
• What is due diligence?
• Should you buy a business that is in trouble?

This pocket guide provides succinct and readable answers to these and other questions on buying and selling a business. You don't need an MBA to understand the fundamentals, just a sound working knowledge of business principles.

Award-winning chartered accountant and business consultant Hugh Williams provides a personal overview of the financial considerations and business judgements to be made.

• Why are you going into business?
• The four purposes of a business
• Why are you buying a business rather than setting one up from scratch?
• Finding and approaching a business
• Who is advising you?
• Should you buy a business in trouble?
• What sort of business structure?
• What are you buying? 
• How to value a business
• What is due diligence?
• Ways of paying for the business
• The required legal documents
• The tax implications on buying a business 
• Making sure that the business doesn?t die the day you take it over 
• Setting out properly so that you can sell the business 
• Planning your sale 
• Who is advising you over the sale?
• Valuing your business
• Finding a buyer
• The tax implications on selling a business