How ready is your business to sell - honestly?
Thirteen questions. About three minutes. You get a straight readiness read and the specific gaps that move your number.
- What a buyer's accountant would say about your books - before one does.
- Whether the business runs without you, and how much that is worth.
- The two or three things to fix now, while you still have the time to fix them.
Most owners find out how ready they are from a buyer, in diligence, under a deadline. This is the same set of questions, asked two years earlier by someone on your side. Answer them as they are today, not as you'd like them to be - the read is only useful if it's honest.
It isn't a valuation and it doesn't ask for one. Nothing here commits you to anything. Your answers go to Jim Bates at Jackim Woods & Co. and nowhere else.
Who reads your answers
Jim Bates
Jackim Woods & Co.
Jim Bates is a Partner at Jackim Woods & Co. and co-author of Business Valuation For Dummies (Wiley). The firm has more than 25 years of sell-side advisory behind it and over 200 closed transactions, and every engagement is run by a principal. Jim works with owners of established lower-middle-market businesses who want a confidential, realistic read on value and exit options.
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