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Exit Planning for Founders: How to Minimize Taxes in an Acquisition

Harness Wealth

Setting clear financial goals and obtaining realistic business valuations early in the process helps you understand how timing impacts both taxes and overall returns. These determinations require careful analysis and documentation. Understanding these distinctions helps structure transactions to maximize preferential tax treatment.

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Good Preparation Leads to a Good Audit Experience: What to Expect from Your Investment Advisor

Brown Advisory

Explain the timing difference and cutoff on valuations. An auditor is often most concerned with point-in-time valuations and keenly focused on financial controls, especially the nuances of the accounting rules regarding liquidity (e.g. Define the type of investments involved, (e.g., bonds, stocks, mutual funds, limited partnerships).

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12 Best Paying Jobs in Finance in 2023

Good Financial Cents

This is referred to as financial statement analysis: a comprehensive review of key financial documents to assess a company’s effectiveness. Thinking critically is of the utmost importance for business leaders when it comes time to make big decisions like hiring, budgeting, and strategic planning.

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Transcript: Joanne Bradford

The Big Picture

I went in there and the valuation was below a billion dollars. And at two years the valuation was $13 billion. And so we offer that plan for $2,500. If it’s more complex, we offer a strategic plan or a full comprehensive plan where we’ll help rebalance and, and do your portfolio for $7,500.

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Transcript: Sander Gerber, CEO and CIO Hudson Bay Capital

The Big Picture

Because what we would do is we would parachute into places like British Airways, Montreal Trust Ca Industries, and we were like the external strategic planning. The valuation of risk versus 00:46:33 [Speaker Changed] Reward 00:46:34 [Speaker Changed] Is something that I think a machine cannot do in the same way that human can.

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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

You know, they hired this guy, Mike Carpenter, you know, from McKinsey to be the M&A guy and you know, just create a strategic planning department just to do deals. And he produced a document that was supposedly, you know, definitive, and that became pretty much totally debunked. They were really an M&A machine.