Preparing Your
Business for Exit
Be Ready for an Ownership
Transition
Have you been approached by private equity to potentially buy your business? Are the risks of keeping your business greater than selling? Are there personal or family circumstances that are making it difficult for you to invest the time & energy needed to take your business to the next level? The reality is that we can’t always predict the timing of an optimal ownership transition.
In this eBook, Eric Krucke, Aprio’s CFO Practice Leader and former Berkshire Hathaway CFO, shares how to find forward-looking clarity and to align the fundamental priorities for leaders to successfully be ready for an ownership transition. After all, a great business to sell is also a great business to keep.
Based on real-world business scenarios, these fundamentals can help leaders in any industry establish a clear destination and a roadmap to guide their companies to a successful exit.
What's inside
Eric will walk you through critical topics with insight gained from hands-on experience with the issues.
Chapter 1: Provide Clarity
Chapter 2: Success Starts With Strategy
Chapter 3: People are Your Priority
Chapter 4: Direct Your Cash Flow to Grow the Value of Your Business
Chapter 5: Build and Strengthen Your Infrastructure to Scale
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About the author
Eric Krucke
CFO Practice Leader | Advisory Director,
Aprio Advisory Group, LLC
Eric, a former Berkshire Hathaway CFO, advises founder-owned businesses seeking to exit: maximizing deal value, flexibility and confidence.
He has more than 25 years of financial leadership and M&A experience, including more than a dozen acquisitions and a sale to Berkshire Hathaway.
Eric received his bachelor’s degree from Florida State University where he is currently a guest lecturer at the FSU Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship. As a sought-after public speaker, Eric regularly shares his ownership transitions expertise with audiences across the nation.
When Eric is not out and about with people, he loves spending time with his family. He enjoys bass fishing or relaxing on the Florida Panhandle beaches.
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