Business Acquisitions & Sales

Business Acquisitions

We specialise in assisting our clients through the highly complicated process of buying and selling a business.

Purchase Phase

The process of acquiring a business is an event that may happen only once through-out your business life.

Our specialist services during purchase generally incorporate:

• Review of initial information provided by selling agent and vendor.
• Sensitivity analysis and calculation of sales turnover and margins for breakeven points and desired return on investment.
• Choosing the appropriate business structure (having regard to your existing circumstances, on-going asset protection, income tax and capital gains tax considerations).
• In conjunction with your legal advisors, advising in relation to appropriate contract conditions to ensure your interests are protected through-out the purchase phase.
• Undertaking due diligence and financial verification reviews and provision of detailed report.
• Finance review and liaising with finance provider(s) in relation thereto.

Post-purchase Phase

Once the business has been secured, we can assist in ensuring accounting and information systems are in place and can provide timely, relevant financial information. In this respect, we can assist you in:

• Set up and implementation of accounting systems
• Identification of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) that drive the business
• Implementing systems to benchmark and measure KPI’s
• Formulation of monthly management reporting frameworks incorporating comparative analysis, industry benchmarks and budgets
• Formulation of business budgets
• Assistance in compiling management reporting as required