Business Ownership Transitions: Buying, Selling, and Exit Strategies Beginning the Process through Due Diligence

This 4 credit hour course, taught by Garland Granger, CIA, CPA, CFE. covers topics pertaining to financial and tax aspects of starting a business, selling a business, and leaving a business you are part of.

In this course you will explore how to gain a good understanding of the reasons why a sale or purchase might fail, recognize cultural differences between businesses and how to make different cultures work, explore key information a seller and buyer would be interested in knowing prior to the acquisition, discover how to gain a better understanding of due diligence beyond the numbers, explore how to determine how to screen out bad companies, and discover how to examine cash flows as a method of pricing.