How to Buy a Business or The Smart Womans Guide to Interviewing and Salary Negotiation

How to Buy a Business

Author: Richard A Joseph

This book is geared toward the sophisticated entrepreneur who wants to build a career or wealth by owning their own small business. How to Buy a Business shows how things work in the active small business marketplace, covering in detail such subjects as:
* Finding and evaluating candidates for acquisition.
* Financing, negotiating and structuring the deal.
* Dealing with legal and tax impliclications.
* How to purchase at the right time for the right price.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword
	Preface
1	Why Buy a Small Business?	1
2	Considerations When Buying a Small Business	10
3	Planning Your Search	20
4	Your Advisers	37
5	How To Find Acquisition Candidates	47
6	Financial Evaluation of an Acquisition Candidate	61
7	Evaluating the Nonfinancial Issues	81
8	Determining a Price	99
9	Financing the Acquisition	126
10	Choice of Business Form	152
11	Structuring the Deal	159
12	The Letter of Intent	188
13	Negotiating the Purchase	198
14	Due Diligence, Purchase Agreement and Closing the Deal	209
15	Managing the Acquisition	216
	Appendix A. Reference Texts	225
	Appendix B. Using a Computer in Your Search	234
	Appendix C. Securities Issues	242
	Appendix D. SBA Offices and SBICs	245
	Index	270
	About the Authors	276

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The Smart Woman's Guide to Interviewing and Salary Negotiation

Author: Julie Adair King

Smart Woman's Guide to Interviewing and Salary Negotiation covers the entire interview process, job applications and employment tests (including drug tests), evaluating job offers, negotiating your best deal, accepting or declining an offer, and how to ask for a raise...and get it.