Post sale lifestyle planning
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Setting up a trust
Putting your exit proceeds into a trust for your children can help protect your money and your family
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5 financial steps after exit
How to ensure good financial planning after a business sale
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3 questions acquirers are asking
In extraordinary times buyers want to know how your business has traded through the pandemic and more about its future prospects
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Preparing for business exit in 2021
What to expect from buyers and how you can prepare if you want to sell your business in 2021
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Is your buyer serious?
What homework do you need to do on a potential buyer to ensure their interest is genuine?
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Reacting to unsolicited offers
What should you do if you receive an unexpected offer to buy your company during the Covid-19 crisis?
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Learning from the financial crisis
Lessons from the 2008 crash can be helpful if you’re considering exiting or acquiring a business in today’s pandemic-impacted world
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Staying on course
While Covid-19 has changed many things, it doesn’t need to alter how businesses are valued ahead of sale
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How to exit in 2020
Demonstrate strong leadership through the pandemic and achieve three months of stable, sustainable profitability and growth
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Protecting your wealth
How can entrepreneurs secure their personal wealth in the era of coronavirus?
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Entrepreneurs’ Relief changes from £10 million to £1 million
The March Budget saw the Chancellor announce that Entrepreneurs’ Relief is being scaled back from £10m to £1m – how does this affect you?
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Crunch time for Entrepreneurs’ Relief?
All signals point to Entrepreneurs’ Relief being reduced or removed in the March 2020 budget. Entrepreneurs should consider revising their business and personal financial plans accordingly.
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Starting over
How to launch another business and protect the proceeds of your first exit
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Navigating to exit in uncertain times
Personal financial plans and business plans need robust stress testing
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Entrepreneurs’ Relief – which way now?
A growing number of respected organisations have criticised the relief as ineffective at encouraging entrepreneurialism
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15 facts about extracting capital
With businesses facing uncertain trading conditions, you may decide to take capital from your business now or even sell up altogether. Here are some tips for extracting your money in the most tax-efficient way but an accountant will be able to say whether they are right for you
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Entrepreneurs’ Relief: how it affects you
Making the most of this tax benefit
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Should you save or invest?
Once you’ve sold your company, should you save your new-found wealth in the bank or build an investment portfolio?
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The emotional rollercoaster
How does the thought of selling your business make you feel?
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Investing the proceeds of exit
When you come to sell, what will you do with the money you make?
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When buyers come knocking
What do you do if someone asks to buy your business?
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Olderpreneur power
Today’s over-50s are shunning the quiet life and using pension freedoms to fund their entrepreneurial ventures
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Passing on the proceeds
Sharing the money from a business sale with your kids could be the perfect Christmas present, but you’ll need to plan the gift carefully
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Six ways to manage wealth
How best to protect, utilise and enjoy the proceeds from selling your business
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Working for a good cause
If you want to take a more philanthropic approach to life after exiting you can put your business skills to good use for a charity
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Preserving wealth using replacement business relief
When selling a business, Inheritance Tax consequences are sometimes overlooked.
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Delaying automatic enrolment
With workplace pension staging well underway, inertia may be the wrong choice for the self-employed, even though they have no automatic workplace help until 2022.
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Seeking new challenges
Entrepreneurs are enthusiastic people. Even after a rewarding business exit they seek a variety of new avenues to recapture the challenge and sometimes the profit of their previous life.
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Should I stay or should I go?
Selling a company you may have spent years developing can be an emotional wrench. So much so that, on occasion, an entrepreneur decides to stick around via a seat on the board or an equity share. Is it a sensible move?
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Life after exit
Many entrepreneurs return to the world of business even after a successful exit gives them the chance to retire
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Entrepreneur to angel
You’ve built and sold a successful business – what’s next? Many entrepreneurs turn to angel investing to help other businesses grow
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Making Tax Digital – an update
The Government's Making Tax Digital project is intended to simplify tax for businesses and HMRC. But will it succeed?
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