It is expected that the owners of 40% of small and mid-sized businesses will exit in the next five years. Many experts predict this demographically-induced wave may result in a…
All posts by Bob Lawrence, CPA, CA, CEPA
Last week, important issues such as global warming, the threat of international terrorism and whether or not Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is actually in an underground bunker in Kazakhstan, took a back…
I hate waiting. Waiting for my meal to come, waiting for a cheque in the mail, waiting for my teenage daughter to come home with my car. I am lucky…
There is never a bad time to enhance the value of your business. If you are contemplating exiting your business in the next few years, value enhancement should be on…
When Canadian tennis sensation Eugenie Bouchard reached the Wimbledon Women’s Singles Championship game this week, after being ranked just 133rd in the world in 2013, a reporter asked how surprised she…
What’s inside the black box of earnings & multiples Most business owners understand that small to medium sized businesses are commonly valued by potential purchasers based on some multiple of earnings. Seems…