Selling Your Canadian Business: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing Value and Securing Your Legacy
Selling Your Canadian Business: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing Value and Securing Your Legacy is the roadmap you need to achieve a successful sale.
Tailored for owners of businesses generating $5M to $50M in annual revenue, this podcast provides actionable steps to navigate the complex M&A process in Canada. From personal and family preparation to leveraging tax benefits like the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption (LCGE), expert insights will help you maximize value and secure your legacy.
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Episodes
81 episodes
Understanding the Sale of a Business from a Buyer’s Perspective
Selling a business involves more than simply finding an interested buyer. One of the most important factors in completing a successful transaction is the buyer’s ability to secure financing. In this podcast, we explore the business sale process...
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13:29
How Delays Can Derail Your Business Sale
Timing plays a critical role in the success of selling a business. In mergers and acquisitions, delays can quickly derail a transaction, increase costs, and even cause deals to collapse. This podcast explores why time is such a decisive factor ...
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14:28
Letters of Intent: Problems & Solutions for Sellers
A Letter of Intent (LOI) is one of the most important milestones in the process of selling a business. It outlines the preliminary terms of a potential transaction and sets the stage for negotiations between buyers and sellers. While the LOI he...
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12:36
What Is a Quality of Earnings Report?
A Quality of Earnings (QOE) report is a detailed financial analysis used in mergers, acquisitions, and business sales to evaluate the true earnings and financial health of a company. Unlike basic financial statements, a QOE report...
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14:02
Financial Statement Reporting: What’s Best for a Business Sale?
When preparing to sell your business, the quality of your financial statement reporting can directly influence buyer confidence, valuation, and deal terms. In this episode, we break down the three primary levels of reporting offered by CPA firm...
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11:19
Selling Your Business; What You Don’t Know Can Cost You
Selling your business is one of the most significant financial and personal decisions you will ever make, and what you do not know can directly impact your outcome. In this episode, we explore why preparation is everything. From building a comp...
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12:44
Closing Statement in M&A: Essential Insights for Business Sellers
In mergers and acquisitions, the closing statement is one of the most important financial documents a seller will encounter. This podcast explains how the closing statement outlines the purchase price, distribution of proceeds, debt and debt li...
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14:02
Transition Planning for Your Business, Your Family, and Yourself
You have invested decades building a business that supports your family, employees, customers, and community. Yet without a clear transition plan, everything you have created could be left to chance. In this episode, we explore why transition p...
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11:36
Business Owners, as Sellers, Be Aware of the “Proprietary Deal”
When selling your business, a proprietary deal may seem efficient and appealing, but this podcast explains why owners should approach these offers with caution. A proprietary deal grants one buyer exclusive access before the company is exposed ...
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12:15
Are Canadian Business Owners Getting Older?
Canadian business owners are getting older, and this demographic shift is reshaping the future of privately held companies across the country. In this episode, we explore what an aging ownership base means for succession planning, business valu...
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12:13
The Owner of My Workplace Is Thinking of Selling Their Business
If the owner of your workplace is thinking about selling, this podcast explores how you, as a senior leader or key employee, could step forward as the buyer. With a significant wave of business transitions underway as many owners approach retir...
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11:35
Buying Out a Partner? Why Owners Should Get a Business Valuation
Buying out a partner is a pivotal moment in any company’s life cycle, and knowing what your business is truly worth is essential before making that move. This podcast explores why an independent business valuation provides more than just a numb...
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12:29
How Entrepreneurs Can Avoid Outsmarting Themselves
This podcast is designed for entrepreneurs who want to grow, protect, and eventually exit their business without falling into the trap of trying to do everything themselves. It explores how confidence and past success, while essential to entrep...
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11:20
My Children Are Not Interested in Taking Over My Business.
This podcast speaks directly to Canadian business owners facing the reality that their children are not interested in taking over the family business. It offers reassurance that this situation is increasingly common and explains why it does not...
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11:26
Wealth Manager; Is Your Clients Exit Strategy on the Agenda?
This podcast is designed for Wealth Managers who work closely with entrepreneurial clients and want to ensure exit strategy conversations are not overlooked. It highlights the massive shift taking place among Canadian business owners as many tr...
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12:45
What Factors Impact Business Valuation for Canadian Businesses?
This podcast helps Canadian business owners understand the key factors that influence business valuation when preparing for an exit. It breaks down how buyers assess value and why some companies command higher multiples than others. By understa...
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10:35
How to Attract Financial versus Strategic Buyers
This podcast helps Canadian business owners understand how to position their company to attract the right type of buyer during a sale process. It explains the fundamental differences between financial buyers and strategic buyers, and why each g...
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13:09
What Are the Reporting Gaps That Lead an M&A Deals Collapse
This podcast helps Canadian business owners understand why accurate financial reporting is critical to a successful M&A transaction. It explains how reporting gaps can quickly erode trust, reduce valuation, or cause a deal to fall apart dur...
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13:13
How to Structure a Sale for Valuation and Sellers Liquidity
This podcast helps Canadian business owners understand how deal structure directly impacts both valuation and seller liquidity during a business sale. It explains why the way a transaction is paid for can be just as important as the headline pu...
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11:03
Canadian Business Owners: Preparing for a Successful Exit
This podcast is designed to help Canadian business owners prepare for a successful and well planned exit from their company. It focuses on the critical steps that can protect financial security, support long term goals, and reduce stress during...
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12:17
Business Owners: Why Start Planning Months Before Your Exit
This podcast explains why business owners who start planning their exit months in advance consistently achieve stronger outcomes. It highlights how early preparation gives sellers more control over timing, value, and deal structure, while reduc...
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10:49
Financial Gaps to Address 24 Months Ahead of Selling a Business
This podcast focuses on the most important financial gaps business owners should address at least 24 months before selling. It helps founders understand why early preparation plays such a critical role in valuation and how unresolved financial ...
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13:54
Key Financial Levers That Increase Business Valuation
This podcast breaks down the key financial levers that directly influence business valuation during the exit phase. It is designed to help founders understand how buyers assess value and which financial drivers matter most when determining pric...
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11:58
Common Issues Found in Due Diligence and What Sellers Should Fix
This podcast explores the most common issues buyers uncover during due diligence and why they so often determine whether a deal moves forward or falls apart. It is designed to help founders understand what buyers are really looking for when the...
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13:14
The One Thing to Increase Your Exit Valuation
This podcast focuses on the single most important driver founders can influence today to increase their exit valuation: recurring revenue. It explains why buyers place such a premium on predictability and how stable revenue streams reduce perce...
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