Practical Steps To Prepare Your Business For Sale

Preparing a Business for Sale: governance, documentation and transferable value

Preparing a business for sale is about building transferable value, not quick fixes. Simon shares education-first tactics owners can implement now - governance, documented processes and value-building initiatives - to increase sale readiness over a long sales cycle.

He will explain how these actions reduce the need to compete on price, make due diligence smoother and position a business for better outcomes when Australian owners decide to engage brokers or potential buyers.

About Simon Bedard

Simon Bedard, podcast guest

Business Sales Specialist & Author

25+ years Finance, investment, energy and technology experience100+ episodes Host of the Buy Grow Sell podcast20K+ Business-owner and adviser audience2024 winner BX Best Consulting Company of the Year

Simon Bedard helps business owners build businesses they can sell.

He is the Founder and CEO of Exit Advisory Group, National Chair of the Australian Institute of Business Brokers, a Registered Business Valuer, and the author of Exit Like an Expert, endorsed by a Bain & Company advisory partner and one of Australia’s best-known economists.

If your audience includes founders, investors, business owners, or the advisers around them, you and Simon have something in common.

Simon works on the part of the business owner’s journey that decides whether all that building and growing pays off. Turning a business you own into one someone will actually buy.

On his own podcast, Buy Grow Sell, he has interviewed more than 100 founders who have sold their companies, including the one who led Swisse to a $1.7 billion exit, and people like Finder.com co-founder Fred Schebesta, and a games maker whose studios were bought by Disney, Sony and Atari. He does lots of deals himself, so he brings stories and specifics, and he is an easy, engaged guest.

Unfortunately, most owners leave their ultimate ‘pay day’ to the end.

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