{"id":47,"date":"2016-04-01T09:28:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T09:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsw-business.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2016-04-02T01:25:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T01:25:54","slug":"why-so-many-businesses-dont-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.nsw-business.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/01\/why-so-many-businesses-dont-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"Why so many businesses don’t sell?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a company searching for target acquisitions I have looked at a number of businesses in the past where the owners are wanting to sell or exit the business. Here are my top 5 reasons why a business does not sell.<\/p>\n

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  1. Unprepared Financial Statements for at least 3 years<\/li>\n
  2. Incorrect and unrealistic add backs listed<\/li>\n
  3. Asking price of the business is too high<\/li>\n
  4. Too many personal items listed within the accounts<\/li>\n
  5. Business structure is too complex<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you are looking at skipping a lot of headaches and would like to deal directly with a business acquisition company who can give you an indication of fair market value quickly and without impacting existing staff Contact Us<\/a> for a confidential discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As a company searching for target acquisitions I have looked at a number of businesses in the past where the owners are wanting to sell or exit the business. Here… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-selling-your-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"lifterlms_certificate_background":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"ribosome-excerpt-thumbnail":false,"ribosome-excerpt-thumbnail-rounded":false,"ribosome-recent-posts-thumbnail":false,"ribosome-related-post-thumbnail":false,"ribosome-slider-recent-posts":false,"llms_notification_icon":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"http:\/\/blog.nsw-business.com\/index.php\/author\/peter\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"As a company searching for target acquisitions I have looked at a number of businesses in the past where the owners are wanting to sell or exit the business. Here... Read more »","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7wQ-L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.nsw-business.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.nsw-business.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.nsw-business.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nsw-business.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nsw-business.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nsw-business.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nsw-business.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.nsw-business.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nsw-business.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.nsw-business.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}