The Complete Guide to Buying a Business

An estimated 750,000 small businesses in the U.S. change hands every year, and buying a business is a significant business transaction, involving tens (often hundreds) of thousands of dollars. Many buyers will be first-time buyers, some with no personal experience in business and often it's a once in a lifetime event--rarer than buying a home. The Complete Guide to Buying a Business provides the plain-English information, forms, and advice that readers need to get the business they want. Among the many topics the book covers · Finding the right business · Analyzing a seller's data · Arriving at a price · Preparing and signing a sales agreement · Closing the purchase · Forming a business entity · Preventing the seller from competing against the buyer The book provides all the forms readers will need to use in the process of buying a business as tear-outs and on CD-ROM.