Business Continuity & Succession Planning | Tide Creek Financial Group

Business Continuity and Succession Planning

Protect Your Most Valued Asset

One of the greatest challenges facing a family business is properly planning for business succession. Business owners may be too busy dealing with everyday needs to consider the tough issues of succession planning, such as:

Who will be the next operations manager?
Do I want my spouse to own the business when I am gone, or do I want my spouse to be bought out?
Which of the children will get involved in the business?
What if my business partner dies?

The list of issues that business owners should consider is lengthy and the ability of a business to recover from an event is directly related to the degree of planning that has taken place before the event occurred.

A business continuity plan is your company’s safety net and could make the difference between the business' survival or failure.

Business Valuations

Business owners may wonder why it is important to know the fair market
value of their business. Simply put, personal estate planning and business planning are intertwined to the point where estate planning cannot be correctly done without knowing the value of the largest potential asset of the
business owner.

Buy/Sell Planning

All too often, business owners rely on an “understanding” with other owners, key
employees, and family members to facilitate the succession of their business. Unfortunately, these “understandings” have the potential to turn into “misunderstandings” when the owner dies.

Key Person Insurance

Your business is only as strong as its employees. Employees contribute
to management, have a significant impact on sales, and may have a
special rapport with customers or creditors. In short, your employees are an integral part of the success of your business.

Tide Creek Financial Group does not provide qualified business valuations. For a qualified or certified business valuation, consult a properly credentialed appraiser.