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The Baratelli Institute · Mentoring at Scale · Selling a Business

Sell the business. Keep what it’s worth.

You don’t decide what your business is worth — the buyer and the buyer’s lender do, from your numbers. This is how you show them the real number.

Most owners sell for too little — not because the business is weak, but because the tax return is built to hide earnings, the price was a hope instead of a multiple, or the deal died in diligence. The guide and the workbook with it are your CFO for the sale: recast your financials to true owner benefit, set a price a buyer can finance, survive the buyer’s quality-of-earnings review, and walk away with what the business is actually worth — after tax.

Prepare & price the sale

Sell the Business, Get Paid

Recast to real owner benefit, price to a financeable multiple, build the data room and CIM, and see your after-tax net proceeds — the whole sell-side package on your own numbers.

Buying instead?

The other side of the table

If you’re the buyer, not the seller, the 7(a) Acquisition toolkit builds the loan package that gets the deal financed — the recast, the valuation, the coverage.

The sale price is not what you keep. After-tax net proceeds — asset vs. stock sale, the goodwill split, any §1202/QSBS exclusion, an installment note, and state tax — is the number that matters. The workbook builds it, so you negotiate the structure, not just the headline number.
Built to work in, not write on

The workbook is a live Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) file — sixteen tabs that carry your numbers forward from recast to a one-page deal summary. The CIM and teaser are editable Microsoft Word (.docx) templates. The dynamic foundation you build your sale on — not a paper guide to read.

For brokers, M&A advisors & CPAs

A prepared seller is a faster, cleaner close. Put your name on these tools and send your clients here — they come back recast, valued, and diligence-ready, and the relationship stays yours.

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