Across
- 2. expenses in the profit and loss statement that a new owner will not expect to have once they have taken control of the business
- 4. ownership in a business
- 5. someone who facilitates the sale of a business
- 7. the acronym for the total financial benefit that a single full time owner-operator would derive from a business on an annual basis.
- 10. the name of the non-binding agreement you submit when first making an offer for a business
- 11. an agreement that prohibits sellers from entering into a competing venture post-acquisition
- 12. a private file that is shared with buyers and contains a company's business overview & financial information
- 14. when a buyer purchases a business only for its assets and not its shares
- 15. a calculation used to value a business's sale price based on the seller's discretionary earnings
- 16. shortened term for business expenses on fixed assets
Down
- 1. acronym for the business's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization
- 2. another term for buying a business
- 3. a deal structure that allows buyers to finance the sale of a business directly from the seller
- 6. a deal structure that allows buyers to pay a portion of the sale price to the sellers based on business performance after the acquisition
- 8. the "fact checking" investigative process that occurs during the acquisition period
- 9. acronym for the average dollar amount spent by customers on product orders; an important metric when determining a business's value
- 13. acronym for the measurement of a company's financial performance based on the last twelve months from the reporting date