Five Challenges of Liquidating a Business

Help your clients anticipate and prepare.

By Anthony Glomski

My years of experience helping successful entrepreneurs, combined with my research and interviews with experts in the area of successful business exits, have helped me to identify five key financial challenges that must be addressed by entrepreneurs who are planning to cash out of their businesses.

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The objective is to help business owners make a smooth and successful transition from where they are today to where they want to be post-exit.
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Why and How to Stress Test Client Plans

https://cpatrendlines.com/2021/03/29/use-financial-stress-testing-to-get-more-business/What if? Better to ask now.

By Anthony Glomski

I wrote this series of posts to help successful entrepreneurs and their advisors learn how they can build on their impressive accomplishments and utilize their wealth to achieve even greater things going forward – for themselves, for their families, for their communities and for the causes they care about.

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The fact is, your clients should take their financial health as seriously as they take their physical health. One of the best ways to ensure that their financial plan is strong enough to withstand whatever the market, the economy and life circumstances throw their way is to perform a regular “stress test” of their financial plan.
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Three Questions for Clients Who Want to Manage Their Own Wealth

Businessman sitting on stacks of paper currencyMaybe they can. But should they?

By Anthony Glomski
Your $5 Million High-Net-Worth Practice

I have told you that your business owner clients will face new challenges, new transitions and new opportunities as they navigate their way through a liquidity event and emerge on the other side. I also have emphasized that you must do everything in your power to help them preserve, protect and maintain the wealth that they have worked so hard to build.

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Nassim Taleb, author of the bestselling book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” argues that we can not only learn to navigate these frightening and overwhelming events, but learn to become stronger as a result of them and to take advantage of the opportunities they provide.
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How to Build Your Team of Experts

Plus the four attributes each must have.chart illustrating a sample professional network

By Anthony Glomski
Your $5 Million High-Net-Worth Practice

Take a look at the chart below showing an example of the type of professional network to use in your client’s financial life. You can see that the personal CFO is at the center, acting as the coordinator of the team and the single point of contact. His or her primary relationships are with the four other core experts: private client lawyer, accountant, life insurance specialist and the property and casualty agent. These team members then have relationships with the other types of specialists you may need from time to time.

 

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Finding the right people to help

If you are building your own expert team from scratch, you will need to do your homework and identify good candidates in the key areas in which you need help.
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Five Experts Your Wealth Management Team Needs

Woman's hand pressing words "ASK AN EXPERT"Plus a few more specialists for occasional circumstances.

By Anthony Glomski

Entrepreneurs and other successful people typically have complex and varied financial needs. The most successful among them typically work with five key professionals on a regular basis (see below). These are the experts who have the capabilities to solve the majority of the investment and advanced planning issues your clients are likely to face as they pursue the next stage of their lives:

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  1. Wealth manager
  2. Private client lawyer
  3. Accountant/CPA firm – ideally, a firm large enough to have multiple partners and a deep bench
  4. Life insurance specialist, who is knowledgeable about current estate tax mitigation strategies
  5. Property and casualty specialist

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