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Download the Planning Template and work to complete it as you listen to the presentations in each section.

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Your owner-based goals (financial, values-based, legacy) are foundational for the design and implementation of a successful exit plan. This section will help you in clarifying and establishing your goals.

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An essential element of a successful exit plan is an accurate financial gap analysis. You need to know if there is a financial gap between what everything you have now is worth, and how much $$$$ you will require when you exit. Most small business owners will need to fill the gap with growing the value of the business.

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For most business owners and their families, it will be important for the business to continue if the owner is unexpectedly unavailable due to death or permanent incapacity. It is important to plan now.

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With the ExitMap® Assessment score yourself in these four key planning areas: 1) Finance. 2) Planning. 3) Profit/Revenue. 4) Operations.

Access whitepapers on various exit planning topics.

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