Top 5 Regulatory Traps in M&A Consultants see that SMEs Don’t
Selling a business is the culmination of years of hard work, and the focus is understandably on achieving the best possible price. Yet, what many small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)
Month: October 2025
Managing Psycho-social risk at work!
To say we live in a different world at work than the workforce I joined in 1980 is a huge understatement. Many of the changes have been necessary and very welcome. Nevertheless, we are seeing significant and quite rapid increases in the administrative burden with increasing responsibility placed on business, which disproportionality burdens small business.
Valuation Multiples SME Owners Need to Know for Business Sales and Acquisitions
Every business owner eventually asks the big question: “What is my business actually worth?” Too often, the answer comes from gut feeling, emotional attachment, or what a friend sold their
Life expectancy improvements have been astounding!
As one of the last of the baby boomers, born in 1964, and now having been in business for 38 years (anniversary was 21st September), I was reflecting - an activity that seems to be increasing with age! My life expectancy in 1964 was 67.6. To prove the point when I was just 6 my grandfather on my Dad’s side, John McGrath, tragically died suddenly from a heart attack age 66, a few months after retiring!