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"Employee Incentive Planning"
This White Paper discusses the paths which allow a business owner to leave a company in qualified hands. Incentives can be equity-based or cash-based, but all plans handcuff employees to the business and help it to accrue value. This White Paper explores several plan options so an owner can determine which path is best.

"ESOP Opportunities"
This White Paper uses a fictional business owner to illustrate how an owner can use an ESOP to achieve three ownership objectives: 1) to cash out at fair market value; 2) to pay no taxes on the sale; and 3) to transfer the company to key employees. While examining how ESOPs work, their advantages and disadvantages, readers learn that ESOPs do not work for all owners or for every company. They do, however, provide opportunity for some owners to leave their businesses in style.

"Transferring Your Company to Key Employees"
Owners wishing to sell their businesses to management (key employees) face one unpleasant fact: their employees have no money. Nor can they borrow any - at least not in sufficient quantity to cash out the owner. The transfer methods described in this White Paper employ a long-term installment buyout of the owner or use someone else's money to affect the buyout.

"Using Short Term Key Employee Incentives to Increase the Price"
One of a business owner's greatest challenges is to attract, motivate, and keep key employees. Keeping key employees is absolutely critical, however, if the business is to be sold at the highest possible price.  This White Paper describes the design elements of a Stay Bonus Plan as well as how to convert a long-term key employee incentive plan into a short term plan.

"Value Drivers"
It is the job of every business owner to create value in his or her business prior to any transfer or sale.  Exactly how do owners do that?  Read this White Paper to learn about those characteristics (or Value Drivers) that buyers look for when deciding how much to pay for a business.

"Transferring Wealth to Children - A Primer for Business Owners?"
Successful business owners often wrestle with the issue of how to pass wealth to children in a way that minimizes - legitimately - their tax bills.  This White Paper explains to owners how such a transfer can be designed as well as:
why fixing their own financial objective precedes any transfer; and, how to determine the amount (and if that amount is too much) to be transferred. This White Paper uses a case study to illustrate the plan design and includes an explanation of GRATs.

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