Succession Planning Services
Often your business represents your largest financial asset, and perhaps a lifetime of work. At some point you will be ready to leave it. Altus Exit Strategies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ARB, provides business succession planning services that can help you prepare for the successful exit you desire.
Ideally, succession planning services begin many years before you plan to exit. Whether you plan to pass your business to family members, sell your interest to a partner, sell the company to an employee group, or seek an outside buyer, the operational and financial considerations of business succession demand long-range planning and a team of CPAs and advisors who work together to educate you and help you create your own comprehensive exit plan.
How We Do It
Succession planning is more than identifying a successor owner and determining whether your business will be gifted or sold. It includes putting in place strategic, operational, and financial processes to maximize the value of your business before you make one of the most important transitions of your life.
Our Altus Exit Strategies team will take you through our Seven Step Exit Planning Preparation™ process to help you examine all of the options available to you and then guide you in creating a succession plan. The planning process may include guidance in the areas of business valuation, organizational development, profitability improvement, strategic planning, key employee incentive, asset protection, business continuity planning, and tax minimization strategies – depending on your needs. Since no one person can be a specialist in everything, we deploy a team approach to client service.
Once a business succession plan is created, the process continues as the ARB team helps you implement and reevaluate your plan to ensure that it remains relevant to your changing circumstances.
Utilizing the Seven Step Exit Planning Process™, we work to identify and accomplish your goals in exiting your business.
Align your key employees’ compensation plans with actions that will increase the value of your company.
Provide for the financial well-being of your key employees and your family should you die or become incapacitated.
Identify and implement strategies to enhance your company’s Key Value Drivers to generate a premium price for your business.
The Seven Step Exit Planning Process™
Leaving Your Business Is Inevitable
A white paper on the Exit Planning Process
Our quick 15-minute Assessment helps you evaluate your readiness. Or, learn more about our Seven Step Exit Planning Process™ and how to develop a road map and plan for exiting your business. Contact us for a complimentary consultation to discuss your goals for transitioning away from your business.
How We’re Helping Businesses with Succession
Succession Planning Services Team Leaders
David V. Jean, CPA, CCIFP, CExP | Principal
Succession Planning Services Practice Leader
David works with business owners who want to improve the value of their business before they sell through Altus Exit Strategies’ Seven Step Exit Planning Preparation™ process. He has worked with companies from $5 million to $50 million in revenue across a range of industries.