We aim to be trusted advisors to our clients for the long term. Even if a company is years away from contemplating a transaction, we believe that it is never too early to start thinking about exit strategy solutions.
Through our Reach Your Peak Exit Planning Process and subsequent plan, we work with company shareholders to help address areas of your business that can build a value builder system and make your business more attractive to buyers.
Our authentic approach to exit strategy solutions involves strategically optimizing areas of your business that bridge the gap between what your business is worth today versus what you need to sell it for to retire.
Bickimer Electric is one of our favorite success stories. Their business was in need of exit planning and management consulting services. Hear straight from Mike Bickimer what it was like working with the Final Ascent Team.
Our Exit Planning advisors will work with you to enhance the value of your business to ensure a successful business transition. By utilizing an exit planning strategy, you will increase your business' marketability and value.
As a business owner you face one inescapable fact: at some point in time, you will leave your business - either by choice or force of circumstance. The crucial question is whether the process will leave you wealthy and satisfied or disappointed and regretful.
We advice middle market business owners to create exit ready companies that attract buyers and sell for maximum value, creating wealth and a lasting legacy for generation
Final Ascent is changing the way that businesses are sold by aggressively focusing on the needs of mid market business owners. Our advisors have decades of experience advising clients through the business sale process, and we've learned that business owners get to the date of the sale and consistently say two things::
(1) if I knew back then what I know now, I would have done it differently; and
(2) I've reached the finish line, but now I don't know what to do.
The industry has done a disservice to these clients, because high powered advisors choose to only focus on the sale, thereby ignoring the needs of business owners both before and afterwards.
Why? Simple--for the advisor, the sale is the most profitable part of the exit process. For the business owner, only focusing on the sale is treacherous.
Clients at Final Ascent receive a team of advisors experienced in everything a business owner needs when exiting. Our exit strategy solutions will help the business owner to get their company "built to sell." An M&A Advisor will market the company in a competitive format to reach the highest value. And a Wealth Planner will help to transform the value builder system into personal life value.
Together, this team will safely guide clients through the final ascent, to build the most sellable business, the most attractive exit, and wealth that will secure families for generations to come.
Less Than 10% Of Businesses Are Ready To Sell For What The Owner Expects.
At some point, every business owner will leave their business. For most business owners, this is a once in a lifetime event. It’s critically important because the average business owner has 50-90% of their net worth tied up in their business. Most businesses are not saleable today for what the business owner expects.
Solid Exit Strategy Solutions Involve Maximizing The Value Of Your Business.
Exit planning is the development of a strategy and a roadmap that enables the business owner to maximize value and leave their business on their own terms. Less Than 5% of business owners sell their business when and how they want to. Exit planning ensures the owner gets maximum value.
Our Exit Planning advisors will work with you to enhance the value of your business to ensure a successful business transition. By utilizing an exit planning strategy, you will increase your business' marketability and value.
To prepare your business for sale, you have to know where you are and where you need to go. In this phase, you will take our 13-minute assessment, which gives you a value score on a 1 to 100 scale. Businesses that score an 80 or above have been proven to sell for 71% more than businesses below that score. We will review the assessment results with you and develop action items on eight key value drivers, helping you prepare for your final ascent.
Getting off to a good start is essential in any endeavor, and what gets planned gets done. It is vital to layout a road map for success and communicate that plan clearly so everyone is on the same page. Level-setting expectations and preparing for the journey ahead sets you on the right path to reach your summit.
We’ll evaluate and document processes for operating and scaling your business. This gives buyers confidence that they can scale your business without depending on the owner. Using the value builder system, we navigate a series of modules and exercises designed to get your organization “built to sell” and increase the value of your business. We address customer net promoter score, organizational scale, new products/services/markets, and more.
Buyers require an extensive amount of review and consideration. Preparing all of the documentation required to be ready (and packaged) to sell a business can be complex and, oftentimes, frustrating. Business owners must maintain momentum and keep their business on track to achieve their monthly and annual goals set forth in their projections. We will assess your accounting records and clean them up, unleashing the power of your financials. We will implement cash flow forecasting and a financial management reporting system with scoreboards, key metric analysis, and industry benchmarking.
The biggest challenge, now, is maintaining your momentum. Meeting goals, exceeding your revenue and gross margin targets, keeping costs down, and more. It’s easy to lose focus at the top, which is why this phase is so vital.
After All 5 Phases, You Are Well On Your Way To A Successful Future, Next Venture, Or Retirement.
Our team has decades of experience in starting, building, growing, and selling businesses.
Using our proven value building system, we achieve these goals.
We've worked with hundreds of business owners to build value into their businesses, sell their businesses and ensure their legacy lasts through retirement and beyond.
After analyzing more than 30,000 businesses, companies with a Value Builder Score of 80 or more received offers that are 71% higher than the average business. Working side-by-side with you, we will help you improve the value of your company.
If our system didn't work, we wouldn't offer it! We are selective, however the businesses we work with achieve success in a relatively short amount of time.
You don't spend decades in an industry and not develop strong connections. We have dedicated buyers, investors, and industry partners that can accelerate your exit.
It's important to work with people that you like to work with. Our team is professional, courteous and above all: honest. If it doesn't benefit you as the client, we won't even talk about it.
We Are Your Trusted Exit Authority™
Companies With $10+ Million In Revenue
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