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You’ve worked Long and Hard to Make Your Business What It Is Today
Our first priority is helping you take care of yourself and your family.
We want to learn more about your personal situation
identify your dreams and goals, and understand your tolerance for risk.
What Makes Us Different...
Managing a business is time-consuming, making it difficult to plan for retirement effectively. You likely collaborate with various professionals like accountants, lawyers, and financial advisors to safeguard your business. But chances are, they haven't comprehensively discussed how their decisions impact your overall financial picture.
That's where we can help. We work with all your advisors to ensure you receive unified financial guidance, considering both your business and retirement goals.
Business Assessments
Business Valuation
Don't let uncertainty about your business's value hinder your growth or exit plans. Unlock your business's potential with a clear understanding of its worth. Our streamlined valuation tool provides precise insights, empowering you to secure optimal financing or maximize sale price.
Business Value Gap Assessment
To maximize business value, owners must identify the value gap. These gaps are the difference between a company's current and potential worth and pinpoints key areas for:
- Setting Realistic Goals
- Designing a Strategic Plan
- Identifying Ideal Exit Path
- Understanding Risk Management
- Creating Performance Metrics
Business Risk Assessment
To improve a client’s risk profile and achieve a lower cost of liability coverage premiums and expanded coverage, in collaboration with our clients, we invest the time necessary to survey and analyze operations, exposures, corporate culture and management’s priorities. Strategies are developed and implemented to mitigate risk exposure. We are committed to working towards improving our client's risk profile to offer insurance products that are efficiently priced with potentially more comprehensive coverage.
Employee Benefits Review
There’s never a wrong time to talk about employee benefits. Exploring insurance plans and package options requires you to go from insurance company to insurance company to find the right fit for your needs and goals. We’ve simplified and streamlined the process of finding the right solutions and our industry connections make it possible for us to negotiate, whenever possible, to get you the best possible rate for your desired level of benefits.
Business Planning Services
Continuity Planning
Business continuity planning helps business owners prepare for the “what if’s” in their business world. These issues frequently keep business owners awake at night wondering what could happen to their ownership interest and the business itself. Solutions include things like:
- Buy/Sell Creation & Review
- Business Continuity Instructions
- Key Person Insurance
- Wage Continuation Plans
Executive Compensation
Incentivizing executives to meet business objectives is a critical factor in designing executive compensation plans. Organizations can choose from several well-established methods to pay for the performance of executives, often with significant tax advantages to the executive and the employer.
- Executive Bonus Plans
- Phantom Stock
- Retention Bonus
- Split Dollar
- SERP – Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan
Employee Benefits & Compensation
Offering an attractive benefits package is one of the most effective ways to keep employees around. Solutions we can help you with include:
- Employer Sponsored Life / Disability
- Group Health / Dental / Vision
- 401(k) / 403 (b)
- Profit Share Plans
- Cash Balance Plans
- Defined Benefit Plans
Corporate Education
A step-by-step financial wellness program that provides employees with a foundation for financial decision-making using a holistic, personalized approach. Through a series of customizable, in-person workshops hosted at your company, that provides employees with:
- Knowledge of how to maximize their lifetime earning potential through protection, saving, and planning;
- Access to a secure, personalized website to analyze their individual financial situations; and
- Complimentary one-on-one consultation with a specialist for any employee upon request.
Exit Planning
Exit Planning is the creation and execution of a strategy allowing owners to exit their businesses on their terms and conditions. It is an established process that creates a written road map, or Exit Plan, involving the efforts of several professionals facilitated and led by an Exit Planning Advisor who ensures not only the Plan’s creation but also its timely execution. Exiting Planning does not only cover selling your business but it also if you are merging, bringing in a new partner or transferring your business to a family member. Solutions in this area which we help business owners with include:
- Valuation
- Stay Bonus Plans
- Tax Planning Strategies
- Buy-back Agreements for Minority Owners
- Bonus of Ownership
- Gift of Ownership
- Exiting owner personal planning
Our Process
We take a team approach that allows us to create a single point of contact for any business issue. Business Planning typicaly involves working hands on with your CPA and Attorney to ensure every decision is reviewed from a legal, financial, and taxation perspective.
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Collect Data
We meet with clients to understand their business and goals.- How is the business structured? Who owns it?
- Are there key employees where if something were to happen to them it would crush the business? What are you looking to accomplish?
- Plan your exit? Expand?
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Design Strategy
Based on information collected. we examine the data for the biggest issues that could hurt the business from achieving the goals of the owner
With this information we design a discussion draft of strategies to address the issues.
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Review Your Preliminary Plan
Review recommendations with the business owner to form a preliminary plan,
Begin the process of formalizing timeline and budget to achieve goals.
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Present Plan
Present the business owner final plan based on recommendations and set expectations for implementation. -
Implementation
Implement the plan and conduct at-least quarterly touch points until goals are achieved.
Our first priority is helping you take care of yourself and your family. We want to learn more about your personal situation, identify your dreams and goals, and understand your tolerance for risk. Long-term relationships that encourage open and honest communication have been the cornerstone of my foundation of success.