When Selling
The best approach when selling your business is to make a list of all the items so there is no confusion about what is being sold. This includes isolating and reporting individually any real estate, inventory, fixtures, furniture and equipment, leasehold improvements, as well as assets that are not part of the sale. Additionally, consider making a list of the current liabilities of the business and against that list, note whether it will expire when the business changes ownership, stays with the seller or will transfer to the buyer. Also, a better idea is to completely remove any personal or special items that will not be sold as part of business. This removes any ambiguity and becomes one less tension point in the transaction. Once this is done, one of the first steps to selling the business is to get an appraisal on the business as a going concern. If you're the owner of the business you may have an opinion about what the assets are worth but that opinion will not be acceptable ...