Business Succession Planning: An Owner's Manual

With support from The Cleveland Foundation, we have published a new book on business succession planning Business Succession Planning: An Owners Manual. The book provides business owners with basic information and worksheets that enable the development of an initial business succession plan. It is designed following a 5-step process that includes:

Defining goals and objectives, for your business and yourself (and family)
Determining how much your company is worth
Exploring available options for selling or transferring your business
Developing and implementing your succession plan
Developing a personal plan for the next stage of your life

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Selling Your Business To Your Employees: AN OVERVIEW OF EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP MODELS & STRATEGIES

John Logue, Bill McIntyre, the staff of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center and the Cooperative Development Center at Kent State University have published this book with support from The Cleveland Foundation.
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If you are a business owner looking for an exit strategy that can provide you with:

Significant tax savings
Flexibility in how and when you exit the business
A chance to reward employees that helped you build the business
All while priming the company for future growth

then one of the employee ownership models may be the right fit for you.

This manual describes the common employee ownership strategies in non-technical, easy to understand language, and will help you to explore which option is right for you.

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