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Growing by Acquisition: A key factor that drives successful acquisitions

February 15, 2018August 16, 2018 by Chris Risey

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Growing By Acquisiton: A Key Factor That Drives Successful Acquisitions. When targeting an acquisition it’s pretty easy to get lost in the numbers. After all, financial analysis is critical for acquisition financing, valuing the acquisition and seeing how the Company can add financial or enterprise value to the current business.…

What Drives Up Multiples in Enterprise Value?

February 5, 2018March 6, 2018 by Chris Risey

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Corporate Financial Planning: What Drives up Multiples? Last newsletter, I provided a short (as I could) explanation of how to calculate enterprise value (EV) and why EV is an important topic for internal planning, valuing private company acquisitions, management buyouts and partner buyouts. A common follow-up question I get related to EV is What…

Calculating Enterprise Value: Corporate Financial Planning

January 10, 2018March 6, 2018 by Chris Risey

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Corporate Financial Planning and Calculating Enterprise Value Calculating Enterprise Value: A key aspect to corporate financial planning is looking beyond just driving revenue growth to ensure the Company is growing its value. There are multiple ways to value a business and they are all academically correct; however, there is one methodology,…

What’s Your Available Cash? An important, overlooked Financial Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

December 12, 2017August 16, 2018 by Chris Risey

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Available Cash: What's Your Available Cash? An important, overlooked FINANCIAL KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Available Cash? I recently got asked by a CFO a question, I thought worth sharing. "How much cash should we maintain on our balance sheet in our business’? I believe its good for companies to have…

Leveraged Buyout Single Buyer – Get Quality Financial Projections!

October 27, 2017March 6, 2018 by Chris Risey

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Leveraged Buyout Single Buyer - Management Buyout Consulting Leveraged Buyout Single Buyer: Provide Multi-Year Financial Projections: Owners of growing companies often get approached by prospective buyers, even when they are not looking to sell. Suddenly, they are faced with a leveraged buyout from a single buyer. But owners that engage…

Using Capital To Grow Your Business

September 27, 2017August 16, 2018 by Chris Risey

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Using Capital To Grow Your Business As Featured on Texas Business Radio Texas Business RadioFeatured Chris Risey, President of Lantern Capital Advisors as part of their national advisor showcase to discuss how entrepreneurs are using capital to grow their business. Lantern Capital Advisors helps clients understand their options and match their financing…

Get More Capital From Your Bank - Example

Getting More From Your Bank – Example

September 27, 2017March 6, 2018 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Getting More From Your Bank - Example In the last post, I made the point that if you want more capital from your bank and they won’t give it you, then then go out and get financing proposals from another bank and your existing bank is likely to step up…

Getting More Capital Out of Your Bank

August 25, 2017March 6, 2018 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Getting More Capital Out of Your Bank Growing companies often struggle to get enough capital to grow the way they want. Its not uncommon for business owners to wine and dine their banker then ask for a credit increase and be denied. A way to change that dynamic is to…

Determining Value Early On is a Good Idea for Business Partners

June 7, 2017March 27, 2018 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Partner Buyout: Determining Value Early On is a Good Idea for Business Partners I was recently asked if I could help a company develop a valuation methodology for their business so that if one partner wanted to buyout the other, they would already have an agreed up on formula valuing…

What’s your EBITDA?

June 1, 2017March 6, 2018 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

What’s your EBITDA? When I give speeches I like to wrap up the presentation by doing a group exercise where the participants have to look at a simple set of financial statements and calculate a Company’s EBITDA (earnings before taxes depreciation and amortization). This is the most commonly used financial…

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