Corporate Financial Planning Archives

Owner Liquidity White Paper

March 16, 2026March 16, 2026 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Many business owners face a growing dilemma: how to access the value they have built in their company without giving up control or selling outright. This white paper explores owner liquidity's a powerful strategy to de-risk, diversify, and achieve key financial goals while continuing to lead the company through its…

Using Enterprise Value As A Planning Tool

March 28, 2025August 6, 2025 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Abstract: Enterprise value is an important concept every business owner should understand. This video takes it a step further and suggests how enterprise value can be used as an important metric for measuring a company’s growth and how it can be used as a key tool for strategic planning. Videos…

The Value of Corporate Finance

March 24, 2025August 6, 2025 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Many accomplished entrepreneurs know little about corporate finance beyond dealing with their bank. This video shares some data that illustrates the value of better understanding corporate finance and identifies different ways corporate finance can be used to help entrepreneurs realize more value from their business. Videos highlighted here are from…

Are Dividend Recaps A Smart Move For Entrepreneurs?

October 21, 2024August 6, 2025 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

In this white paper by Chris Risey, we explore if dividend recaps are a smart move for entrepreneurs. It’s easy to see why private equity funds might do a dividend recap. But, would a dividend recap be a smart move for entrepreneurs too - even those with no intention of selling? On…

Three Key Tools of Corporate Financial Planning

April 24, 2024April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

There are a lot of different things private equity firms do ensuring investments are successful. Thankfully many of those things are things entrepreneurs can mimic for the benefit of their own company without necessarily having to buy another business or take on an outside equity partner. Utilizing the three key…

Corporate Financial Planning: The Value of a Process Change

May 9, 2023April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Corporate Financial Planning: The Value of a Business Process Change The Value of a Business Process Change: When thinking about strategies that significantly increase enterprise value, our minds tend to immediately think of strategies that grow revenues like adding a new product, investing more in sales resources or acquiring another…

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

December 12, 2022September 21, 2023 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

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…

The NFL’s Long Term Financial Goal

July 1, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

In 2010 NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell set a goal of achieving $25 billion in total revenues by 2027. At the time the league was generating $8.5 billion in annual revenue so I thought that was a pretty audacious. It equated to $1 billion increase per year in revenues until 2027.…

What Drives Up Multiples in Enterprise Value?

February 5, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Corporate Financial Planning: What Drives up Multiples? Chris Risey 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…

Calculating Enterprise Value: Corporate Financial Planning

January 10, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

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,…

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