"Choose Foresight because transferring a business shouldn’t be a struggle."

Buying or selling a business requires a complex combination of skills. It may be your first experience in this realm, but it’s certainly not new to us. We take a complex process and make it simple for you!

Foresight has handled more than 500 business transfers between every type of buyer and seller, including family members, key employees, regional and national acquirers, and new business owners. We’ll be there every step of the way to help you protect your accomplishments, both past and future.

Business Sale or Transfer

You have worked hard to build your business and your reputation within the community.  It is important that your accomplishments be protected during any kind of business transfer.  Foresight’s focus is to maximize your “quality of life after transfer”.   We are sensitive to the individual needs of each business owner we serve and will ensure that the timing and nature of the transfer are appropriate.

We know what needs to be done to facilitate a successful business transfer:

• Appraise the business and determine sale-ability

• Determine if the value could be increased by making operating changes prior to placing the business on the market, or whether to proceed immediately to sale

• Perform a tax analysis

• Consideration of tax strategies or identifying need for tax deferral methods helps determine the most viable type of buyers

• Solicit buyers

• Using a carefully prepared prospectus and Non-Disclosure Agreement, we offer a Letter of Intent (LOI) to only the most qualified potential buyers

• Close quickly!

• After establishing final due-diligence points, Foresight staff coordinates the transaction, working closely with your attorney, accountant, the buyer and the lender to ensure closing occurs as promptly as possible!

Business Acquisition

Many funeral directors buy a business because they already enjoy being a funeral director, or come from within a family business and are ready to take control.  Whether you are buying your first funeral home or adding another funeral home to your existing group, doing it the right way each time should always be the objective.   When Foresight represents buyers, we help you identify whether the time is right for you, and what type of business is right for an acquisition before you start shopping.

Foresight will guide you through the stages of acquisition, including:

1. Identifying the fair market value of the target enterprise
2. Understanding the current cash flow of both the buyer’s and seller’s
   original operations
3. Developing a model that projects the cash flow of the anticipated new or
   combined operation
4. Structuring the offer
5. Identifying any financing needs
6. Assisting the client’s attorney in drafting the purchase agreements
7. Assisting the client’s accountant in performing on-site due-diligence and preparation of closing schedules
8. Assisting the client, attorney and accountant in the final closing.

After the closing, Foresight can be retained as a professional advisor to help you make good business decisions in your new endeavor.

Contact Foresight to learn how we can help you with buying, selling, merging, or transferring a business at (800) 426-0165 or email to f4sight@f4sight.com for more information.