Essential steps to eliminate business risk, improve value and increase profits
The Business Owners’ Special Series (B.O.S.S.) No. 42 Essential steps to eliminate business risk, improve value and increase profits Business …
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Partner, Advisory
Location: San Francisco
Services: Business Transformation, Exit Planning Strategy, Forensic Accounting Litigation Support, Forensic Accounting for Family Law and Divorce, Outsourced Accounting
Industries: Consumer Business, Professional Services
Rich is a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) and member of the Exit Planning Institute, who has been helping business owners succeed for over 25 years. His professional mission is to lead business owners to maximize business value, be exit-ready at all times, and lead business owners to a successful transition and exit from their business.
“Business owners are far too focused on the day-to-day events within their business, and they wait too long to focus on building their exit value. This requires a change of mindset and behavior. Business owners should be focused on building exit value every day, and for that reason he teaches clients how to employ the concept of value acceleration:
When a business owner believes that exit seems too far in the future to address now, I explain that procrastination results in lost value, and extreme procrastination can result in irrevocable loss of value. Value acceleration is something business owners should be focused on every day. We have a process for teaching business owners exactly how to do that.”
Rich is the author of the Business Owners Special Series, a library of articles on value acceleration, exit planning and succession planning.
Richard Gunn holds an active CPA license in California.
Rich is a crime fiction junky. He also seeks out cutting-edge music in local venues, and he loves small, independent theater and plays. You may spot Rich riding around San Francisco on his steel-frame bike, which he rides about 300 to 400 miles per month (mostly while commuting) or enjoying fine coffee and craft beer.
BA/Accounting – Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
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