Organizational Structure
As businesses evolve they tend to move into a structure where value is attached to individual books rather than to the entity as a whole. To avoid this you need to set up a structure that is a business unit instead of just an accounting conduit. This webcast explains how improper structure can be dangerous for the ongoing growth of your business.
Building your business the right way is an important element to ensuring sustainability. Unfortunately, there are key elements many business owners forget to take into consideration – including compensation structure, equity pathways, cash flow, and entity set-up.
Business Growth | Entity & Business Structure | Internal Succession
Revenue Strength vs. Enterprise Strength
In this webcast we explores the differences between revenue strength and enterprise strength how each contributes to the value of your business. We explain how paying consideration to factors that drive both the cash flow and equity value of your business will your exit planning options open down the road.
Business Growth | Value & Benchmarking | Entity & Business Structure
The Three Pillars of a Successful Advisory Business
FP Transitions President & Founder, David Grau Sr., JD, dives into the three pillars of a strong advisory business and explores how each one is integral to the ongoing growth and sustainability of the enterprise. Working on the foundations of your business is an integral process that both encourages and supports growth in a perpetual cycle of success and profitability.
Business Growth | Entity & Business Structure
Defining Your Enterprise: Taking Stock & Moving Forward
Whatever the goal, we have found a targeted terminology helpful for classifying and discussing financial advisory enterprises. It allows us to offer tailored advice to each and every client, and to be as precise as possible in addressing different areas of growth and sustainability. These industry-specific descriptions of "job/book," "practice," "business," and "firm" in this post are guides for determining where you are today, where you’d like to be five or ten years from now, and what will be required in the meantime.
In this Roundtable Talk, FPT experts Ericka Langone, JD, and Eric Fettig discuss the details of setting up (or restructuring) your entity to suit your business' unique situation, including: documentation, filing timelines, and key players in the process. They highlight the importance of proper entity elections to support your overall short-term and long-term business goals.
Roundtable Talk - Benefits of Proper Entity StructureEMS Exclusive Resource
FPT Experts Ericka Langone, JD and Eric Fettig discuss the benefits of proper entity, including liability protections, governance for business leadership and operations, structure and value for future ownership, and tax treatments that make sense for your specific enterprise.
Entity & Business Structure | Next Gen | Tax & Regulatory Issues
8 Considerations for Your Merger Strategy
You and the rest of the ownership team have decisions to make about the merger process itself, as well as decisions to make about the business you’ll create. These details should not be left for discovery and sorted out mid-process, but should be understood and planned for before implementing your merger strategy.
Business Growth | Entity & Business Structure
Roundtable Talk - Mergers: Prepping Beyond the NumbersExperts Rod Boutin, JD and Ericka Langone, JD explore preparation beyond determining value. They highlight the importance of reconciling the expectations and goals of all parties, the considerations that may warrant an assigned premium share value, and the benefits of a holistic approach to the entire merger process.
Governance & Control for Shifting Ownership EMS Exclusive Roundtable Talk
FPT transactions experts Rod Boutin, JD and Ericka Langone, JD discuss common areas of governance and control that many owners (existing and future) have concerns about during any (re)structuring or additions to the ownership of a financial services business.
Revenue Splits : Not a Succession Plan
Even with all the modern tools of practice valuations and equity management solutions, some financial advisors are still choosing to use revenue splits as a compensation structure and succession plan. As an independent financial advisory owner, this is a poor and shortsighted business decision for several reasons.
Internal Succession | Entity & Business Structure | Compensation
Ship vs. Liferaft - What Are You Building?
When it comes to understanding an "equity-centric" business model the structural details can be difficult to grasp. The parable of ship vs. liferaft will help to illustrate the problems many independent financial advisors face when trying to evolve their structures as they progress from a job to a practice, and ultimately, to a business.
Organizational Growth - Client Success StoryUnexpected circumstances forced Floyd to quickly reduce his work hours at his firm, Cornerstone Wealth, from 45 to 20 hrs a week. Too young to retire, Floyd incorporated existing staff into the ownership structure to ensure his business not only survived, but thrived. In this client success story the team discusses the transition and their new ownership mentality.