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Want to Sell Your Business? Talk to a CFO First #shorts

9 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Bob Gauvreau, in a short YouTube clip, advises business owners to involve a CFO early when planning a succession or business exit. He highlights three main considerations: whether the business is saleable, how to maximize valuation, and ensuring the ongoing success and legacy of the business post-exit; the CFO is framed as integral to achieving those goals.

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So thinking of a succession plan or thinking of exiting from a business, a CFO is going to be integral to making sure that you get the maximum value out of exiting from your business. So there's a few things that we need to be considering. One Is your business actually saleable? The second component is understanding how to maximize the valuation of an exit. So a CFO is an integral partner in making sure that this component works together and that you're able to exit successfully from your business, not just with the most amount of money, and not just to make sure that the business is going to be able to be sold, but also to ensure the ongoing success and legacy that you've created in your business continues beyond your exit.