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What Is “Mergers and Acquisitions?”

Mergers and acquisitions is an overarching term used to describe the consolidation of company assets through financial transactions including mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, tender offers, purchase of assets, and management restructuring.

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Often, companies need the assistance of M&A advisory to help facilitate these transactions. Outsourced accounting firms and law firms can provide valuable insight throughout these negotiations to ensure the transition goes smoothly for all involved parties.

How Do I Understand Mergers and Acquisitions?

When one company takes over another and a transfer of ownership occurs, the purchase is known as an acquisition. A merger, however, describes the combination of two businesses of approximately the same size.…

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Expanding Your Restaurant Business: 3 Things to Keep in Mind

You’re turning out the best food you’ve ever made. You have diners lining up to compliment you on your flavours, professionalism and turnaround. And the Google reviews are in: your business is a certifiable local hit.

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Where do you go from here? If you’re like most enterprising restaurant owners in this country, your thoughts turn to expansion. How can you get your locally-loved product into hungry mouths in other neighbourhoods, other cities, perhaps even other countries?

Expansion takes planning and consideration. Expand in the wrong way – or too quickly – and you could risk over-extending.…

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How Businesses Can Avoid Workplace Retaliation

When an employer punishes an employee for exercising their rights, this is known as workplace retaliation. This punishment can be any action that may be construed as adverse and hinder an employee from pursuing legal action. Workplace retaliation can happen for a variety of reasons, but sexual harassment and racial accusations are two of the most common.

Workplace retaliation claim

However, even though it happens a lot, it’s illegal for your employer to retaliate against an employee for filing a sexual harassment or a racial discrimination complaint. Retaliation charges are usually harder to drop than the original claim.

Businesses often find themselves walking into a retaliation complaint due to easily avoidable mistakes.…

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Effective Ways to Reduce Customer Churn

Every day, companies lose customers. The average business loses about 20% of its customer base each year. However, there are effective ways to reduce customer churn and retain as many valuable customers as possible. Here’s a look at the benefits of managing churn.

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Increase Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)

A company’s CLV is the amount of money a business expects to earn from each customer throughout their relationship together. If you can increase your average customer lifetime, then you are increasing your chance for revenue growth.

According to Harvard Business Review, you should aim for an average customer lifetime that exceeds the industry average by at least 50%.…

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How to Make the Most of Small Business Success

Many businesses naturally undergo ups and downs. There will be episodes of a great boom while others will be sluggish. This is usually precipitated by various factors such as prevailing economic conditions, changing consumption patterns, and internal factors, among others.

Small business success

If your business is making a killing and enjoying a period of tremendous success, you should take advantage of such times to compensate for low periods. Here are five tips on how you can make the most of small business success.

Manage Your Personal Debts Better

Personal debts can cripple your progress if there is a huge cash outlay to settle personal debts such as a mortgage or student loan.…

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8 Essentials For Remote Working

Remote working is becoming the norm and that means more people will need to learn how to work from home. While some workers may have spent time working from home on occasion, full-time work from home roles are becoming more popular for employers. There are a lot of benefits both for the employee and the employer when they leverage the power of a work from home base.

Remote working

When you’re the one working from home for the first time, it’s critical to think about the following essentials. They’ll help set you up for success.

1. Dedicated Office Space

Working from home comes with a lot of distractions.…

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Maximizing Success of Large-Scale Business

If there’s one thing the previous year and a half has taught us, it’s that nothing is certain. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted businesses and industries worldwide, crippling some industries, shutting the doors of various companies, and changing lives forever. Not only were small businesses and startups impacted, but large, international brands felt the pinch of 2020 and the restrictions on trade.

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Companies and brands globally had to scramble to adjust their business and strategies to cater to a new type of customer and to remain relevant in the unfamiliar landscape. Companies not only had to alter their offerings, operations, and processes but had to also shift employee management and overall infrastructure within the company.…

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How to Manage your Debt

Just came across a friend, and she told me she had gotten into a debt of $100K! I was stunned, and I supposedly believe anyone would. Someone who lives the same life as me has gotten into such a web, and how is that possible. I am guessing a lot of us get caught in it, and somehow it just happens. Everyone has a high probability to fall here, be it someone who earns thousands or billions.

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Why Do People Get Caught in the Debt Cycle?

What triggers this situation in people’s lives? I am pretty sure no one wants to purposely get into it, but it happens anyway.…

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How to Deal with a Toxic Co-worker

You come across different types of people throughout your career. You might connect to some individuals on a deep level, making them your work best friend. On the other hand, you might also meet some people that make your workplace a living hell. When you’re bothered about a co-worker that has a significant impact on your mental health, you might be dealing with someone toxic.

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Whether your co-worker is being toxic on purpose or unknowingly, it can alter how you feel at work. There are six types of toxic employees, including the slacker, gossip, lone wolf, emotional mess, and close-minded know-it-all.…

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Creating a Workplace Health Model

In recent months, you might be up at night, thinking about the biggest mistakes you can make as a business owner.

It turns out that many mistakes are entirely preventable.

Workplace health model

If you’ve been grappling with these concerns, now is a good time to set your course in a more positive direction. In the process, you could just help yourself to some restful nights and rejuvenating sleep.

Set Up a Company-Wide Health Priority

Even if you are a small business owner, keep your eye on the health and welfare of your employees. You don’t have to be a major company to offer health education classes, set up a workplace health model.…

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