Business Buyer's Handbook: The Definitive Guide on How to Find, Analyze, Successfully Buy and Operate an Established Business for Greater Profit [Paperback]

Jim Calkins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 1998

The Business Buyer's Handbook simplifies the process of analyzing and buying an existing business. In this guide for the savvy entrepreneur, author Jim Calkins asks the question, Why start? Be smart and buy! Jim covers such territories as existing business analysis techniques, insider facts on where to look for a new businesses, what to buy, how to get help, and how to avoid rip-offs. Learn creative financing skills, take advantage of valuable HOT POINTS throughout the book, and even learn what to do on the first day as owner of your new enterprise. Jim lays it all out for you, step by step!

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About the Author

Jim Calkins is a UCLA graduate who learned what makes a company flourish or flounder during his decades in the aerospace and defense industry. Later, Calkins established a business broker and consulting firm dedicated to assisting the purchase and/or sale of companies. Jim and his wife, Molly, live in the greated Los Angeles area.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Oak Tree Publishing (Claremont, CA); 1 edition (August 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892343029
• ISBN-13: 978-1892343024
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,522,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Value at the LA Small Business Expo!!, August 30, 1998

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This review is from: Business Buyer's Handbook: The Definitive Guide on How to Find, Analyze, Successfully Buy and Operate an Established Business for Greater Profit (Paperback)

I went to the Expo to check out business opportunities, and found this book. It seems like a good bargain considering that the author gives 2 hours of free consultation with every purchase. I really bought it just for that, but once I got it home and looked it over, I saw the book itself is worth its weight in gold. It's easy to read and really simplifies so many things...especially all those accounting things!

Thanks, Mr. Calkins!

Caroline Peterson

5.0 out of 5 stars Carefully scout a business entity in order to avoid ripoffs, April 11, 2003

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This review is from: Business Buyer's Handbook: The Definitive Guide on How to Find, Analyze, Successfully Buy and Operate an Established Business for Greater Profit (Paperback)

Business Buyer's Handbook by business broker and consultant Jim Calkins is a practical and resourceful guide to buying and operating a commercial business for profit. From ways to carefully scout a business entity in order to avoid ripoffs; to the facts on understanding financial statements and ratios; to creative financing techniques and how-to instructions for one's first day owning a new company, Business Buyer's Handbook is the ultimate consumer shopping entrepreneurial guide. If you are considering the purchase of an existent enterprise, then first give a very careful reading to the Business Buyer's Handbook!