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When selling a business, owners often focus on closing the deal. An additional focus on personal wealth planning opportunities could result in significant savings on income, gift, and estate taxes. This planning checklist outlines the key factors to consider.

Many family-owned businesses feel like a recession has started already, due to rising material and energy costs, continued labor shortages coupled with wage increases, and other factors. Whether heading towards a recession or not, companies should consider a combination of internally focused cost cutting and operating improvement measures, as well as market- and customer-facing strategic measures.

Thomas Calandra, who is in his mid-twenties, is the owner of Calandra Enterprises. At least that’s how he introduces himself to customers and clients of the bakeries, hotels, and restaurants he runs with his sister, father, uncle, and grandfather. Thomas credits his family business’s success to his grandfather’s hard work, determination, and artistry. He and his sister vow not to be like other family-owned businesses that rise in the hands of the elders and crumble in the hands of the grandchildren.

Most family businesses take on the characteristics of their founder or founding family, especially in their formative years. This changes as the company grows and the founder begins to transition ownership and control to future generations. To guide the business succession transition forward on a successful path, there needs to be a family governance plan to establish a framework for joint decision-making among family members based on shared values, a common mission or purpose, and a collective vision for the family’s future.

In today’s complicated business climate, is your accounting software helping you grow and compete—or holding you back? This guide will help you understand whether it’s time to make a move. You’ll discover:

The world has changed since COVID-19, and the most successful companies will use this time to review their long-term strategy, competitive advantages, and organizational agility. This playbook lists cost optimization strategies and actions to increase productivity, and poses key questions that executives and board members should be evaluating to ensure they are better prepared for the next crisis.

More organizations are rethinking their existing wellness programs to create a true culture of health that supports employees’ personal health goals while improving the performance of the organization. Learn how a Health and Performance Program can provide personalized support, tools, and incentives to help individuals make important lifestyle changes that are aligned with performance objectives and your workplace culture.

The big wealth transition is now underway, with ownership of more than 60% of family enterprise expected to be handed off within the next decade. With the input of business owners and Family Enterprise Advisors, this report takes an in-depth look at transition planning and how family business leaders can prepare their family, as well as their business, for this imminent transition of wealth, ownership and leadership.

Individual employees can be an organization’s most valuable asset or their most significant risk. While each company and family offices will have different challenges and needs, there are best practices that can be implemented to ensure employees are properly recruited, vetted, hired, retained, and terminated. By taking the necessary steps, you will reduce the unnecessary expenditures and mitigate threats through an employee life cycle.

Adoption of an ESG strategy may begin as a reactive response to regulatory, investor, employee, or other stakeholder pressures, but that shouldn’t be where it ends. To reorient business strategy from shareholder to stakeholder and from short-term to long-term value creation, organizations need to tackle the primary actions to take them there. In a future where businesses are accountable to all stakeholders, the most successful businesses will be those that aim to generate positive impact for the world at large.