Author: Nicole Nguyen-Iffland
Capital Gains Tax and Small Business CGT Concessions: What Every Business Sale Needs to Get Right
Capital gains tax often decides how much of your sale price you actually keep. Many owners discover this too late- after signing a contract. Small business CGT concessions exist to soften that blow, but only if you meet strict rules the ATO checks carefully. This guide breaks down how capital gains tax applies to a business sale, walks through each of the four small business CGT concessions, and flags a major change coming from 1Read More
How to Sell a Business in Australia: A Straight-Talking Guide from Gold Coast Business Brokers
Selling a business rattles nerves. Even confident owners who built something from nothing find themselves unsure where to start. What paperwork matters? Which buyer can you trust? Search “how to sell your business” and you’ll find two kinds of results: shallow checklists with no real substance, or dense legal jargon nobody without a law degree can use. This guide sits between those two extremes, with practical checklists built into every stage. Gold Coast Business BrokersRead More
How to Value a Business: A Practical Guide With Formulas and Worked Examples
Owners searching how to value a business usually want one thing: a number they can trust. Most guides online skip the actual maths. This one doesn’t. Below, you’ll find the four core valuation methods, worked examples with real numbers, and the industry multiples commonly used across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria business sales. Gold Coast Business Brokers has sold businesses right across Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria to bring you this guide. WhyRead More
Business Valuation Gold Coast: What Your Business Is Actually Worth
Most business owners ask the same question long before they’re ready to sell: how much is my business worth? It’s a reasonable question. It’s also harder to answer accurately than most owners expect. The figure many owners land on by themselves is often wrong. Not because the arithmetic is off, but because it starts from the wrong inputs. Anyone genuinely asking how much their business is worth needs to start from a different premise altogether:Read More
How to Maximise the Sale Price of Your Business: A Seller’s Guide from Gold Coast Business Brokers
Most business owners think price comes down to one number: last year’s profit. That’s only half the story. A buyer isn’t just purchasing your profit. They’re purchasing the chance that the profit keeps showing up after you’ve handed over the keys. Two businesses can post identical earnings and sell for wildly different amounts, because one of them still needs the owner standing in the doorway every morning and the other doesn’t. At Gold Coast BusinessRead More
How to Prepare Your Business for Sale: A Seller’s Checklist | Gold Coast Business Brokers
A buyer walks through the door with genuine interest. Three days later, the emails stop. Nothing about the numbers changed on paper. What changed was everything the buyer noticed with their own eyes: the owner still working the counter every single day with nobody trained to take over, sales that had quietly slipped over the past two quarters, stock gathering dust nobody had bothered to rotate. None of that shows up on a profit andRead More
Improve Your Business with Email Marketing
Owners often ask how to grow your business with email marketing before putting it on the market. It’s a fair question. A well-run inbox campaign does something spreadsheets can’t: it proves customers keep coming back on their own, without a discount or a sales call. That single fact matters enormously to a buyer weighing whether your revenue survives your departure. This guide walks through what actually works, what Australian law requires, and how a documentedRead More