The Seven Most Common Mistakes Made in Selling Your Business

Last week, GBQ held a panel discussion titled The Seven Most Common Mistakes Made in Selling Your Business, in which we had approximately 50 clients and friends of the firm attend. A liquidity event usually represents the largest single financial [...]

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The Supreme Court Rules: Healthcare Law is Upheld

In a close 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled the healthcare law that was passed and signed into law in 2010 is upheld.  The individual mandate was the key issue that many thought would be overturned based on the [...]

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Cyber Security Liability – Is Your Construction Company at Financial Risk?

GBQ Partners and Overmyer Hall Associates will be holding a seminar on August 1, 2012 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at GBQ Partners.  Michael Dickson, CPA, CITP, CISA, CISM Director, Business Technology Group GBQ Partners LLC and Joe Urquhart, [...]

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The Decision: Supreme Court’s Ruling on Obamacare

In what is considered to be the most important Supreme Court decision since Bush v. Gore in 2000, the Supreme Court is set to announce the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act  (or more informally known as [...]

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Valuator Capacity Will Be an Issue for Last Minute Gifts

By now, everyone knows that 2012 represents an unprecedented opportunity to transfer substantial wealth through gifting.  GBQ and countless others have written pieces encouraging wealthy taxpayers to consider this strategy. What hasn’t been mentioned often is that to support any [...]

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Lane on…Strategy and Winning Regardless

This post is multipurpose; it’s such a great example.  To my food service industry clients that make or distribute food service related products and services; this is right up your ally.  For those of you who attended my first quarter [...]

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Lane on…Sales – Money isn’t everything

When I ran the Clinic for Professional Services Leadership at the OSU Fisher College of Business, I learned a valuable lesson about money as a motivator.  It doesn’t work.  At least not always as you would think.  I started the [...]

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Lane on…Coolumbus: Time and Change

Time and Change will surely show How firm thy friendship, OH-HI-OH. These are the words we sang Sunday afternoon after four hours of waiting and speeches as our oldest daughter passed out of Ohio Stadium for the first time as [...]

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Real Federal Deficits Increase Faster Than the Official Amount

The Congressional Budget Office currently projects a budget deficit of $1.3 trillion in 2012.  To put it into perspective, that’s an average of around $4,200 for every man, woman and child in the U.S.  If we just include the working [...]

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