EP 68: How To Maximize Your Value Using Quality of Earnings Reports, Elliott Holland, Guardian Due Diligence

Elliott Holland, Managing Partner of Guardian Due Diligence, joined host Ed Mysogland to discuss how a Quality of Earnings report maximizes the value of a business in a sale, reduces the risk of buyer objections, and helps secure completion of the transaction.

Guardian Due Diligence

Guardian Due Diligence provides Quality of Earnings for Self-Funded Searchers. They have three options to choose from, including a "Done for You" financial diligence service.

Guardian's 21 accountants are from the top 3% of CPAs from the past 15 years of interviewing.

How are they different & better? Alongside each Quality of Earnings, they advise their clients on how to execute better deals leveraging their 20+ years acquiring small and medium sized businesses. They are deal guys who manage accountants who help entrepreneurs buy better businesses.

Want to know if a CPA firm or a full-service diligence firm like Guardian is the right choice for you? Take their 5-question assessment here.

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Elliott Holland, Managing Partner, Guardian Due Diligence

Elliott is an expert in the acquisition of small and medium sized businesses. He helps first-time buyers like you manage through the challenging and nuanced due diligence process. He’s been in this space since before they called it ETA. His burning desire is to take you through a comprehensive diligence process and guard you from expensive mistakes based on his vast experience in the deal business.

He’s worked for the nation’s best business acquisition firms like The Watermill Group and Linx Partners and then started his own acquisition firm where he apprenticed under an industry veteran. He hasn’t seen it all but he’s seen a lot. His Harvard MBA doesn’t hurt either.

Elliott started Guardian because the diligence solutions for smaller deals frankly stink. He created a better solution to help buyers avoid doing bad deals and help buyers execute deals with confidence. We all want confidence when making million-dollar investments.

He caught the acquisition bug in 2009 - his first year of business school, then worked in private equity (PE) in order to gain skills from the nation's best business acquirers. Like you, Elliott started his own firm to go out and buy companies in the automotive, industrial, and healthcare space.

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Ed Mysogland, Host of Defenders of Business Value Podcast

The Defenders of Business Value Podcast combines 30 years of exit planning, valuation, and exit execution working with business owners. Ed Mysogland has a mission and vision to help business owners understand the value of their business and what makes it salable. Most of the small business owner’s net worth is locked in the company; to unlock it, a business owner has to sell it. Unfortunately, the odds are against business owners that they won’t be able to sell their companies because they don’t know what creates a saleable asset.

Ed interviews battle-tested experts who help business owners prepare, build, preserve, and one-day transfer value with the sale of the business for maximum value.

Ed is the Managing Partner of Indiana Business Advisors. He guides the development of the organization, its knowledge strategy, and the IBA initiative, which is to continue to be Indiana’s premier business brokerage by bringing investment-banker-caliber of transactional advisory services to small and mid-sized businesses. Ov