Purchase and Sale Consulting

• Determine of the other party is a willing buyer/seller
• Negotiate the deal
• Help in the allocation of the purchase price to maximize tax benefits
• Help get the price you want
• Close the deal
• Prepare you for the transition

Appraisals

• Why you might need one: Buying or selling a veterinary practice,
  Associate Buy-In, Enacting a Buy/Sell Agreement, Planning Your Estate,
  Dissolution
• Gatto McFerson uses a process that is fast becoming the industry standard. By carefully analyzing sixteen different traits of a practice, our process can not only determine what the practice is worth today, but also indicate its value in five years.
• Accredited in Business Valuations by the American Institute of Certified
  Public Accountants

• Helping you achieve your financial goals
• Helping you set monthly and annual targets for your practice

Management Consulting

• Assist in making your veterinary practice more profitable
• Helping you achieve your goals
• Help get your practice where you want it to be
• Help with problems/issues in the following areas relating to your practice: financial, marketing, personnel, service
• Assisting you in painting a picture of where you want your practice to go
• Comparing actual results to projected

Entrance/Exit Strategies

• Planning ahead for eventual sale/buy-in
• Targeting when you want to sell and getting the practice ready: financially, personnel, medically
• Putting together a sales package
• Helping the buyer plan his takeover
• Helping the buyer achieve financing

New Practice

• Checklists and manuals to get you started
• Helping you get financing to get the practice off the ground
• Demographic studies
• Detailed projections looking out five years
• Helping you set up pricing, marketing and personnel structures

Tax Preparation

Financial Statement Preparation

• Accurately report your practice's results
• Compare these results to budgets
• Analyze and suggest ways to improve these results

Management Reports

• Assess trends in your practice
• To assist you in having your finger on the pulse of your practice
• Daily and weekly reports

Owner/Partner Mediation

• Settling differences between partners/shareholders that benefit all parties
• Help in finding the win-win answer