You will be asked for a lot of information. This will include a complete review of your accounting system and management information system to include all reports. We need to make sure that they are in shape and if need be tie Excel reports into the database where needed.

Without information, you cannot make decisions so you've got to have it. You've been so intimately involved with the business that you most likely do not worry about management reports, just the financial reports. I once had a client that read every order every morning even if there were a few hundred—customer service and order entry kept on their toes. This was a commercial furniture business with a healthcare division—everything had to be there on time or nothing opened on time. He knew the heartbeat and the operations—the buyer will need reports. We know how to create these.