A successful business sale is a transfer of the business to the business owner's desired successor at the desired time and for the after-tax money that the business owner wanted or needed to financially secure his or her post-business lifestyle. Business owners that have engaged in the planning process generally have stronger businesses that have higher transferable values. They have intentionally focused on assessing and increasing the business' Value Drivers to ultimately increase the market value of the business. The business sale may be to one or more insiders or to a third party. The business sale may be to effect a transfer of wealth to the next generation within the family. Whether insider or third party, the considerations have been accounted for in the planning. And, those considerations are vastly different. A planned sale to insiders has provided for the successors to accumulate the training and necessary skill sets to successfully run the comp...