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title: "Episode 6- Part 1: Is this the time to buy or sell a business in the COVID-Era? | Cleveland CPA Accounting Firm | Barnes Wendling CPAs"
description:     Join this episode as we chat with Floyd Trouten, director of our transactional services and Steve Piatak, a director in our Business Valuation services group as they discuss a variety of topics related to buying…
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# [Episode 6- Part 1: Is this the time to buy or sell a business in the COVID-Era? | Cleveland CPA Accounting Firm | Barnes Wendling CPAs](https://blog.barneswendling.com/podcasts/episode-6-part-1-is-this-the-time-to-buy-or-sell-a-business-in-the-covid-era)

 Written by [Barnes Wendling CPAs](https://blog.barneswendling.com/podcasts/author/barnes-wendling-cpas) | Aug 3, 2020 1:45:20 PM

 

 

Join this episode as we chat with Floyd Trouten, director of our transactional services and Steve Piatak, a director in our Business Valuation services group as they discuss a variety of topics related to buying or selling your business during the COVID-19 Era. They will discuss the following: 

- Is this the right time?
- How to prepare your business?
- How to accurately put a value on your business?
- How has the due diligence changed? 
- And more

We will expand on this topic in Part 2 coming soon. 

  

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