Financing Transitions Managing Capital and Liquidity in the Family Business

Today's business owners are equipped with many new techniques to weathering financial transition as the liquidity of the family and the capital needs of the business evolve over generations. This book establishes the principles and patterns necessary to laying the foundation for capital and liquidity planning. Through an in-depth examination of financial situations, it leads family businesses to making wise, well-timed choices about the future of the business and the family.

Franois M. de Visscher is President of de Visscher Co., Founder of "Family Capital Growth Partners," Co-founder of the Business Growth Alliance, and a director and shareholder of his own family's global enterprise, N.V. Bekaert S.A. Craig E. Aronoff is Co-founder, Principal Consultant, and Chairman of the Board of Family Business Consulting Group, Inc., the founder of the Cox Family Enterprise Center, and current Professor Emeritus at Kennesaw State University. He invented and implemented the membership-based, professional-service-provider sponsored Family Business Forum, which has served as a model of family business education for universities world-wide. John L. Ward is Co-founder of the Family Business Consulting Group, Inc. He is Clinical Professor at the Kellogg School of Management and teaches strategic management, business leadership, and family enterprise continuity.