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The article focuses on the legal complexities surrounding the hiring of employees during a business sale, specifically regarding their entitlements. Topics include the implications of employee contracts during the sale process, how leave entitlements are typically handled between the vendor and purchaser, and the conditions under which a buyer can hire employees without carrying over their entitlements, particularly for annual leave and long-service leave.

The article discusses the considerations for dental practice owners when deciding whether to buy or continue leasing their premises. Topics include leveraging rental payments for capital growth, enhancing practice value through ownership, and securing long-term stability and control over location to mitigate patient attrition risks associated with relocation.

An interview with Simon Palmer, Wilson Twist, and Harry Nicolaides, is presented, clarifying common misconceptions surrounding practice sale/purchase deposits, payment timelines, holders, refundability, and release stages. Topics covered include deposit negotiation, and the role of deposits in potential defaults, emphasizing the importance of formal contracts and the deposit's significance as security for vendors in mitigating potential financial losses.

The article presents the discussion on player needs to put money in at the beginning of each hand in order to get dealt their cards. Topics include player then needs to choose to invest further with every additional round of cards that are drawn; and business owners are similar to good poker players, in that they are also characterised not just by how well they run their businesses.

The article focuses on the importance of professional business appraisals beyond buying and selling. Topics discussed include reasons for appraisals in succession planning, retirement planning, exit strategies, business improvement, funding, insurance, and partnership buy-outs/divorce settlements.

The article highlights the often-overlooked role of insurance in dental practice purchases, emphasizing its significance in securing loans, leases, and safeguarding against unforeseen events. Topics discussed include the types of insurance required for bank loans, the insurance specifications for leasing practice premises, and the information gathering process for obtaining these insurances.

The article discusses Younger and older dentists may have differing perspectives on running a dental practice due to the generational divide that exists in the profession. While older dentists may have a more traditional approach to practice operations, younger dentists can recognize the opportunities that exist in these practices, such as updating marketing strategies, expanding clinical offerings, and investing in modern equipment, which can unlock significant value and potential for growth.

The article offers information on dental practice financials. Topics include information on incomes and expenses of dentists and dental practices; how dental practice structures define dental practice financials and its future; and how personal expenses may be mixed into the dental practice financials.

The author discusses time spent by dentists while deciding to get ownership analyzing practices to purchase or sites to start up with. Topics discussed include book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by author Stephen Covey published in 1989, consideration of financial figure needed to reach in order to retire, and knowing one's practice's worth and how the value has been increasing or decreasing.

The article discusses the business is strong and the vendors seem young and healthy, buyers will often show some incredulity and/or suspicion about why it is for sale. There seems to be a misconception out there that a successful business owner will only ever buy, grow and accumulate businesses. That when they decide to sell one, it could only be if they were retiring, sick or if there was something wrong with the business that the buyer cannot see yet.

The article reports that Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's baseball team, was faced with the departure of star players and a limited budget to replace them. Topics include considered that he realized that if he was going to look for players using the same metrics as all the other teams, he was going to find the same players as every other team and be outbid every time.