Articles — Buyer Education from DealQA
Practical guides for people buying small businesses — written by the DealQA team.
How to Analyze a Broker P&L Before Buying a Business (A Buyer's Framework)
The framework serious buyers use to normalize a broker-prepared P&L, audit the add-backs, and find the real cash flow.
Read article8 Red Flags in a Small Business P&L (And What Each One Is Trying to Hide)
Eight P&L patterns that reliably predict trouble — and the question each one should make you ask the seller.
Read articleThe Small Business Due Diligence Checklist That Actually Works (Not Just a List to Skim)
A due diligence checklist organized the way real deals fail — financials, operations, customers, and legal — with pass/fail criteria for each item.
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