At ACA Partners, LLC, we recognize that employees play a significant role in contributing to the success of a company. After all, it is the employees who act as the liaison between the paying customers and the company’s goods and services. It can be said then that your employees’ performance can be a reliable gauge of your business’ success.

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The correlation between your employees’ motivation to do their job well and your business’ success can be acutely observed in companies that offer an Employment Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). As stockholders, employees are expected to work towards achieving the company’s objectives to stimulate business performance and increase the value of their stocks in the process. It is a win-win situation for both parties where the employees and the management benefit from each other: less conflicting values and goals, and more cooperation towards a common end.

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As promising as an Employment Stock Ownership Plan seems, though, it’s important to review how it aligns with your business objectives. To help you decide, ACA Partners LLC suggests that you have a professional business valuation done. The appraisal and the periodic business review, as well as revealing areas of opportunity and improvement for the company, make business valuation an essential component of your decision to offer ESOP.

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Business valuation is more complex than it sounds; it involves academically-validated methods with industry-specific valuation factors. The team of business valuation experts at ACA Partners, LLC has more than two decades of advising and deal-making experience in the buying and selling of businesses.

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With a thorough and professional business valuation, offering an ESOP should be an enlightened business strategy.