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.

Autorentext
FRANÇOIS M. de VISSCHER 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 Co-founder, Principal, and Chairman of the Board of The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc., the founder of the Cox Family Enterprise Center and current Professor Emeritus at Kennesaw State University, USA. 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 Co-founder of the Family Business Consulting Group Inc. He is Clinical Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, USA, and teaches strategic management, business leadership and family enterprise continuity. 

Inhalt
Balancing Liquidity, Growth and Control Managing Patient Capital and Shareholder Liquidity Managing the Cost of Patient Capital The Role of Family Governance in Family Effect Keeping, Selling, or Expanding the Family Business Internal Financial Solutions: Meeting Shareholders' Immediate, Current, and Ongoing Liquidity Needs External Financial Solutions: Matching the Right Form of Capital to the Right Strategy Private Equity as a Growing Source of Capital Summary Index The Authors