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7 Smart Year-End Tax Planning Moves For Small Business Owners

From Forbes.com 7 Smart Year-End Tax Planning Moves For Small Business Owners David Rae Year end tax planning is an amazing way to increase your small business net profits without having to work harder. While some of you may still need to file your 2021 taxes, the 2023 tax season (filing your 2022 taxes) is […]

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Lower SBA Loan Fees

/ Mike Schillingburg, VP SBA Lending at MidFirst Bank, provided the following update about the SBA lowering upfront fees: The SBA has announced new, lower SBA Guarantee Fees effective October 1, 2022. Loan amounts $1,000,000 and lower are affected. The Upfront Fees for loans with a maturity date that exceeds 12 months are as follows: […]

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Personal Vision + A Bucket List = Increased Company Value!

Friends of the firm Ed & Valerie Riefenstahl at The Alternative Board (TAB) Fort Worth shared the following article describing how cultivating work/life balance can increase the value of your business. After Ben Allen founded Allen Technology Advising (ATA), he struggled to find work-life balance. “After starting ATA it was really painful for me as […]

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Kasper & Associates Origin Story

Here’s a brief background on Kasper & Associates. Years ago my Partner and I had won a contract with the Electric Power Research Institute (based in Palo Alto, CA) to construct a transmission tower testing operation in Haslet, Texas.  After several years of successfully managing the facility which we had built, General Electric Corporation approached […]

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Matters of Importance to Business Owners

During nearly four decades of providing merger and acquisition advisory activity, two questions are frequently asked by owners of companies.  First, what is the current market-based valuation of my company?  Second, should I decide to sell, how long will the process take?  The answers are the following: (1) Valuations should be determined by professional advisors […]

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Free Enterprise Creed

For nearly four decades Kasper & Associates has been providing merger & acquisition advisory expertise to those we consider to be pillars of our country, our state and our economies.  So we’re re-posting the Free Enterprise Creed which lists principles each of us must apply and in turn pass on to others as we “Fight […]

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Tarrant County plans to use $25 million in federal funds to bolster small businesses

Written by Rachel Behrndt in Fort Worth Report: Tarrant County plans to use $25 million in federal funds to bolster small businesses Rachel Behrndt The pandemic hit Florence “Flo” Salazar Bruner and her 24-year-old business, Firehouse Auto Sales, harder than most.  After suffering life-threatening injuries from a car accident, Salazar Bruner awoke to a new […]

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Corporate Relocations to Texas

Corporate Relocations to Texas With several large companies moving their headquarters to Texas, including Caterpillar and Allegheny Technologies, there have been numerous smaller companies following suit under the radar. Our friends at YTexas have compiled a list of many of these relocations in their 2022 YTexas Relo Tracker Report. Access the report here.

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Memorial Day 2022

Honoring those who have made the ultimate sacrifice defending our freedom. Video here.

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Kasper & Associates Aligned with Compass Real Estate

Kasper & Associates (K&A), the leading North and Central Texas merger and acquisition firm (established 1984) headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is pleased to announce its alliance with the ULTERRE Group at Compass Real Estate.  Formerly affiliated with Christie’s International Real Estate, the ULTERRE Group was acquired by Compass in March of 2022. According to […]