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Acquiring Minds
Never Worked Harder, Never Been Happier
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Oh, that's very encouraging. Okay. Okay, great. Okay, back to the structure of the deal. We're going to unpack this, if you would.
Sure. So my offer, I did not do an SBA loan. I offered 165 plus there was a $60, a $60,000 seller note paid out over three years. So I self financed, in addition to using a HELOC to cover the cost of the business, inventory was 172.
And I also paid 100% of all of the open receivables, which was 21,000. I paid half of the open sales orders, which was 25,000. And then we reduced the, the open payables which was 18,000.
So that, that shook out to an additional $28,000. So the final numbers were the 165 plus the 60 plus the inventory of 172 and the shakeout of AR, AP and sales orders of 28,000.
What is that total? 425,425. So a couple things here. That 28, the receivable, sales orders, payables, that's effectively a working capital. That's a working capital calculation.
Although inventory arguably, you know, is also working capital. Because the, a business with like yours without inventory isn't a real business. So we should probably throw that in and count that as working capital and not something separate.
Anyway, you did pay for it. Uh, the, it sounds like they were treating the inventory or you guys in this transaction treated the inventory as sort of as separate, which is, you see commonly. But the accountants would probably say it's inventory is working capital and shouldn't be treated separately.
You know, tomato, tomato. Because ultimately it's still just being paid for one way or the other. The open sales orders, what does that mean?
Money that had been collected but you hadn't delivered. The, the, the, the items actually just
orders that had been committed orders. So no money collected yet. We, we realized our revenue when the order ships.
So a lot of the wholesale buyers come to that January show and they place orders for shipment in August. So these are committed orders on the books for a later ship date.
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