Selling your childcare business is one of the largest financial events of an owner’s life. However, most multi-location operators approach it with assumptions that quietly cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. This complete guide covers the entire process from initial consideration through closing, drawing on the four detailed pieces published in our Selling cluster over the past month. Whether read more.

Most childcare sales don’t fall apart for dramatic reasons. They fall apart for small, fixable reasons that nobody addressed in time. The seven things that can derail a childcare center sale tend to repeat across deals, and almost all of them can be fixed before buyers ever see them. This guide walks through each one, with specific guidance on how read more.

Most childcare owners imagine the sale process as a series of meetings with friendly buyers asking general questions. The reality is dramatically different. Sophisticated buyers send diligence teams that work through a specific checklist of indicators, and what childcare buyers look at often surprises sellers who haven’t been through the process before. This guide walks through the actual list, organized read more.

Most multi-location childcare owners think their books look fine. However, when a buyer’s diligence team arrives, they find a dozen reasons to discount the offer. To clean up your P&L before you sell, owners typically need to start at least a year before any conversation with a broker. Otherwise, they accept a price discount they didn’t have to take. Admittedly, read more.

Most multi-location childcare owners assume their portfolio sells as one package. It doesn’t have to. When one site is dragging down the others, the smarter move is often to carve it out and sell what’s strong. This guide on selling a childcare center walks through how owners make that decision, what buyers actually want to see, and the financial preparation read more.

One area to pay special attention to as a child care business operator is child care billing. Billing is important because it is the transaction that ensures you are properly compensated for your services. It is the process that controls cash flow and also helps ensure that money flows smoothly and easily into your business’ accounts.

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How to Run a Profitable Childcare Center: The Complete Guide for Owners Most guides on how to run a profitable childcare center come from operators or marketers. This one comes from a CPA firm that has worked exclusively with childcare centers since 2013. The difference matters. Operators tell you what worked at their centers. Marketers tell you what gets clicks. read more.

The 5 Childcare KPIs Every Center Should Track Monthly Most conversations about childcare KPIs start in the wrong place. Most center owners check their bank account daily. Almost none can tell you their slot-day utilization rate. That gap is why centers with strong enrollment still feel financially tight. The bank account tells you what happened. It cannot tell you why, read more.