In every sense, the sale of your business validates or invalidates your success as a funeral home owner. You have spent a lifetime pouring yourself out for others. This unstated question is one most of us must face – was it worth it? The range of emotions to answering this question is far wider than most books dare address. This one does.

There are multiple dimensions to selling a business – financial is foremost in most people’s minds, with the practical not far behind. No less important, and sometimes more impactful, are the emotional factors that often come into play. Alan Creedy, a former CPA and certified exit planner with more than 40 years of experience as a consultant, analyst and broker in the deathcare profession, has masterfully blended all of these dimensions to empower readers to navigate an unfamiliar, high-risk, major life step.

With Finish Well: An Exit Guide For Funeral Home Owners, which combines technical insights with actual case studies, readers will be able to understand and apply the right steps to accomplish the best results. The author’s methods and approaches have stood for more than 40 years, outperforming the profession’s expectations. Most helpful are specific tools ranging from how to calculate a multiple to a checklist for organizing due diligence.

Finish Well gives funeral practitioners insights on how to finish their careers on their timeline and be happy with the results. Said Creedy: “Most funeral home owners spend their career pouring themselves out for others. I believe they deserve to end well. [And] ending well means more than simply getting the most money. It means finishing on your own terms.” The book serves as an invaluable tool for funeral practitioners looking for real-world advice on navigating the extremely personal and deeply emotional experience of selling their funeral homes. Creedy offers a number of practical tools in the book to help those contemplating the transition to a life partially or totally outside of funeral service. Available on Amazon.