About Anchor Earnings

We have read the numbers from both sides of the table.

Anchor Earnings is the Quality of Earnings and exit-readiness practice of Anchor Partners. We spent our careers producing the numbers that executives, boards, buyers and lenders make decisions on. Now we prepare the reports those decisions rest on, and we get owners ready to pass them.

The experience behind it

Finance people, not brokers

Forty plus years of combined experience in FP&A and controllership, in the trenches with CFOs and executive leadership, across private-equity-backed and publicly traded companies, from $1M to $7B in revenue.

That matters here for one specific reason. We have sat on both sides of diligence. We know which questions a buyer's team or a credit committee asks, which answers create confidence, and how much a number with documentation behind it is worth at closing.

Straight about the arrangement

Three things you should know before you call

We are not a business broker.

We do not list your company, we do not find you a buyer, and we are not paid a percentage of what you sell for. Our fee does not change based on your outcome, and it does not depend on whether a deal closes.

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We work alongside your accountant.

Your bookkeeper keeps the books and your accountant files the taxes. Nobody gets fired for bringing us in.

We explain your numbers, prep you for the QoE, and provide a documented QoE for the transaction.

Buy-side, sell-side, or the lender's report on an SBA loan. Because we are independent of your business, we can prepare you for a Quality of Earnings and perform one as well.

Why this exists

Most owners get exactly one shot at this

You will run your business for decades and sell it once. The buyer across the table has done it dozens of times, and from October 2026 the lender's own team will be testing the earnings too.

That asymmetry is the whole problem. Owner-operated businesses are not worth less. The value is real, and value that is documented is value a buyer and a lender give you credit for. Every year we watched good businesses leave money on the table for reasons that were fixable two years earlier, and nobody had told the owner in time.

So we tell them in time. And when a deal needs an independent report, we write one that the people sizing it can rely on.

Want a straight answer about where you stand?

Tell us which seat you are in. We will tell you which report you need, what it has to cover, and what to have ready. The first call is free, and there is no pitch deck.

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