The Canadian Family Business Guide is designed to provide helpful assistance and advice to business families and their advisers. Based on KPMG Enterprise's philosophy that the family and the business are inextricably linked and should support each other, this guide offers a valuable premise: the stronger the family, the stronger the chance that the business will endure. Filled with helpful suggestions and tips from KPMG Enterprise advisors, this guide highlights the unique management challenges and opportunities, the potential impact of these challenges, issues on the business's operation and ownership, and the best management strategies to achieve both short and long-term success. This guide imparts proven approaches and strategies to help clients manage their family issues with success.

The title covers:

• Benefits and challenges of family businesses
• Family business model
• Dealing with conflict within a family business
• Managing expectations
• Developing a strategy
• Types of family business owners
• Estate planning
• Succession planning and implementation