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You have a friend who is considering buying a business and wants your advice. Here's the situation. Your friend took a job bagging coffee, doing basic bookkeeping as well as some part-time sales for a wholesale coffee business. (A wholesaler typically sells to other businesses. in this case to retail coffee shops/cafes{restaurants/food retailers -- NOT to consumers). The company purchases directly from Guatemalan farmers' cooperatives. thereby getting the coffee at a bargain price, while still paying the farmers above-market prices for the coffee (which is a business model known as "fair trade"). The company then sells both ground coffee and whole bean coffee to food retailers and to coffee shops (plus restaurants and other such places} in the San Francisco Bay area. Working with all that caffeine has gotten your friend charged up about going into business for herself. The owner is 60 years old, and he has told your friend that heid like to slow down. He has offered to sell her all or part of the business. Her personal financial resources are limited, but she wants to be an entrepreneur and is eager to give this opportunity some deep thought if it makes business sense. She has taken some courses in business herself and isn't someone to make business decisions based mainly on emotion. She knows that you are studying business and have some working experience as well. She wants you to help her think through this potentially life-changing decision and give her some advice. What factors should the two of you consider in making a decision about what to do? How should you analyze them? Be sure that you consider multiple aspects of this decision, ranging from personal goals to finances to the business environment (competition, market) to company strategy. Also consider which valuation model to use and why