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Business Owner's Toolkit: The Difference Between Cash Flow and Profit
This article explains the difference between cash flow and profit and how to use accrual accounting to manage finances for a business.
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Bizfilings: Form an Llc Online
This is a page for applying to form a limited liability company, and it explains what an LLC is, how to form one, the advantages and disadvantages, and the tax issues involved.
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Business Owner's Toolkit: Business Plan Components, Sample Plans
This resource provides examples of business plans for a manufacturing, service, and retail business. Business plan financials for each of these business types are linked.
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Biz Filings: Compare Business Types
Chart comparing features of C corporations, S corporations, and limited liability corporations (LLC's).
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Business Owner's Toolkit: Federal Unemployment Tax
This article offers useful information regarding the correct payment of payroll taxes under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act.
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Business Owner's Toolkit: Incorporation Expenses
This article gives details on deducting organization expenditures if you decide to do business as a corporation
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Business Owner's Toolkit: S and C Corporations Create Different Tax Consequences
This site gives a basic overview of what a corporation is, and then discusses tax implications for both S and C corporations.
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Cch Business Toolkit: What to Consider When Making Business Facility Decisions
This article covers factors to consider when making business facility decisions including location, need in the facility, community, profitability, functions of the facility, efficiency, and more.
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Small Business Guide: Understanding the Requirements of Business Ownership
The advantages and disadvantages of owning your own business are listed. Includes the pros and cons of a home-based business as well.
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Business Owner's Toolkit: Employers' Responsibility for Fica Payroll Taxes
Explains requirements of FICA - Federal Insurance Contributions Act.
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Small Business Guide: Your Sales Tax Obligations
This site gives an overview of sales taxes. Links on the page provide additional information. Click on "What Are Sales Taxes" for an explanation of what kinds of sales are subject to sales taxes. There is also a link for sales tax...
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Small Business Guide: Legal Restrictions on Home Offices
Zoning rules and government regulations are important to consider when locating a business in your home. Helpful links to these topics are provided.
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Business Owner's Toolkit: Starting Corporation
The formation, operation, protective measures, tax issues, and advantages/disadvantages of corporations are discussed in this article.
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Business Owner's Toolkit: Disposing of Capital Assets
This article explains tax implications of when a business owner disposes of a capital asset. Gives useful links to other financial information.
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Small Business Guide: What Are Your Self Employment Taxes?
CCH Business Owner's Toolkit answers questions about self-employment taxes because "even if you don't hire anyone else to help you run your business, you're always going to have at least one employee, and that would be yourself."
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Small Business Guide: Payroll Deductions
This site describes different kinds of deductions that can apply to gross pay. Many of the deductions have links to additional information.
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Business Owner's Toolkit: Business Combinations and Sources of Venture Capital
Explains how business can profit from mergers, joint ventures, consolidations, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and associations. It describes an SBIC and how it works, and gives specific information regarding characteristics of...
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Business Owner's Toolkit: Debt Financing for Small Businesses
Recommends ways to finance a sole proprietorship and gives the advantages/disadvantages of a sole proprietorship.
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Petty Cash Fund
This page describes the reasons for setting up a petty cash fund and methods for keeping records and replenishing it. A journal entry is shown as an example.
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Importance of Good Records
This page describes the importance of accounting information in understanding and controlling success or failure, decision-making, budgeting, taxes, and capital acquisition.
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Small Business Guide:banks for Small Business Loans
Site provides description of how to obtain small business loans.
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Small Business Guide: Government Financing Programs
Government loans are described with links to more detailed information on different types of loans.
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Small Business Guide: Sba "Low Doc" Loan Guarantee Program
This site explains "LowDoc" loans. Information on interest rates to links on eligibility are included.
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Small Business Guide: Managing Your Business Finances
Financial management and its key concepts are outlined at this site. Additional links on subjects such as cash flow management, credit and collections, and financial analysis are provided.