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Small Business Guide: Equipping Your Business
A comprehensive site citing sources for receiving information on equipping your business whether it be manufacturing, retail or service. Helpful links are provided to help you determine your equipment needs and acquisition of items as...
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Small Business Guide: Case Study: Calculating Regular Rates
This page describes how it is necessary to determine regular wages before overtime wages can be calculated. Several examples are given for the calculations of both.
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Small Business Guide: Defining Your Work Area
This site discusses the functionality and cost of locating your business in the home. Topics such as the type of business and why you chose the home to locate your business are discussed. A link to income tax write-offs is provided.
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Small Business Guide: Quick Pick Chart for Financing Sources
Business financing options are displayed in chart format based on the age of a business and length of a loan. Loan types are linked to provide additional information about each loan.
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Biz Filings: Capital Assets and Depreciation
This resource gives an overview of depreciating plant assets and the reasons for doing so. A chart also provides a comparison of the straight-line and declining-balance methods of depreciation.
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Business Owner's Toolkit: Personal Strength and Weakness Assessment Checklist
This resource contains a checklist rating your strengths and weaknesses as a small business owner. The necessary skills for starting a business are displayed in a chart.
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Small Business Guide: Should You Lease or Buy a Facility?
Once a location is chosen, one needs to determine if leasing or buying the property is the most economical. Links to leasing, buying, and comparing the economics are provided.
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Small Business Guide: What Are Your Goals?
This site discusses the economic, personal, and retirement goals of an entrepreneur. The importance of goals and quantifying them in relation to business plans are linked.
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Small Business Guide: Do You Have the Right Stuff to Run a Small Business?
Very comprehensive site with links to all of the roles you must be experienced in to run a small business successfully. Roles such as tax collector, manager/boss, sales/marketing/advertising executive, accountant, etc. are discussed.
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Biz Filings: Is a Home Business Right for You?
This site guides you through a series of questions with links that will help you determine if the business you are starting is best located in the home.
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Small Business Guide: Writing Your Business Plan
This site covers the various components you should include in your business plan. Each component is further discussed through a link.
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Small Business Guide: Marketing Plans
This site discusses the marketing element of a business plan. Additional links provide more in-depth detail to this section of a business plan.
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Business Owner's Toolkit: Steps to Take to Improve Cash Flow Management
This resource begins a discussion on preparing a cash flow budget. Click the links on the page to go to additional steps in preparing this budget or click the 'Next' button at the bottom of the page. This page also includes a...
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Small Business Guide: Accounts Receivable
This article describes recording sales on account in a sales and cash receipts journal and then posting to an accounts receivable ledger. It also describes the relationship between the accounts receivable ledger and the general ledger....
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Small Business Guide: Financial Statements
The four main financial statements, the balance sheet, the income statement, position statement, and statement of changes in owner's equity are listed with links for more detailed information. The importance of financial statements along...
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Small Business Guide: Getting Financing for Your Business/personal Financing
Financing by personal means is discussed at this site. Many additional links are listed for further information on sources of personal financing.
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Small Business Guide: Analyzing the Factors That Affect Your Cash Flow
This site describes the many aspects of cash flow in a business.
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Biz Filings: Protecting House Without a Homestead Exemption
Business Owner's Toolkit website offers a broad definition of "tenancy in common." Reference to survivorship, ownership rights, conveyance of property are also explained.
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Biz Filings: Small Business Guide: Finding the Right Small Business for You
This site provides tips on choosing a business that fits your knowledge and skills. Very useful links to help you analyze consumers' wants and evaluate your skills to match those wants. Learn the common mistakes that other business...
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Business Owner's Toolkit: Starting a Sole Proprietorship
Tells how easy it is to start a sole proprietorship.
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Sole Proprietorships, Partnerships and Ll Cs Are Commonly Used Entities
Article that looks at three types of business structures - sole proprietorships, partnerships and limited liability companies - and what the tax and non-tax implications are for each.
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Biz Filings: Accounting for Bad Debts
This article gives an overview of accounting for uncollectible accounts and explains procedures for both cash and accrual basis systems.
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Small Business Guide: Getting Financing for Your Business
This site discusses the financial stage your business is at since a start-up business will require different financing needs than an aging business. Many helpful links to different types of financing are provided.
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Small Business Guide: What if You Need Help?
This article raises basic questions about whether you should hire professional help with your business plan.