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  • Incorporation Tax Blunders: Mistakes No Small Business Should Make
    Incorporating a small business can save the business owners thousands of dollars annually in taxes. But in order to safely harvest those tax savings, the corporation needs to avoid some common mistakes.

    Date of Article: 03Jan2009
    Category: Business - General
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  • The Psychology of Business Plan Blunders
    Planning a new venture is always tricky. But entrepreneurs can ease the planning process and improve the final result by avoiding some common psychological traps.
    Date of Article: 03Jan2009
    Category: Business - General
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  • Answering the LLC versus S Corporation Question
    Small business owners and entrepreneurs sometimes find the LLC vs S corporation question confusing. But one tax professor says the question is easy to answer if you understand how LLCs work.
    Date of Article: 17Dec2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Year-end Tax Accounting Checklist for S Corporations
    S corporations can save their owners thousands of dollars a year in taxes--which explains their popularity among small business entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, S corporation year-end bookkeeping can confuse and befuddle new and experienced S corporation owners. Use this checklist to simplify the year-end process.
    Date of Article: 16Dec2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Business Planning for an S Corporation
    According to the Internal Revenue Service, S corporations represent the most popular form for doing business in the United States. That popularity isn't surprising given the tax benefits of using an S corporation. But the popularity does mean that entrepreneurs need to understand what's different about business planning for an S corporation. This article does just that.
    Date of Article: 19Nov2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Three Great Reasons to Start a Business Now!
    Worried that now isn't the right time to start your own business? One small business CPA says now may just be the very best time to start a business--and for three compelling reasons.
    Date of Article: 19Nov2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Using IRA Money to Start Your Own Business
    Starting a business requires capital--and one place to get that capital is from one's IRA accounts. Predictably, however, the small business entrepreneur needs to be careful about using IRA funds to start a business, as one accountant explains.
    Date of Article: 06Nov2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Starting a Small Business on a Budget
    Getting the money to start a small business constitutes one of the first, big challenges to wannabe entrepreneurs. But one CPA says people can use several tricks to start a business on a budget.
    Date of Article: 03Nov2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Starting a Business in a Bad Economy
    Starting a small business in a recession is tough. But the dark clouds of a bad economy include some silver linings, as one small business CPA explains.
    Date of Article: 01Nov2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Writing a Business Plan in a Recession
    Need to write a business plan for the bank or an outside investor? The author of MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel explains how you need to adjust the business planning process when the economy is in a recession.
    Date of Article: 27Oct2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • When You Don't Need to Write a Business Plan
    Trying to make sense of the business planning process? Confused by the different definitions people seem to use for the phrase, "business planning?" One accountant tries to share some useful information.
    Date of Article: 25Oct2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Using S Corporations for Real Estate Investment
    The general rule is, "Never, ever put real estate inside a corporation." But in a handful of special cases, a corporation, more precisely an S corporation, can be a useful tool for savvy real estate investors.
    Date of Article: 30Aug2008
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • Forming a Professional Limited Liability Company
    Small businesses and entrepreneurs often minimize their liability and save taxes by using a limited liability company. Unfortunately, the rules get tricky for professionals (doctors, lawyers and others) who want to take advantage of the LLC option. This article suggests five tips for making the professional LLC setup process clean and error-free
    Date of Article: 17Aug2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • The Successful C Corporation Owner's Wealth-building Blunder
    Successful business owners operating as C corporations often make a terrible tax blunder--they decide to do their investing inside the business. A tax professor and CPA explains why this mistake is such an expensive error--and what the business owner can do to correct the problem.
    Date of Article: 28Jul2008
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • Paying the Owners of a Limited Liability Company
    Limited liability companies are popular with accountants and attorneys, but they can make life complicated for a small business owner or bookkeeper trying to pay the owner for his or her services. In this short article, QuickBooks for Dummies author and CPA Stephen L. Nelson provides some rules of thumb for making the process easier.
    Date of Article: 27Jun2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Can Your Business Operate as an S Corporation?
    Subchapter S corporation status often saves the small business owner thousands of dollars a year in taxes. But tight eligibility rules mean some small businesses can't qualify. In this article, a CPA explains who can and can't take advantage of S corporation status.
    Date of Article: 26Jun2008
    Category: Finance & Investment
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  • Setting Up QuickBooks for a Limited Liability Company
    Almost always an LLC gets treated as some other type of entity for tax accounting purposes. That means setting up QuickBooks for the LLC can be complicated. Fortunately, small businesses can use three QuickBooks setup tricks.
    Date of Article: 12Jun2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Why You Maybe Shouldn't Incorporate Your Small Business
    Small businesses often think about incorporating. That's not surprising given that incorporation usually reduces business risks and can save a business thousands in taxes. But despite those savings, very small businesses need to think carefully about incorporating because of the costs and administrative work.
    Date of Article: 31May2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • S Corporation Tax Blunders
    S corporations have become the most popular type of corporation in the county--which isn't surprising. An S corporation can save its owners tens of thousands of dollars in taxes each year. To reap those savings, however, the small business needs to avoid these five common S corporation tax blunders.
    Date of Article: 24May2008
    Category: Business - General
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