How to Start a Business

“An excellent resource for beginners… written specifically for entrepreneurs who want to start their own business in California.” — StartupJournal.com

“Excellent advice… for would-be small-business owners, and heeding it can help you avoid many early mistakes.” — Los Angeles Times

“Provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a small business in California and guiding it safely through its first year and beyond.” — Reference & Research Book News

“The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California puts all the California-specific information you need to begin your business — right at you fingertips.” — San Francisco Chamber of Commerce

Product Description

The best step-by-step guide to starting a business in California!

If you dream of starting a business, but fear that, without an MBA, you’ll get lost in the maze of government red tape here’s the handbook you need.

The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California outlines how to set up your enterprise in the Golden State quickly and easily, pointing out the hurdles, fees and forms along the way. Clear and straight to the point, the book explains how to:

JK Lasser’s Small Business Taxes 2009 Description

While many small business owners seek to improve their bottom line, few realize all the ways that tax laws can help them do so. J.K. Lasser’s Small Business Taxes 2009 gives you a complete overview of small business tax planning in an accessible manner. Focusing on strategies that help you use deductions and tax credits effectively, shield business income, and maximize other aspects of small business taxes, this valuable guide will show you how your actions in business today can affect your bottom line from a tax perspective tomorrow.

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Tax/Personal Finance

The tax facts and strategies thatevery small business owner needs to know

Owning a small business is a big responsibility. While many small business owners seek to improve their bottom line, few realize all the ways that both current and new tax laws can help them do so. With J.K. Lasser’s Small Business Taxes 2009, you’ll quickly discover how.

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this reliable resource offers a complete overview of small business tax planning and provides you with the information needed to make tax-smart decisions throughout the year. Focusing on strategies that help you use deductions and tax credits effectively, shield business income, and maximize other aspects of small business taxes, this practical guide will show you how your actions in business today can affect your bottom line from a tax perspective tomorrow.

In this fully updated volume, you’ll find:

• Detailed coverage of the newest tax laws and IRS rules
• Planning strategies that can help you run a tax-smart business all year long
• Comprehensive information on each deductible expense, including dollar limits and record-keeping requirements
• Clear instructions on where to report income and claim deductions on your tax forms
• Help with state taxes and a guide to information returns you may need to file
• Sample forms and checklists to help you prepare for tax time
• Access to a free online supplement to this book, which contains up-to-the-minute tax changes

Want to start the small business of your dreams? Want to breathe new life into the one you already have? Small Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition provides authoritative guidance on every aspect of starting and growing your business, from financing and budgeting to marketing, management and beyond.

This completely practical, no-nonsense guide gives you expert advice on everything from generating ideas and locating start-up money to hiring the right people, balancing the books, and planning for growth. You’ll get plenty of help in ramping up your management skills, developing a marketing strategy, keeping your customers loyal, and much more. You’ll also find out to use the latest technology to improve your business’s performance at every level. Discover how to:

• Make sure that small-business ownership is for you
• Find your niche and time your start-up
• Turn your ideas into plans
• Determine your start-up costs
• Obtain financing with the best possible terms
• Decide whether or not to incorporate
• Make sense of financial statements
• Navigate legal and tax issues
• Buy an existing business
• Set up a home-based business
• Publicize your business and market your wares
• Keep your customers coming back for more
• Track cash flow, costs and profits
• Keep your business in business and growing

You have the energy, drive, passion, and smarts to make your small business a huge success. Small Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition, provides the rest.

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Use the latest technology to improve performance

The fun and easy way to be your own boss and run a successful business

Want to start a small business — or energize the one you already have? This practical, no-nonsense guide gives you expert advice on everything from generating ideas and locating financing to hiring the right people, balancing the books, and planning for growth. You’ll ramp up your management skills, develop a marketing strategy, keep your customers loyal, and more!

Discover how to:

• Obtain financing
• Make sense of financial statements
• Navigate legal and tax issues
• Set up a home-based business
• Buy an existing business

“Covers new tax breaks, rules, forms and publications relevant to small-business owners.” — Reference & Research Book News

“This book is one of the best plain-language books on small-business taxes.” –The Wall Street Journal

“This book is one of the best plain-language books on small-business taxes.” — The Wall Street Journal

“This plain-English guide will show you how to make the most of your tax-deductions.” — BusinessWeek

“[One of] the hottest books to help you comply with (and maybe get a refund from) Uncle Sam.” — Entrepreneur.com

Review of this Tax Guide for Small Business

“This plain-English guide will show you how to make the most of your tax deductions.”

“Covers a wide range of topics, from selecting a marketable name to small business laws, taxes and contracts.” — Miami Herald

“Step-by-step legal guide that covers a wide range of topics…” — Kansas City Star

“Very strongly recommended… simply outstanding business instructional guide…” — The Bookwatch

Answers important questions, including whether to incorporate and how to price merchandise.” — Real Simple magazine

Small Business Start-Up Kit Description

The best step-by-step guide to starting a business available!

Many people dream of running a business of their own — but often don’t know how to start. Sound familiar? This book can help.

User-friendly and loaded with tips, The Small Business Start-Up Kit shows you how to launch a business quickly, easily and with confidence. It explains in plain English how to: