Starting a Business

Many people often dream of starting a business of their own. While these entrepreneurs in-the-making may have terrific ideas, they may not know quite where to start given all the issues associated with complying with federal and state laws, accounting and so on. Below, we have prepared topics of general information pertaining to starting your own business. We will continue to add more articles of interest to this page from time to time so be sure to check back again.

List of articles:

How to write a business plan  - Discusses the issues involved with writing this important document.

Watch video on business planning


Selecting a name for your business - Discusses some of the factors to consider.
Business entities - A discussion of the different choices and the attributes of each.
Filing new business registrations - Discusses some of the applications and forms to be filed when starting up.
How to setup a bookkeeping system - Discusses the recordkeeping requirements of a business.
Risk management - Provides a general overview of the different types of insurance coverages for businesses.
10 business planning ideas - for starting and running a successful business.

We also have a "New Business Starter Kit" CD-Rom for you.
It's loaded with lots of helpful information on a variety of topics related to launching and sustaining a new business.  For example:

1) A new business checklist of things to do when starting a business.
2) Ways to manage your cash flow
3) Ideas for marketing and gaining new customers
4) Help for business in preparing for tax filings
5) Legal tips for how to structure your business, creating contracts etc.
6) Help in creating a business plan
7) Things to know about hiring employees and setting up payroll
8) 10 mistakes that every new business needs to avoid
9) QuickBooks trial software that you can load directly from this CD

Click here to request this CD