Rating: Summary: Okay as a primer Review: Incorporating your business for Dummies is okay if you are brand new and know nothing about incoporating or business. It does offer some good, but very basic advice.Two better books are Inc. Yourself: How To Profit By Setting Up Your Own Corporation by Judith McQuown and Form Your Own Corporation and Launch a Business in Any State by J.W. Dicks. Another good read is Inc. and Grow Rich by C.W. Allen et all. With Incorporating your business for dummies, you would be better off borrowing it FREE from your local library. It's really very basic stuff here.
Rating: Summary: Ignore first 2 reviews - this is a good book Review: It is so blatantly obvious that the first two reviews were written by the same person--DUH! No doubt this individual would rather have you buy books on Incorporating by no-name self publishers who offer only generic advice. I previewed this book at Barnes & Noble and spoke with some other business people there who highly recommend this book. Now that I have read it and am using it, I recommend it also. In Incorporating for dummies you will learn -the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating -state and federal laws about corporations -the ins and outs of filing a corporate tax return -the 10 commonly made mistakes by small corporations -the best ways to create tax free medical benefits and retirement plans _a guide to business life after corporations Incorporating your business for dummies is an excellent book for anyone in business. I also recommend Inc. Yourself by Judith H. McQuown and How To Launch a Business and Incorporate in any state by J.W.Dicks. Conversely, I bought some of the "self-published" books on the internet and on sale here and was terribly dissappointed. Never buy sight unseen.
Rating: Summary: The Meek shall Incorporate Review: This book is best used to help you decide whether to incorporate your business. Most of it covers how to document your corporation's actions to keep it legal. It will not be very helpful for larger corporations because it goes into little to no detail about the more complicated issues such as selling stock and tax benefits. This is a good book to break the ice for people who are scared off by technical terms, but if you do decide to incorporate, you should plan on buying a book that covers additional topics, such as "Inc. Yourself." Likewise if this book is too complicated for you, it is a good indication that incorporation may not be the right choice for you because I doubt that you will find another book that will make it simpler to understand.
Rating: Summary: Lots of Incorrect Information Review: This book is in a word HORRIBLE. Some of this information is dangerous to someone starting up a business because it is incorrect. Unfortunately, the Wiley Dummy series hires low end authors who aren't experts and don't research the topics. The tax information on how to pay yourself a salary from a Subchapter S corporation is just plain wrong. The authors also fail to point out that if your revenues are over $85,000, you should strongly consider a C corporation. This is advantageous for various reasons, none of which you will find in this waste of a good forest.
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