Advising The Small Business

Advising the Small Business, Second Edition is a guide for general practitioners, small firm attorneys, and lawyers engaged in providing legal counsel to small, privately-held businesses. It provides extensive guidance on a number of issues that small businesses commonly face, as well as sample documents, checklists, and resources for obtaining additional forms and information.

Starting a Successful Business in Canada Kit: Everything you need to know about turning your good idea into a profitable business is explored and explained in this informative guide. This Canadian best-seller is packed with practical, useful information that will help you to master the start-up procedure. Even if you already run your own business, the skills you learn from this book will assist you every day and in every aspect of your business. Whether you want to establish a sole proprietorship, incorporate, or seek venture capital, this book explores each of the options and warns of the possible problems.Canadian Legal Guide for Small Business: If you’re starting a small business or already own one, you need to be aware of the legal issues that you are likely to face. Lawyers can provide you with the legal information you need, but their fees are often prohibitive. This comprehensive guide will answer many of your questions, saving you both time and money - money that you can keep in your pocket. This guide covers a comprehensive array of topics – from contracts to copyright, from financing to insurance – and provides clear explanations of proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations. The information in this book will help you ensure your business achieves its maximum potential.

Managing the transition of family wealth from generation to generation is a daunting task. Families with businesses require inheritance plans that are even more complicated because wealth and worth are often intricately woven into the business. And many transition plans focus only on financial capital and ignore a family’s less tangible assets. Other plans detail the intrinsic elements of an inheritance without satisfying the practical issues. In Family Wealth Transition Planning, Bonnie Brown Hartley and Gwendolyn Griffith guide advisers to families with small businesses through the intricate process of preparing and transferring wealth to heirs. The authors take a holistic view of transition planning, focusing on the assets that fall under the umbrella of financial capital, as well as the other key sources of family wealth: human and social capital. Advisers learn the essentials to achieving successful wealth continuity: Healthy family relationships Responsible stewardship of wealth, in all forms Creation and preservation of the family legacy Throughout the book, three fictionalized business families, based on Hartley's experience as an adviser, tell their personal stories as they navigate the estate planning process. In this way, Hartley and Griffith demonstrate how to develop wealth transition plans that are wide enough in scope to encompass all forms of wealth yet customized to manage each family's different needs.

If you're starting a small business, or making major changes to your existing one, to go forward with confidence, you need to write a business plan. This widely used, practical guide shows you how to prepare an effective business plan to obtain a loan and get your business off the ground. It includes: step-by-step guidelines to create a business plan; sample business plans for a range of business types; examples, exercises, quick quizzes, activities and web references; a list of environmentally sustainable business practices; options for marketing, production, purchasing, staffing and financing; what to do when business conditions change. Writing Your Plan for Small Business Success is essential for students of small business management, as well as a valuable guide for anyone heading out on their own. It covers competencies required for the Business Services Training Package, and reflects current legislation and best practice.

This book tells small-business owners and entrepreneurs everything they need to know about turning their good ideas into profitable businesses in Canada.