Small Business Profiles For U S States And Territories

The Office of Advocacy is the voice of small business within the federal government. Their mission includes collecting and disseminating data on the status of American small businesses. This book provides a snapshot of small businesses in each state, territory, the District of Columbia, and the United States using the most recently available government data. The profiles showcase several different data points associated with the nation's small businesses including but not limited to the number of small businesses, how many jobs small businesses create, how many small businesses export, and the leading small business industries in each state.

This newly updated guide for matrimonial lawyers and accountants is the companion publication for Feder's Valuation Strategies in Divorce. In individual chapters, detailed information is provided on how to evaluate specific types of marital assets; the particular accounting and financial conventions that affect the owner's income from the asset and the value of the asset; and the rules, regulations and issues peculiar to the particular asset. The reader is also provided with checklists of documents needed to appraise the asset, sources of industry information, lists of trade associations and journals, a bibliography, and a case study and report. Part I on closely-held corporations contains chapters devoted to automobile dealerships, media companies, high-tech companies, property and casualty insurance companies, construction companies, and small businesses such as bars, restaurants and gas stations. Part II covers the evaluation of various professional practices, and Part III discusses the valuation of different types of real estate assets. Federal civil service pensions, military pensions and the pensions provided by Fortune 500 corporations are examined in Part IV. The methodologies for evaluating personal property, such as gems, jewelry, and oriental rugs are found in Part V. Besides aiding attorneys and accountants, this publication will be of great assistance to appraisers, actuaries, and pension experts.

Contents: Executive Summary; Section 1: Reviving Lending to Small Businesses and Families and the Impact of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan (TALF) Facility; Introduction: B. Small Business Lending; C. Family Lending; D. Securitization and the TALF; E. Small Business Credit, the TALF, and Other Efforts To Expand Small Business Access to Credit by Jump-starting Secondary Markets; F. Household Lending and the TALF; G. Conclusion; Section 2: Additional Views; Section 3: Correspondence with Treasury Update; Section 4: TARP Updates Since Last Report; Section 5: Oversight Activities; Section 6: About the Congressional Oversight Panel; Appendices. Charts and tables.

A former Congressman and the author of We Can Overcome presents his case for a conservative Texas. Texas is booming. In recent years, the Lone Star State has experienced some of the most rapid growth in the country, both in its economy and in its population. This is thanks to an influx of businesses relocating to Texas to take advantage of all its benefits. But this increase in population has also brought about a shift in the political dialogue within Texas’s borders. As more people pour into Texas, they bring with them liberal and socialist ideologies as they try to swing the state from red to blue. These plans for changing policies will suffocate the highly successful capitalist state and its residents, and according to Lt. Col. Allen West (Ret.), allowing these liberal ideals to creep into the legislative branch will be the death of Texas. In Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death, West explains how the longstanding conservative capitalist policies within the state’s government have allowed it to flourish over the years, providing hard-to-ignore evidence and allowing his experience in Congress to support his argument. He makes his stand, asserting that Texas must hold fast to its conservative ways and resist succumbing to liberal mindsets, or else cease to prosper, and begin to perish. Texas is a sustaining force for America, truly embodying the founding principles of the nation: those unalienable individual rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In Texas, it’s “Victory or Death.” Praise for Hold Texas, Hold the Nation “A must-read for anyone who bleeds red, white, and blue.” —Brian Kilmeade, cohost, Fox & Friends; host, The Brian Kilmeade Show; New York Times bestselling author

Have you ever wondered why many of the over 28 million small businesses in operation in the United States do not survive past the first five years? Is it the economy? The stock market? Or is it something else? Two years of research on factors affecting small business survival revealed a direct relationship linking management and leadership skills. ‘Management and Leadership Skills That Affect Small Business Survival’ presents the research leading to this discovery that focuses solely on small businesses in the United States and teaches small businesses how to improve management and leadership skills so that they can survive past the historical five-year failure mark.

Marketing is a challenge for really small businesses. There are not enough hours in the day for the typical microbusiness operator to tackle a complex marketing environment. Microbusiness owners also have limited financial resources. Marketing expertise is also often lacking. This book is a roadmap for microbusinesses to market with no time, no money and no expertise. Key marketing themes are identified that provide direction for microbusinesses to improve their marketing operations. This book is designed as a guide to improve microbusiness marketing results.

This publication reviews how small businesses fared in the economy, in the financial markets, and in the federal procurement marketplace, as well as new information about women in business.