PRODUCT INFORMATION:
The "Starting and Operating a Business in ..." (your state) book series, is back (all are 2007 or 2008 Editions), fully revised, and is updated to include provisions of the federal Pension Protection Act of 2006 (enacted August 17, 2006), the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 (enacted December 20, 2006), the new federal minimum wage law, and the Small Business and Work Opportunity Tax Act of 2007 (enacted May, 2007) -- See details below.
SMALL BUSINESS ADVISOR (updated regularly) is a gold mine of useful, up to date, and authoritative business, tax and legal information and customized advice for your small or startup business. Written by Michael D. Jenkins, a Harvard lawyer/CPA, the software uses artificial intelligence techniques to assemble and create a customized copy of the long time best-selling business self-help book, "Starting and Operating a Business in California" (or New York, Texas, etc., depending on which version you buy) for any of the 50 states or D.C. And it does so in a matter of seconds, on your computer (as HTML hyper-text files, readable with your web browser).
Click on any of the following items to find out more about this software and e-book series:
- View a screen shot of the Small Business Advisor main screen.
- View a customized Small Business Startup Checklist, as created by the Small Business Advisor software for a hypothetical small retail company. Law firms, accountants and other business advisors find this feature of the software to be a great time-saver, since it enables you to create and print out a comprehensive, detailed 6- to 8-page startup checklist of tax and legal requirements for your new small business clients, in about 2 minutes total, once you know your client's fact situation.
- View a sample table of contents, as created by the Small Business Advisor software for the Starting and Operating a Business in California edition, for a California manufacturer.
- download a FREE (shareware) version of the Windows software and the "Starting and Operating a Business" electronic books for 3 states (ND, VT and WY) and the District of Columbia.
- See for yourself when your state's edition of this series was last fully revised and updated.
Or check out our Small Business News page, for a sample of the kind of information you'll find every book in this series. No fluff -- just useful, carefully researched information. The books in this series lay out the ground rules you need to understand in order to start or run a business in your state.
Each of the books that can be created by this front-end software is assembled from extensive text data files by the software only after you first complete a brief interview about your business. The software uses your answers to the interview questions to create a fully-customized edition of the book (for your state), tailored specifically for your business. Each of the books the software can create includes customized information on hundreds of small business topics, information and advice on tax and legal requirements for any of the included states and D.C., and the Small Business Advisor software also creates a detailed customized business startup checklist for you, based on the facts of your small business, and the particular requirements for your state.
TOTALLY UP TO DATE INFORMATION:
NEWLY RELEASED 2007 and 2008 EDITIONS! The "national chapters" of the book have all been updated over each 12-month period through the current month, and reflect new December, 2006 and May, 2007 federal tax legislation. Each of the state chapters has been 100% updated in the last 12 months, and we completely revise and update one state chapter each week of the year, and one or two of the other 17 (federal) chapters each month, to make sure that no part of the books is ever more than one year old.Major new federal law changes are usually incorporated into the "national chapters" shortly after details of such legislation becomes available -- so the information in this book series is always fresh. Stale, out-of-date tax and legal information is useless, or even dangerous information.
Each book edition is approximately 425 to 450 pages long, if you choose to print it out from the electronic version that this software creates. And all of it is good, hard, useful information you can use, carefully researched -- no "fluff." One-click printing of the entire book is a cinch -- all you need is a printer and a ream of paper, if you want a "hard copy."
Each edition of the books consists of 17 "national" chapters and a state laws/taxes chapter for the relevant state, plus 3 appendices: a lengthy, customized business startup checklist (Appendix A); a very detailed and extensive Business Plan Outline, including step-by-step instructions for creating your business plan (Appendix B); and a file that includes links to all of the official tax and other government forms (.PDF files) that are included with this package (Appendix C).
The Small Business Advisor software that is the "front-end" for the books also includes an "Entrepreneur's Self-Test" you can take, on-screen, to help you determine how well-suited you are to starting and running your own business.
NOTE RE HARDWARE/SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
Although the Starting and Operating a Business books are electronic books, you will not need (or be able to use) one of the dedicated e-book machines to read the books in this series -- instead, you will be able to view the "Starting and Operating a Business" books on any Windows ® based desktop or laptop/notebook computer. All you need, besides your computer, is the web browser you are using to read this web page at this moment -- Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox, or other major web browser software -- and, if you wish to fill in and print out any of the tax or other government forms provided with the books, you will need the freely available Adobe Reader ® software, which is required to view or print .PDF files. (Most computer users will already have the free Adobe Reader installed.)ATTENTION, MAC USERS: FOR WINDOWS 32-BIT SYSTEMS ONLY -- NOT COMPATIBLE WITH MACINTOSH SYSTEMS. However, beginning in November, 2007, Mac users may order for the reduced price of $17.95 (instead of $29.95) a single-state version e-book only, a downloadable .PDF (e-book) version for the state you request. The e-book file is identical to the "generic version" book that is created by the software (since we use the software to create the book file, before converting it to a .PDF file), but it will not be customized to reflect the facts of your particular business, unlike the $29.95 version that includes the Windows front-end software. NOTE: Mac versions are not available for all states at present. Email us at mdjenk @ aol.com to find out if we have a current .PDF version for your state and to obtain an ordering link if available.
(Access to the Internet is not required to run the program or view the books the Small Business Advisor software will create for you, although such access can be helpful, if you wish to go immediately to various government or other web sites that the books link to, to download additional tax forms or publications, etc.)
Earlier versions of the Small Business Advisor and the (prior) print versions of the "Starting and Operating a Business in ..." (state) book series have been used nationwide by SBA offices, SCORE counselors, and Small Business Development Centers, and well over a million copies of the print versions were sold before it was discontinued by our previous publishers. The author of the original (MS-DOS) version of Small Business Advisor and of the "Starting and Operating a Business in ..." series of books, Michael D. Jenkins, re-acquired the rights to both the software and the book series in 2004, and has created all-new versions of each, in this new combined format, where the Small Business Advisor software actually assembles the "Starting and Operating a Business" book editions on your hard disk, from extensive text data files, and also creates customized, comprehensive business startup checklists, among other tasks.
More than a series of simple e-books, the Small Business Advisor software program interviews you to obtain a number of key facts about your existing or planned business, and then uses that information to create a "customized" book for you, in the form of HTML (hypertext) files and customized startup checklists. The resulting e-book and startup checklist items will all reflect both federal laws and the laws of the selected state, and are based on factors such as the type of business, number of employees, type of legal entity, and other facts entered by you in the brief interview. Thus, the authoritative text and checklists presented are highly specific and germane to the YOUR specific small business, unlike printed books or other (static) electronic books.
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Or, for more information on any state edition of the "Starting and Operating a Business" electronic book series, click on the state name in the table below.
