How to Incorporate: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs and Professionals

By Julie L. Williams and Michael R. Diamond

Book Overview

The definitive guide to incorporating for small business owners and entrepreneurs * Should I incorporate my business? * Which form of corporation will best help me achieve long-term business goals? * What legal liabilities do I assume when I incorporate? * How do I take full advantage of corporate tax regulations? Get detailed answers to these and all your other questions about incorporating your business in How to Incorporate, Fifth Edition. Attorney Michael Diamond weighs the pros and cons of incorporating, helps you choose the form of corporation that's best for you, and helps you structure your corporation for maximum legal, tax, and business advantage. This edition covers all the latest changes in corporation and partnership laws and includes up-to-the-minute information, advice, and guidance on every topic of concern to business owners dealing with the issues and difficulties of incorporating. You'll find up-to-the-minute information on: * When to form a standard corporation and when to go with an alternative, such as Subchapter S, partnerships, limited liability corporations, and proprietorships * How to make statutory requirements work to your advantage * Executive compensation and how to take tax-free benefits out of your corporation * How to handle special agreements, securities laws, forms of incorporation, stockholders, dividends, and more * How to complete IRS forms, take minutes, create bylaws, and post notices of meetings * How to use incorporation forms for many different states as well as forms for general use based on the Model Business Corporation Act

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470119292
• ISBN13: 9780470119297
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

How to Incorporate

It is a good all around book. It is a good buy and mailed fast. But if you want to incorporate in a certain state then it may or may not be for you.

Good book on incorporating your business

How to Incorporate is an excellent book to show the average guy how to incorporate. It is an easy read and packed with good information.Some other books you will want to read are Form Your Own Corporation and Launch a Business In Any State by J.W. Dicks, Inc. Yourself by Judith McQuown and Incorporating Your Business for Dummies by The Company Corporation. For more information on S-Corporations, How To Form A S-Corporation by Robert Cooke is the best book that I have found and the one most recommended by successfult business people.

Technical and Well Rounded

This book is basically a textbook, as it contains a lot of the details that are common to incorporation in any state. While the authors have stayed general enough to remain in an interstate appeal, they have still covered almost every legal aspect of incorporating, WITHOUT giving advice as to what you should do. Also covered are: sole proprietorships and limited liability coporations/partnerships and more. Good buy if you want a good cursory understanding of business vehicles. I recommend it. Please vote if this did help you.

An excellent addition to any entrepreneur?s library

This book is excellent! I have a Ph.D. and an MBA and have taken a lot of courses and read lots of books, business and otherwise. This text summarizes a lot of important information into a small book. This is not for simpletons, rather it gives important information for anyone wishing to incorporate.

Covers important topics, a little confusingly written

It's really helpful in that it covers a bunch of the basic points. Ironically, I wish it focused on the tax implications of losses (to be expected in startups) as much profits :). I also found some of the writing confusing -- like in covering LLCs, it compares some facets of them to other corporate before really explaining how they work. But I liked the book, thinking it basically helps me have a more informed conversation with a lawyer, which I think is essential (since regulations change so fast, and can be state-specific).