How Do I Find Cash When My Credit Is Bad?
A look at various ways to raise capital when faced with cash-flow emergencies. Methods include contract financing, factoring, and microloans. Plus: a list of... Read story
Jill Andresky Fraser
Business for Sale: Southwestern Moving and Storage Company
An overview of a moving and storage company offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and ... Read story
TEC Survey Results: Business Valuations
Here are some findings from a U.S. membership survey recently conducted by TEC Worldwide Inc., an international CEO-education and -development organizatio... Read story
Hot Tip: Payroll Tax Strategy
Gerald Padian is both a partner in the New York City law firm Tashjian & Padian and an investor in a start-up restaurant. He realizes he could be responsi... Read story
What's It Worth?
When Jim Hotze and Kent Watts decided to merge their businesses, they opted for a quick, relatively cheap "limited valuation" to determine the fair market va... Read story
Business for Sale: Welsh Hunting Lodge
An overview of a Welsh hunting lodge offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and cons of... Read story
What's Hot: Business Plans
A guide to books and Web sites that can help you write a top-notch business plan. Resources include ways to make your business plan captivating and a list of... Read story
Business for Sale: Mail-Order Catalog Company
An overview of a mail-order catalog company offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and ... Read story
Business for Sale: East Coast Nursing Home
An overview of a nursing home offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and cons of the pu... Read story
What's Hot: Year-End Game
A guide to books and Web sites that can help you take advantage of corporate-tax strategies and deductions. Resources include tips from the IRS and tax-filin... Read story
Rodeo Event-Marketing Company
An overview of a rodeo-marketing company offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and con... Read story
Business for Sale: Western Credit-Reporting Agency
An overview of a credit-reporting agency offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and con... Read story
Is Internet Financing Too Good to Be True?
Inc. 's finance editor tells what to consider before using a financing Web site to locate investors. Read story
Business for Sale: Rocky Mountain Hunting Outfitter and Guest Ranch
An overview of a big-game-hunting and guest ranch business offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, an... Read story
Divorce-Proofing Your Company
A divorce can destroy your company if you're unprepared. Here are tips on how to protect your business, including how to write a prenuptial, postnuptial, and... Read story
Retire in Style
Here's a shocker: according to a 1997 study by the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers), the most common executive perk in Ameri... Read story
The Best of Both Retirement Worlds?
Still fantasizing about a corporate tax deduction for a top-heavy benefits plan? One possibility is an age-weighted plan. Age-weighted plans can ma... Read story
The Savvy CEO's Loan Pitch
Tips for fine-tuning your loan pitch, including seven things bankers look for when a business seeks financing. Read story
Business for Sale: New England Stained-Glass Window Restorer
An overview of a stained-glass window restoration company offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and... Read story
Get the Best Plan
We asked Dan Maul, president of Retirement Planning Associates, in Kirkland, Wash., for some advice on how tocomparison shop for a retirement plan among i... Read story
Business for Sale: North Carolina Child-Care Center
An overview of a child-care center offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and cons of t... Read story
Do I Need a Top-Tier Accounting Firm?
If you're planning to take your small company public, you probably don't need to go to a Big Six accounting firm. Here are some affordable alternatives. Read story
Business for Sale: Historic Southwestern 'Events House'
An overview of a wedding-and-banquet hall offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and co... Read story
Year 2000 Costs: The Silver Lining
If your company is dealing with the headaches caused by the infamous Year 2000 bug -- the problems that will strike a lot of hardware and software o... Read story
What's Hot: Analyzing Financials
A guide to books and Web sites dedicated to helping entrepreneurs brush up on their financial-management skills. Read story
Business for Sale: West Coast Equipment-Rental Co.
An overview of an equipment-rental company offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and c... Read story
What's Hot:Collections
A guide to books and Web sites devoted to improving bill collections. Read story
Some Assembly Required
Small companies often have to draw financing from several different backers. Here are several questions to answer before entering a layered financing arrange... Read story
Business for Sale: Mid-Atlantic Internet Service Provider
An overview of an Internet service provider offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and ... Read story
Reduce Your Audit Risk
You've probably already figured out that as a business owner your odds of getting audited by the IRS are much higher than they'd be if you were a corporat... Read story
Business for Sale: California Nudist Resort
An overview of a California nudist resort offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and co... Read story
Know Your Options
A look at different stock option plans, including nonqualified plans and ISOs. Includes an explanation of the tax differences and ways to customize your plan. Read story
How to Finance Anything
A look at the best places to find financing, including private-equity investors, banks, venture capitalists, and non-banks. Also, some common pitfalls to avo... Read story
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Capital Resources
A listing of books and Web sites that can help you find financing. Topics include private investors, bank loans, debt, economic-development programs, factori... Read story
The American Dream
A look at a West coast manufacturer of laminated boards up for sale. Includes price, how the business was valued, the outlook on future sales, and the pros a... Read story
The American Dream
An overview of a Florida marketing-communications firm offered for sale, including the price, growth potential, and the pros and cons of the purchase. Read story
Hire Finance
At what point in your company's growth are your bookkeeper and controller out of their league? A look at choosing the right time to hire a CFO, where to find... Read story
Growth Company Seeks CFO
So you've decided it's time to hire a CFO? Now comes the hard part: finding the person with the right training and experience plus a temperament that suit... Read story
Indecent Exposure
A look at investing in a turbulent stock market. Here are some suggestions for protecting yourself from a sudden downturn. Also: alternatives to stock invest... Read story
Perfect Form
Deborah Williams of Black Cat Computer Wholesale describes how she changed her company from a sole proprietorship to an S-corporation to a C-corporation in h... Read story
