Full Description

This book is designed with the aspiring corporate novice in mind. It will guide you through the start-up process and put the goals of owning your own business well within your reach.

A plain English guide to incorporate your business effortlessly:

--Prepare your formation documents with ease
--Create a long-lasting business
--Quickly complete all the required forms
--Save hundreds of dollars in expenses

Ready-To-Go Forms with step-by-step instructions.

Table of Contents

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Business Entities
--C Corporations
--S Corporations
--Professional Corporations
--Not-for-Profit Corporations
--Foreign Corporations

Chapter 2: Choosing a Name
--Selection of Corporate Name
--Fictitious Name Registration

Chapter 3: Initial Corporate Documents
--Articles of Incorporation
--Bylaws
--Registered Agents
--Organizational Meeting

Chapter 4: Specific Types of Corporations
--Electing S Corporation Status
--Foreign Business Corporations
--Professional Corporations

Chapter 5: Corporate Directors, Officers, and Committees
--Board Of Directors
--Board Of Directors’ Committees
--Officers

Chapter 6: Issuing Stock
--Capital Stock
--Pennsylvania Securities Issues
--Distributions
--Corporation’s Right to Re-Acquire Its Own Shares

Chapter 7: Shareholders
--Shareholder Meetings
--Notice of Meetings
--Date of Record
--Quorum
--Voting Rights
--Proxies
--Consent
--Inspection Rights
--Shareholders’ Receipt of Financial Records and Information

Chapter 8: Reports, Records, Bookkeeping, and Filing Registrations
--Records And Reports

Chapter 9: Tax Requirements
--Taxpayer Identification Numbers
--Federal Income Tax Filings
--State Tax Requirements

Chapter 10: Changes To The Corporation
--Articles of Amendment
--Mergers and Consolidations
--Exchange of Shares
--Corporate Asset Transfer
--Corporate Division

Chapter 11: Financing
--Sources of Financing
--Small Business Administration

Chapter 12: Training and Counseling Tools
--Business Development Assistance
--Service Corps of Retired Executives
--Small Business Institutes
--Pennsylvania Small Business Development Center Network
--Small Business Innovation and Research Program
--Procurement Automated Source System
--Minority Business Assistance
--International Trade Assistance

Chapter 13: Economically Distressed Corporations
--Out-of-Court Workout Rehabilitation
--Chapter 11 Rehabilitation
--Chapter 7 Liquidation
--Other Remedies
--Dissolution

Chapter 14: Hiring An Attorney
--Costs
--Advantages and Disadvantages to Hiring A Lawyer
--Selecting a Lawyer
--Evaluating Lawyers
--Working with a Lawyer
--Firing Your Lawyer

Glossary

Appendix A: Pennsylvania Corporate Statutes

Appendix B: Blank Forms

Index

Excerpt

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