If you are one of those people who have ever accidentally lost or spent far too much time rifling through drawers for that particular file, you may be interested to know that modern technology can change your unorganized drawers full of paperwork into digital format, with many added benefits. 1. The Benefits of Digital Format: [...]
Many entrepreneurs have preconceived notions about taking their company public, most of which are not accurate. Nine little known facts: 1. You do not need a brokerage firm or investment banking firm to take your company public. Many companies opt to go public through a direct public offering. In these registered public offerings, a private [...]
The direct public offering offers a relatively unique form of financing that is just beginning to catch on with business owners and individual investors. In a direct public offering, a business issues registered shares without the full expense of an initial public offering. Since direct public offerings are issued through officers and directors, there are [...]
American Telephone and Telegraph, or AT&T, is one of the oldest telephone communications corporations still in existence. Based in San Antonio Texas, AT&T today is the largest provider of phone services in the United States, dominating not only local and long distance LAN lines but also the wireless market as well. Their stock is available [...]
Initial public offering can be an excellent way for a corporation to raise a large amount of capital. In an initial public offering, a corporation’s shares are made available to the general public, thus providing a substantial influx of cash. The term applies only the first of such offerings, and any later offerings are referred [...]
Demanding. Tough. Aggressive. Apply these words to a man and it’s a compliment. Say the same things about a woman and it’s not quite so flattering. Any woman who’s spent time in the business world knows all too well about the double bind that requires us to act like men in order to get ahead [...]
The IRS issued the February 14, 2006 Quality Assurance Bulletin (“QAB”) dealing with 401k plan exclusions of part-time, temporary, and seasonal (A.K.A. “part-time”) employees. T This QAB revolutionizes the way IRS document examiners will look at 401k plan eligibility clauses and warns that inadequately drafted provisions dealing with part-time employees may be disqualifying, regardless of [...]
A corporation is a legal entity that separates the persons owning or operating a business from the actual business itself. They are set up to protect individuals from a range of possible damages and obligations that might occur as a result of doing business. Unlike other forms of business registration the owners of a corporation [...]
Corporate credit is one of the things that helps make the business world go round. It allows the free exchange of goods and services without having to wait until the money is actually in the bank in order to deliver or receive the goods and services of small, medium and large businesses. It lets small [...]
The best laid plans of mice and men never seem to get implemented. A vexing question for anyone planning a change is, Will all this planning really make a difference?” Many quality or strategic planning teams find themselves hampered by the suspicion that it’s all really an exercise in futility and nothing will ever change. [...]