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What Should Be Included in an Employee Handbook?

You depend on your employees for your business to thrive. You want your employees to meet, and exceed, your expectations. However, in order to do that your employees need to understand those expectations. In that regard, many employers, particularly employers with many employees, find it useful to create employee handbooks. In addition to clearly communicating the employer’s expectations […]

Due Diligence in Business Mergers and Acquisitions

Business transactions often require that many people trust a few people to make important decisions about investing money, buying or selling businesses, or pieces of businesses, and other complicated matters. The law protects all of the people affected by the business decision by requiring those charged with making the decision to exercise due diligence.  Due diligence […]

Letters of Intent and Term Sheets

The important principles of letters of intent and term sheets are not dissimilar to the standards you learned in high school. Both letters of intent and term sheets are essentially outlines of a contract that is yet to be drafted by the parties. They provide the most important parts of the agreement between the parties in […]

How Do I Resolve a Dispute Regarding Billing, Quality of Repairs, or Warranties?

Document all transactions as well as your experiences with dates, times, expenses, and the names of people you dealt with. Talk to the shop manager or owner first. If that doesn`t work, contact your Attorney General or local consumer protection agency for help. These offices may have information on alternative dispute resolution programs in your […]

What is equity financing?

Businesses are usually expensive to open and operate and many businesses need investors in order to make the business successful. One way in which business owners can get funds for their business is through equity financing. Equity financing allows people (or other businesses) to invest in the business in exchange for an ownership interest in that company. The […]

What is debt financing?

Debt financing is a way for businesses to get the capital that they need to open or to operate an existing business. Debt financing is when a person, business, bank or other entity provides capital to a business and the business has the obligation to pay back the principal on that loan plus an agreed […]

Business Finance Laws

Finances are obviously a huge part of doing business in a free market, and, as a result, many laws have been crafted to govern exactly how businesses are allowed to operate. These laws have many foci, but they are generally aimed to make sure that competition between corporations and businesses is always fair, that investors […]

The Sarbanes Oxley Act: Success or Failure?

After the Enron scandal shocked the world and created doubt about the accounting principles of public companies, the United States Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act created new standards that had to be met by publicly traded companies and accounting companies. It was designed to protect shareholders from fraud that could ultimately destroy […]

How to Finance Your New Business

Starting a new business is never easy, and unless you’re independently wealthy, you’ll need some money from another source to get off the ground. If you aren’t lucky enough to be able to borrow money from family members or friends, you’ll need to borrow money from a bank or other lender. Personal Credit Is Risky […]

The Board of Directors Duties of Care and Loyalty

The stock market gives many Americans a chance to have a small ownership share in publicly traded companies. Stock holders, as partial owners of the company, share in the company’s profit and loss. However, they often have little, if any, say in the business decisions of the company and they have no control over the everyday […]