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- A Model of Excellence
- A Story About Great Production
- Absolute Dollars
- Accelerated Depreciation – An Explanation
- Accounting
- Accounting Principles
- Accounts Payable Turnover Rate (Ratio)
- Accounts Receivable Turnover Ratio
- Accrued Payroll – An Explanation
- Advertising – Monitor Performance
- Age Discrimination – Small Business Impact
- Aggregate and Entity Theories of Partnership
- Alcohol Costs – Monitor Closely
- Allowances in New Home Construction Contracts – The Business Model
- Amortization of Financing Costs
- An Explanation of Current Assets
- An Explanation of Goodwill – Part I – Generating Goodwill
- An Explanation of Inventory Turnover
- An Introduction to the Employee Manual (Handbook)
- Apartment Complex Profit and Loss Statement – (Revenue Section) Best Presentation Format
- At-Risk Rules – An Elementary Understanding
- At-Will Employment Doctrine
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- Bank Reconciliations – Fundamentals
- Basic Economic Principle of Time and Money
- Basis for Tax Purposes
- Basis in Business
- Best Format for the Construction Profit and Loss Statement
- Book Value – Definition and Usage
- Bookkeeping – A Simple Payroll (Lesson 31)
- Bookkeeping – Accounting Cycles (Lesson 29)
- Bookkeeping – Accounts Payable Management (Lesson 43)
- Bookkeeping – Accounts Receivable Management (Lesson 37)
- Bookkeeping – Adjusting Journal Entries (Lesson 67)
- Bookkeeping – Advanced Skillsets (Lesson 70)
- Bookkeeping – Amortization (Lesson 53)
- Bookkeeping – Auto Costs Related to Owners and Family Members (Lesson 62)
- Bookkeeping – Bank Reconciliations (Lesson 47)
- Bookkeeping – Book and Tax Depreciation (Lesson 52)
- Bookkeeping – Cafeteria Plans (Lesson 92)
- Bookkeeping – Cash Disbursements (Lesson 45)
- Bookkeeping – Cash or Accrual (Lesson 25)
- Bookkeeping – Charitable Giving (Lesson 64)
- Bookkeeping – Chart of Accounts Using the Numbering System (Lesson 18)
- Bookkeeping – Closing the Books (Lesson 69)
- Bookkeeping – Completed Contract Accounting (Lesson 75)
- Bookkeeping – Complex Entries Expanded (Lesson 66)
- Bookkeeping – Control Accounts (Lesson 22)
- Bookkeeping – Controlling Cash (Lesson 48)
- Bookkeeping – Controls in Accounting (Lesson 95)
- Bookkeeping – Cost Accounting (Lesson 77)
- Bookkeeping – Departmental Accounting (Lesson 71)
- Bookkeeping – Depreciation Schedules (Lesson 51)
- Bookkeeping – Employee Benefits (Lesson 35)
- Bookkeeping – Employee Benefits (Lesson 88)
- Bookkeeping – Employee Health Insurance Mandate (Lesson 89)
- Bookkeeping – Employer Provided Retirement Plans (Lesson 90)
- Bookkeeping – Employer Provided Vehicle (Lesson 94)
- Bookkeeping – Estimates (Lesson 82)
- Bookkeeping – Estimating Bad Debts (Lesson 85)
- Bookkeeping – Estimating Depreciation (Lesson 83)
- Bookkeeping – Estimating Employee Benefits (Lesson 84)
- Bookkeeping – Estimating Extraordinary Items (Lesson 87)
- Bookkeeping – Estimating Warranties (Lesson 86)
- Bookkeeping – Fixed Asset Purchases (Lesson 49)
- Bookkeeping – Franchise Fee and Revenue Taxes (Lesson 57)
- Bookkeeping – Health Savings, Reimbursement and Flexible Spending Accounts (Lesson 91)
- Bookkeeping – Internal Accounts (Lesson 79)
- Bookkeeping – Introduction to Depreciation (Lesson 50)
- Bookkeeping – Loan Accounting (Lesson 54)
- Bookkeeping – Meals Tax (Lesson 56)
- Bookkeeping – Mileage Reimbursement (Lesson 61)
- Bookkeeping – Other Employer Provided Benefits (Lesson 93)
- Bookkeeping – Other Expenses and Revenue (Lesson 19)
- Bookkeeping – Other Taxes (Lesson 59)
- Bookkeeping – Other Transportation Costs (Lesson 63)
- Bookkeeping – Payroll Compliance and Documentation (Lesson 33)
- Bookkeeping – Payroll Cycles (Lesson 32)
- Bookkeeping – Payroll Structure (Lesson 30)
- Bookkeeping – Percentage of Completion Method (Lesson 74)
- Bookkeeping – Petty Cash (Lesson 44)
- Bookkeeping – Phase Costing (Lesson 73)
- Bookkeeping – Policies and Procedures (Lesson 96)
- Bookkeeping – Project (Job) Costing (Lesson 72)
- Bookkeeping – Proper Balance Sheet Presentation (Lesson 20)
- Bookkeeping – Proper Income Statement Presentation (Lesson 21)
- Bookkeeping – Purchases Via Credit Cards (Lesson 42)
- Bookkeeping – Quarterly and Annual Payroll Reports (Lesson 34)
- Bookkeeping – Recurring Entries (Lesson 65)
- Bookkeeping – Regulator Accounts (Lesson 80)
- Bookkeeping – Restricted Accounts (Lesson 81)
- Bookkeeping – Retail Accounting with Item Tracking (Lesson 76)
- Bookkeeping – Sales Via Debit and Credit Cards (Lesson 38)
- Bookkeeping – Schedules (Lesson 23)
- Bookkeeping – Suspense Accounts (Lesson 55)
- Bookkeeping – Temporary Accounts (Lesson 78)
- Bookkeeping – The Accounting Equation (Lesson 24)
- Bookkeeping – Tracking Cash (Lesson 46)
- Bookkeeping – Tracking Income Taxes (Lesson 58)
- Bookkeeping – Tracking Invoices (Lesson 36)
- Bookkeeping – Tracking Purchases (Lesson 41)
- Bookkeeping – Tracking Returns and Allowances (Lesson 39)
- Bookkeeping – Tracking Sales Tax (Lesson 40)
- Bookkeeping – Trial Balance Advanced Concepts (Lesson 68)
- Bookkeeping – Various Terms (Lesson 26)
- Bookkeeping – Vehicle Operations and Accounting (Lesson 60)
- Bookkeeping – You are a Bookkeeper Now (Lesson 28)
- Bookkeeping – Account Types (Lesson 1)
- Bookkeeping – Chart of Accounts (Lesson 11)
- Bookkeeping – Complex Entries (Lesson 15)
- Bookkeeping – Contra Accounts (Lesson 12)
- Bookkeeping – Debits and Credits in Asset Accounts (Lesson 4)
- Bookkeeping – Debits and Credits in Cost of Sales Accounts (Lesson 7)
- Bookkeeping – Debits and Credits in Equity Accounts (Lesson 10)
- Bookkeeping – Debits and Credits in Expense Accounts (Lesson 8)
- Bookkeeping – Debits and Credits in Liability Accounts (Lesson 5)
- Bookkeeping – Debits and Credits in Parenthesis with the Profit and Loss Statement (Lesson 14)
- Bookkeeping – Debits and Credits in Revenue Accounts (Lesson 6)
- Bookkeeping – Debits and Credits with Parenthesis on the Balance Sheet (Lesson 13)
- Bookkeeping – Debits and Credits with the Trial Balance (Lesson 16)
- Bookkeeping – Dual Entry System (Lesson 2)
- Bookkeeping – Financial Statement Relationships (Lesson 9)
- Bookkeeping – Ledgers and Journals (Lesson 3)
- Bookkeeping – Parent–Child Accounts (Lesson17)
- Bookkeeping with QuickBooks (Lesson 27)
- Booth Rental – Legal and IRS Compliance
- Branching Out in Construction
- Breakeven Analysis – Fundamentals
- Business and Industry Growth
- Business Barriers
- Business Dynamics of Hauling
- Business Leadership Tips
- Business Ratios (Introduction)
- Business Trusts
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- Calculating the Value of a Business – Discretionary Income Multiplier Formula
- Capital Account – Business Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies
- Capital Expenditures – IRS Definition
- Capital Gains – Introduction to Fundamentals
- Capitalization of Overhead in Construction – Section 263(a)
- Capitalizing a New Home Builder Business
- Carpet Cleaning Service – Margins and Expenses
- Cash Counts
- Cash Flow – A Basic Definition
- Cash Flow From Operations – Basic Formula
- Cash Flow From Operations – Understanding Cash Flow (Part II)
- Cash Flows – Introduction
- Cash is King – The Value of Cash Flow
- Cash Ratio
- Chart of Accounts – Layout
- Choose The Right Accounting Software
- Common Stock – Definition
- Completed Contract Method of Accounting in the Construction Industry
- Construction Accounting – Balance Sheet Construction in Process Accounts
- Construction Accounting Terminology
- Construction Draw Schedule
- Construction Draw Schedule – Ranch Model Home
- Constructive Dividends – Definition, Understanding and Application
- Contract
- Contractor’s Profitability
- Control Accounts in Accounting
- Controlling Food Costs in the Restaurant Industry
- Controlling Labor Costs in a Restaurant
- Convertible Debt
- Corporate Documents – Introduction
- Cost Accounting – Case Study
- Cost Codes – Subset of Item Codes
- Cost Drivers in Small Business
- Cost of Sales – Various Formats
- Cost per Mile – The Basic Formula
- Create a File Structure for Accounting
- Cross Purchase Agreements – Business Issues
- Crowdfunding in Small Business
- Current Liabilities Section of the Balance Sheet
- Current Ratio
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- Debt or Equity in Small Business – Fundamentals
- Debt Ratio
- Debt to Equity Ratio
- Deferred (Unearned) Revenue – Definition and Accounting Procedures
- Definition of Contribution Margin
- Depreciation – This is Weird Accounting
- Develop a Position Profile
- Direct Form of Compensation – Four Different Types
- Discounts – Various Meanings in Business
- Dividends and Distributions – Use in the Proper Context
- Do I Need a Business Plan?
- Don’t Flip Them, Finance The Flip!
- Double Taxation – Not an Issue in Small Business
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- EBITDA
- EBITDA – Buyer Beware (Case Study)
- EBITDA – Drawbacks
- Economic Bubble – The Great Dutch Tulip Craze
- Economic Substance Principle
- Economies of Scale
- Effective Internal Controls for Cash
- Elasticity in Economics
- Errors and Omissions Insurance
- Estate Tax – The Basics
- Estimated Tax Payments – Why and How
- Exempt and Non-Exempt Employees
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- Fair Labor Standards Act – HR Compliance
- Fair Market Value
- Feedback Loop in Business – Identification and Parameters
- Financial Leverage in Real Estate
- Financial Statements for the Small Business
- Find the Bottleneck
- Fixed and Variable Costs in a Restaurant
- Fixed Asset Turnover Rate
- Fixed Assets To Debt Relationship
- Fixed Costs – Explanation and Examples
- Flake Cereal – The Story of Will Keith Kellogg
- Flipping Houses – Proper Inventory Turnover Rate
- Focus Groups – Adding Real Value to Your Business
- Food Service – An Introduction to Owning a Restaurant
- Form 1041 – Income Tax Return for Estates
- Form 1099-C: Cancellation of Debt
- Form 941 – The Basics
- Form 990 – Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax
- Form W-4 – Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate
- Format of the Profit and Loss Statement for Service Related Businesses
- Forms of Business Ownership
- Franchise Agreement Costs – How Much Does it Really Cost to be a Franchisee?
- Franchise Fee, Royalty Fee, License and Marketing Fee – Franchise Agreement Terminology
- Front and Back Offices -Differences
- Fuel Tax Credit
- Fundraising with Bowling – An Effective Event
- Fundraising with Golf – Does it Work?
- FUTA – An Explanation to the Federal Unemployment Tax Act
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- Hair Stylist Compensation Model
- Heads on Beds – Hotel Management
- Hiring Process – 5 Steps
- Hobbies – Business Perspective and Tax Compliance
- Hospitality Industry Characterized by High Fixed Costs
- House Flipping – Business Dynamics
- How is a Sole Proprietorship Taxed? Understanding Schedule C
- How is Cost of Goods Sold in Retail Determined?
- How Much is a Fair Profit? Part I of V – Owner Compensation
- How Much is a Fair Profit? Part II of V – The Economic Cycle
- How Much is a Fair Profit? – Part IV of V Return on Capital
- How Much is a Fair Profit? Part III of V – Risk
- How to Calculate the Best Markup for a Construction Project
- How to Find a Good Business Attorney
- How to Find Investment Capital – The Family Connection
- How to Find Investment Capital – The Vendor Connection
- How to Make Money in Business
- How to Purchase Equipment for a Restaurant – Business Finesse
- How to Purchase Equipment for a Restaurant – Planning Phase
- How to Purchase Equipment for a Restaurant – Research Phase
- How to Read a Balance Sheet – Simple Format
- How to Read a Balance Sheet – Equity Section (Simple Format)
- How to Start a Non-Profit Organization: Step 1 – Form a Brain Trust
- How to Start a Non-Profit Organization: Step 2 – Founding Board Membership
- How to Start a Non-Profit Organization: Step 3 – The First Board Meeting
- How to Use Class Accounting in Construction
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- I-9 Compliance
- Implement Cost Accounting in Construction – Document Flow System
- Implement Cost Accounting in Construction – File Structure
- Implement Cost Accounting in Construction – Processing Documents
- Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA’s) – Basic Rules
- Information Technology – Economic Forces at Work
- Insolvency and Bankruptcy – Know the Difference
- Insurance – Introduction to Business Insurance
- Interest Coverage Ratio
- Internal Controls – Fixed Assets
- Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Internal Revenue Service – Definition of Revenue
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Definition of an Expense
- Introduction to Franchises
- Introduction to Human Resources Management
- Introduction to Non-Profit Organizations – A Comparison to Profit Driven Businesses
- Inventory – How to Finance
- Inventory Management – Specific Identification Method
- Inventory Turnover Rate
- Item Codes – Fundamental Understanding
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- Labor Availability – How to Calculate Maximum Available Hours
- Labor Burden Rate – Introduction and Understanding
- Landlord – Business Dynamics and Economics
- Lease or Buy
- Leverage in Business
- Lien – Simple, Business and Legal Definitions
- Limited Liability Company – Introduction to Basic Principles
- Limited Liability Company – Step By Step Setup
- Liquidity – What Does This Mean?
- Local Revenue Tax – The Business License
- Long Term Debt – Explanation and General Understanding
- Long Term Debt – Financial Statement Presentation
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- Mailbox Rule in Business
- Marginal Revenue in Business
- Margins in Construction
- Marketing – A License to Steal
- Markup in Construction – Fundamental Understanding
- Markup Percentage for Remodelers
- Methods to Reduce Costs in New Home Construction
- Microbusiness
- Mileage Deduction – Rate for 2015
- Mileage Deduction – New Rate for 2013
- Mileage Deduction – Rate for 2014
- Mission Statement
- Mixed Costs
- Mobile Food Vending – Profitability and Issues
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- Occupancy Rate – How to Evaluate
- Office Management- Introduction
- Open Job Cost Status Report
- Operate Within Your Range of Production
- Operating Cash Ratio – Formula and Understanding
- Operating Control Reports in Business
- Operating Profit Margin – Formula and Understanding
- Organizational Expenses – Types and Tax Implications
- Overhead – General Definition
- Owner Compensation in an S-Corporation
- Owner’s Draw in Business
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- P&L Statement – Best Format for Salons
- Partnership Agreements – An Introduction
- Partnership Agreements – Managing, General and Limited Partners
- Partnership Agreements – Terminology
- Passive Income
- Payroll – Introduction to Basic Concepts
- Penny Stocks- Introduction
- People, Process & Product – The Profit
- Percentage of Completion Method for Accounting in Construction
- Perpetual Inventory
- Phantom Income
- Phase Codes and Cost Codes with QuickBooks and Construction Accounting
- Piercing the Corporate Veil
- Pizza Restaurant Audit Guide used by the Internal Revenue Service
- Point of Sale System – Introduction
- Pooling of Costs – Basic Understanding
- Price to Earnings Ratio – Introduction and Interpretation
- Production – Where the Rubber Meets the Road
- Profit
- Profit and Loss Statement Using Class Accounting
- Profit Shifting in Small Business – Internal Shifting
- Profit Standards for Residential Contractors
- Progress Billings in Construction
- Project Accounting – Introduction and Value
- Project Accounting Principles for Residential Contractors
- Project Reports – Introduction
- Public Charity – Getting Started with the Proper Documents
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- Real Estate Agent – Drawbacks and Delusions
- Real Estate Investment Trusts – REITs
- Real Estate Syndication
- Realized and Unrealized Gains or Losses
- Recourse and Nonrecourse Types of Loans
- Referrals in Business
- Replacement Reserves- Understanding the Fundamentals
- Research Your Business Plan – Part I
- Research Your Business Plan – Part II
- Research Your Business Plan – Part III
- Restaurant Profit and Loss Statement – Best Format to Use
- Retail Sales: There Are No Rules
- Retained Earnings – How it Works
- Retaining Stylists In The Hair Industry
- Return on Assets
- Return on Equity
- Returns, Allowances and Discounts in Accounting
- Revenue (Sales) Codes
- Revenue and Sales – What is the Difference?
- Roofer – Business Dynamics
- Rule of 72
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- Self-Employment Tax: You Can Stop Staring At Me Now!
- Service Equals Timeliness and Accuracy
- Shareholder Agreement – Capitalization Clause
- Shareholder Dynamics in Small Business
- Simple Retirement Plan – Section 408(p)
- Skimming in Business
- Small Business Administration – Capital, Development & Contracting
- Small Business Model Series Entry # 5 – Whew!
- Small Business Model Series Entry #1 – Getting an Idea
- Small Business Model Series Entry #2 – Narrowing the Idea
- Small Business Model Series Entry #3 – Automated Teller Machines
- Small Business Model Series Entry #4 – Basic Research
- Small Business Model Series Entry #6 – Number Crunching Time
- Small Business Model Series Entry #7 – Location, Location, Location
- Small Business Tax Depreciation – Section 179
- SS-4 IRS Application for an Employer Identification Number
- Stability of Historical Earnings
- Stock
- Stock – Fundamentals of Ownership and Control
- Substitution Principle in Business
- Syndication
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- Tangible and Intangible – Business Definitions and Use
- Tax Basis of Accounting – Accrual or Cash
- Team Based Pay in the Hair Salon Industry – A Critique
- Tenancy in Partnership
- The 1099 Subcontractor
- The 501(c)3 Organization
- The Basic Principles of a Partnership
- The Contractor Subcontractor Relationship – An Understanding
- The Cost of One Putt
- The Definition of Fixed Assets
- The Definition of the Different Types of Residential Contractors
- The Difference between Marketing and Advertising
- The Different Forms of Compensation
- The Different Types of Bank Loans
- The Federal Reserve System
- The Financial Truth about Flipping Houses
- The Fixed Assets Section of the Balance Sheet
- The Franchise Agreement – Geographical Territory Clause
- The Franchise Relationship
- The Key Man
- The Sole Proprietorship – The Basics
- The Three Best Methods of Marketing
- The True Cost of Labor
- The Value of a Handshake and a Smile
- The Various Forms of Depreciation
- Three Ownership Interests Exist as an Entrepreneur
- Three Primary Characteristics of Successful Businesses
- Throughput – Business Definition and Identification
- Time for Those W-2’s
- Tip Income – Employer Responsibilities
- Total Assets Turnover Rate – Formula and Analysis
- Travel Expenses – Per Diem Methods
- Treasury Stock – Fundamentals of Stock
- Trial Balance – Purpose and Interpretation
- Types of Business Entities – Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, Corporation & Limited Liability Company
- Types of Business Models
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- What are Trusts?
- What is ‘Cost of Goods Sold’?
- What is a ‘Spec’ House?
- What is a Contract?
- What is a K-1?
- What is a Living Trust?
- What is a Reasonable Profit in Construction?
- What is Accrual Accounting?
- What is Amortization?
- What is an Audit?
- What is an S-Corporation?
- What is the Difference between Markup and Margin?
- What Startup Owners Can Learn from Expert Traders
- Who is Your Customer?
- Why You Should Incorporate Your Business
- Winding Up (Going Out of Business)
- Work in Process as a Control Account
- Worker’s Compensation Insurance – A Basic Understanding
- Working Capital
- Working Capital Cycle
- Working Capital Management – Fundamentals
- Working Capital Management – Production and Sales Flow
- Working Capital Turnover
- Working Trial Balance
