Managing cash flow, financing a business, tracking expenses and income, and paying taxes appropriately are vital skills for successful entrepreneurs. Management considerations include estimating startup costs, raising seed money, understanding lenders and investors, and knowing tax basics. When it comes to financial, taxation, and legal issues, business owners need expert assistance. The Entrepreneurial Resource Center can help business owners find answers.
List of CPA associations by state and a job posting board for accountants.
Information on accounting software, accounting terms, accounting systems, and basic bookkeeping.
Software programs that simplify small business accounting tasks and provide reports and tools needed to effectively use financial data.
Accounting news and industry news databases, an accounting job database, financial calculators, directory of accounting links arranged by topic, and a tax resource page. Users must register, but registration is free.
Tools, accounting calculators, databases, and helpful features.
Online directory of licensed accountants in the U.S. searchable by firm name, CPA name, or zip code. Basic information about CPA qualifications, the services CPAs provide, career resources for CPAs, and articles written by CPAs. A tax page about capital gains/assets, estate planning, retirement planning, credit/debit planning, tax calculators, IRS information, and more. A small business page about starting a business. A stock/money page about investing.
Global organization for the accounting profession.
Online learning centers for small business owners about accounting, taxes, business planning, operations, and more.
A nonprofit Bay Area organization investing in businesses in underserved communities and industries.
Forums, news, resources, and notices of meetings and events.
Section offers many resource links.
Finance advice and more than 5,000 pages of tips, checklists, case studies, and business templates for small business owners and entrepreneurs. The site also offers a monthly newsletter, news topics, and an advice column.
Ideas and resources for small business and home business.
Information about loan guarantees for projects that increase the recycling of California Redemption Value beverage containers.
Program helps small businesses obtain financing by encouraging banks and other financial institutions to make loans to small businesses that fall just outside of most banks' conventional underwriting standards.
Program provides up to $75,000 to small businesses, nonprofits, individuals, and academic institutions to conduct research that establishes the feasibility of new, innovative energy concepts.
Tax-exempt financing for qualified manufacturing and processing companies for the construction or acquisition of facilities and equipment. IDRBs allow private companies to borrow at low interest rates normally reserved for state and local government entities.
The program co-funds innovative technologies to reduce air pollution and seeks to advance such technologies toward commercial application.
Information about loans to businesses that use post consumer or secondary waste materials to manufacture new products, or that undertake projects to reduce waste resulting from product manufacturing.
The program allows a business to obtain a loan and to establish a favorable credit history with a lender.
Information on financing and entrepreneurship.
A partnership between Cisco Systems, the City of San Jose, national corporations, and non-profit organizations, providing support services such as financing programs, technical assistance, training, technology skills development, and procurement and certification programs.
Business and financial news and information.
News, publications, research, and opinion.
An annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors outlining the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices.
An extensive resource for all facets of business finance.
Resources and information for businesses about compliance with the law.
Tips for financing a small business.
Helpful resource for financial and business services. Addresses areas of law, accounting, taxation, and management.
Basic guide to financial management, plus resources for leadership and management covering approximately 650 topics and spanning 5,000 links. Topics include key practices to start, develop, operate, evaluate, and resolve problems in organizations.
A source to find and apply for federal government grants.
Columns, how-to guides, articles, ask the expert, and recommended resources.
Free articles by Philip Campbell, CPA, author of the book Never Run Out of Cash.
Free searchable venture capital database.
Answers about raising capital and sources of capital.
Extensive resources for entrepreneurship, finance and accounting, human resources, sales and marketing, products and services, and operations.
Sample business plans, marketing plans, templates, sample contracts, and business agreements that help entrepreneurs start and grow a small business. Information about startup, business planning, marketing, management, legal and accounting, and technology.
A free, web-based service created to help small and emerging businesses run more smoothly and profitably.
A member-based trade association for the U.S. venture capital industry.
A quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the U.S., containing information on emerging companies that receive financing and the venture capital firms that provide it.
Information, articles, forums, and blogs covering all facets of entrepreneurship.
Financial overviews and resources.
Information about federal security laws for small business.
Financial assistance programs for small businesses and information on organizations and sites that can assist in locating special purpose grants.
Banking and financial economic research studies.
A Bay Area based system of services including business, legal, and financial programs that provide real-time, strategic, and tactical information addressing imminent concerns of venture capitalists and portfolio companies.
A venture capital and investments resource directory.
How-to guides.
Methods for controlling taxes and more than 5,000 pages of cost-cutting tips, checklists, case studies, startup advice, and business templates for small business owners and entrepreneurs. The site also offers a monthly newsletter, up-to-date news topics, and an advice column.
Information on taxes that apply to businesses. Access detailed instructions, download forms, or file taxes electronically.
Information and tax forms.
Information and tax forms.
Information and tax forms.
Information and tax forms.
Tax and management guidance for small and medium sized businesses.
Information about taxes for all businesses, from corporations to sole proprietorship. Print or download IRS publications, and file taxes online.
Visitors can download or request the payroll tax forms.
Employment tax program information.
The Employment Development Department offers free tax seminars, either classroom-style or web-based, to help employers comply with state payroll tax laws. Access information on seminar overviews, dates, and locations.
Information on federal filing requirements.
Visitors can learn about the difference between a trademark, a service mark, and a trade name and find out how to register a trademark or service mark.
Legal information about starting a business, incorporation and legal structures, employment and human resources, intellectual property, finances and taxes, forms and contracts, and other topics.
Legal information plus resources for leadership and management covering approximately 650 topics and spanning 5,000 links. Topics include key practices to start, develop, operate, evaluate, and resolve problems in organizations.
Sample business plans, marketing plans, templates, sample contracts, and business agreements that help entrepreneurs start and grow a small business. Information about startup, business planning, marketing, management, legal and accounting, and technology.
Respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
Articles and resources.
General information, records, publications, legislation, and other information about copyrights.
Information about how to file for a patent or trademark. Search the patent and trademark databases.
Tools developed by the Small Business Development Centers, including DVDs, workbooks, books, journals, and software, that cover every facet of inventing and intellectual property.
