How to Form Your Own California Corporation [Paperback]

Anthony Mancuso (Author)

Book Description

Series: How to Form Your Own California Corporation | Publication Date: September 2002

Take advantage of the benefits incorporation offers your business:
*limited liability
*tax advantages
*S Corporation tax status
*financial advantages

Corporations expert Attorney Anthony Mancuso shows you how to incorporate your business yourself, without the expense of hiring a lawyer. He's shown more than 100,000 California businesses how to incorporate, providing all the step-by-step instructions, comprehensive information and necessary forms.

How to Form Your Own California Corporation includes:
*step-by-step instructions for forming your own California Corporation
*complete information on electing S corporation tax status
*10 stock certificates
*all incorporation forms: including articles, bylaws, minutes, stock disclosure agreements and ongoing minute forms

The 10th edition is completely updated and revised to provide the latest legal information and forms.

Editorial Reviews

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An excellent book. -- San Francisco Examiner

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Limit your personal liability in tough times! --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Nolo; 10th Bk&Cr edition (September 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873378261
• ISBN-13: 978-0873378260
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,359,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How to Form Your Own California Corporation (9th Ed), March 28, 2000

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Thom Tu-Duc (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Form Your Own California Corporation with CDROM (Paperback)

Good examples. Fairly comprehensive. Good discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of forming a California corporation. The Corporate Tax section has some good pointers. Good writing style! It flows. But the diskette has only a fraction of the business and corporation related forms compared to "Small Busines Kit for Dummies". Overall, I recommend this book for a new commer. Well worth the money.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent guidebook to corporation issues and how-to, August 9, 2006

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David Martens "dm" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How To Form Your Own California Corporation (Paperback)

I purchased this book as a research tool before incorporating my business as a California C corp without any outside assistance last year. This was all I needed and used.

I read the book cover-to-cover, which did not take more than about 6 hours, and I felt very comfortable with the entire process. Like most Nolo books, this has a very readable style, with plenty of important information organized in a sensible manner. Even though the topic may not be entertainment reading, Mancuso makes the process very reasonable and I can't imagine another book doing it meaningfully better than this.

This book hits its target audience very well - someone who wants to know about the practical and procedural issues related to incorporation. As part of the responsibility of operating a business, any incorporator needs to know most of what is covered in this book. Even if you get someone to do the filing, any incorporator needs to know this stuff. Don't worry - it's not rocket science.

For a broader understanding of business issues, I found Nolo's other titles to be similarly excellent (their guide to california business and their guide to business deductions). Both cover related but different and important areas for new business owners. Read all 3 and you'll be set for general business issues.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource, easy to understand, October 5, 2007

A Kid's Review

This review is from: How to Form Your Own California Corporation (Book with CD) (Paperback)

I bought this book because I wanted to incorporate my single-person consulting company. It took me a few hours to read this book (some sections didn't apply, but I still wanted to review them), and I felt very confident I could incorporate without a lawyer. I followed the instructions for forming a C Corp in California and used the forms provided in the CD-Rom. I delivered my forms in person to the LA regional office. Within 2 weeks, I received confirmation that my articles had been filed with the SoS of CA -- all for under $250 including the cost of the book. This compares to almost $1500 that most lawyers quoted me. I recommend this book highly but recognize that the process may be more challenging if you have many shareholders.