Small Time Operator: How to Start Your Own Small Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes and Stay Out of Trouble! (22nd ed) [Paperback]

Bernard B. Kamoroff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1997 | Series: 22nd ed

Everything an aspiring entrepreneur needs to know about starting and maintaining a small business--from turning a raw proposal into a workable business plan to keeping accurate records and avoiding audits--is presented in the highly readable style that has made this the bestselling small-business book of all time. Illustrations, charts & tables.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The new, fully updated edition of a classic presents all the nuts and bolts of building a business; from obtaining initial permits and licenses to locating financing, finding the right business location, developing a bookkeeping system, and hiring employees. This newly updated 'bible' of the industry continues to reflect the latest thinking in tax and business management. -- Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Bernard B. Kamoroff is a C.P.A. with 30 years of experience specializing in small business. A University of California lecturer, he is the author of five books on business and taxes. He lives in Willits, California.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Bell Springs Pub; 23rd edition (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0917510143
• ISBN-13: 978-0917510144
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,011,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay for the true novice to business, March 4, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Small Time Operator (Paperback)

This book is okay if you have no prior business knowledge. It will bring you up to speed before you read the better books that offer the heavy artillery.

For first timers, okay. Experienced, pass.

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kudos for a plain spoken expert., March 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Small Time Operator: How to Start Your Own Small Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes and Stay Out of Trouble! (22nd ed) (Paperback)

I began researching business start-up about two years ago, and I've been in business now for about a year. As a career bureacrat, I had no prior knowledge whatever about the nuts and bolts of business. Being something less than an accounting whiz, I found most of the scores of "idiots guides" and "made simple" books I consulted on business startup incomprehensible, poorly written, "what to" rather than "how to," or some combination thereof. Mr Kamoroff's book is different. He begins at the beginning, and builds on fundamental ideas in a way an absolute novice such a myself can comprehend. Yet, he packs a phenomenal amount of information into a short space, and his expertise is obvious. His book provides clear instructions for creating and maintaining the bookkeeping side of a business. I built the single-entry bookkeeping system for my "one person" business using Small Time Operator, and I constantly refer to the book when I have tax questions. This is a book that cannot be recomended too highly to aspiring entrepreneurs.

69 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A New Book with a Track Record, October 2, 2000

By 

Dan Poynter "Author-Publisher-Speaker" (Santa Barbara, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Small Time Operator (Paperback)

Bernard (Bear) Kamoroff proves an author/publisher can make a living on one book. Through 24 revised editions and 54 printings in 22 years, this very successful guide has to be the best-selling accounting book of all time. Continually updated, it just keeps on getting better and better.

Kamoroff takes you through Getting Started (business location, financing, legal structure, licenses & permits, import & export, insurance, business name and business plan), Bookkeeping (bank accounts, recording income, sales & expenditures and financial management), Business Growth (hiring help, incorporation), Taxes (expenses, self-employment tax, retirement deductions, the IRS, returns, other taxes), and in the Appendix (how to find a good accountant, home-based businesses, buying & selling a business, freelancers and more).

This book has a great title and it was the title that made people pick it up to discover the great content.

I have been a publisher for 31 years and I wish this book had been written 32 years ago. Fortunately, it has been with me for 22. [e-mail].