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Monthly Buzz #34
Transform Your Business
February 2005


FEATURE:
Drafting Your Budget

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORNER:

TAX BRACKET:
Reduced Recovery Period for Qualified Leasehold and Restaurant Improvements


Feature:

Drafting Your Budget

One of the most important skills of any entrepreneur is the ability to prepare budgets and accurate financial forecasts for the business. Your ability to set financial goals for sales, expenses and profits is a true measure of your ability to succeed in business.


Business Development Corner:

20 Ways to Save Money in Your Business

Just in case you've forgotten the value of a hard-earned penny, we've come up with a slew of money-saving ideas to boost your business's bottom line—from cutting your legal bills to inexpensive ways to draw in customers.

20 Factors to Consider Before Going Global

Before you set one foot on another shore, read these tips from an international business expert to improve your chances of global success.

How to Impress Your Banker

Here's a top-five list of things you should do from Rebecca Macieira-Kaufmann of Wells Fargo, America's top small-biz lender.

Fishing for Trouble

Try too hard to hook your customers, and you risk sending them reeling with anger.


The Tax Bracket:

Reduced Recovery Period for Qualified Leasehold and Restaurant Improvements

- Skandy Schmidt

New provisions created by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 and depreciation changes.


Memorable Quotes:

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
-
Margaret Thatcher (1st woman to be elected Prime Minister)

"Progress comes from intelligent use of experience."
-
Elbert Hubbard (American publisher & writer) 

"You have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
-
Henry David Thoreau (American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher)


DISCLAIMER
Information provided in this publication is intended as general information only and should be considered carefully for your own business situation before use. This firm and any associated companies accept no responsibility or any form of liability from reliance upon or use of its contents.
 

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