Limited Liability Companies For Dummies, 3rd� Edition� offers a clear, concise guide that explains the pros and cons of LLCs, and shares insider tips on everything from choosing your members and your company name to creating and filing your Articles of Organization and managing day-to-day operations. You'll find the most current, real-world advice on customizing an LLC for your specific business needs, creating a great operating agreement, keeping accurate records, and new information on federal regulations and fees that are applicable to LLCs, as well as a link to online tools, forms, and documents
Most of the previous drawbacks to forming an LLC have all but disappeared with the IRS having loosened restrictions and individual states following suit. Because LLCs are now more flexible, they remain an attractive option for those launching a new business or reorganizing an existing business. This book shows how to form and tap into the power of an LLC:
Keep up on the latest information on federal taxes, regulations, and fees Discover the advances in technology, including online tools that streamline the processes Get up-to-the minute documents and forms on new filing requirements Learn how to set-up a real estate LLC or an LLC among family members This hands-on guide addresses everything you need to know about LLCs, and will help you organize, launch, and run your business as a limited liability company just like the experts do!
P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you�re probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Limited Liability Companies For Dummies (9781118852989). The book you see here shouldn�t be considered a new or updated product. But if you�re in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We�re always writing about new topics!
This did the basics - answered questions, albeit a bit redundently (I did read it cover to cover and it was described as being appropriate for pick and choose reading by subject, thus explaining the re-itition). My main gripe is that much of the valuable information advertised at Amazon and in the book blurbs is supposedly at a website Rundoc.com. Well this web site hasn’t exosted since 2016. Wiley, the publisher, didn’t respond to my questions, and the author’s other business website did, but only to say it was Wiley’s issue. Yet at the back of the book the author claims credit for creating the rundoc website. Soooooo - she has to shoulder some of the responsibility, but I am sure it is nicely sheltered in an LLC. The other issue I had was the author’s constant snark at California. CA is not the only high tax state - not by any means, and she didn’t call out NY or NJ or other staes once. Not sure what her issue with CA is, but she does seem to have film company clients so maybe that is it. Anyway - a useful introduction, but now I have a lot more deeper work to do. Not one stop shopping as I hoped the book would be.
This is the right combination of information-packed, yet written in an accessible and amusing-enough style. I wish my MBA textbooks had been more like this. I will certainly need to refer back to certain sections for some of the legal and tax details, but even a single pass-through was extremely informative, without being the slog that a long book about LLCs could have been. The narrator of the audiobook version did a fabulous job.
I thought the book had some good information, but honestly it only creates more research. I understand that the book is introductory in nature, but I found that much if the information wasn’t needed and a lot of what I did need wasn’t included.
3.5 I needed to brush up on LLCs, and this first edition was handy. Overall it is a fairly good introduction and touches upon most major topics, though will likely raise more questions than knowledge level for anybody with prior exposure to business operations. Given the broad landscape and myriad situations and "for Dummies" style, I did not expect a thorough treatment, but a few case studies beyond a paragraph or two would have been helpful. As a primer, I'd happily round up to 4 stars, assuming the subsequent edition was revised even just enough to address a couple of noticed omissions and clarify some potentially erroneous information.
Too used-car-salesman for my liking. The "go register your trademark" exhortation was hard enough to swallow, but when the discussion of Nevada and Wyoming trod dangerously close to "incorporate here to give a finger to Uncle Sam" (tone, not actual wording) I dropped the book. I was reading it hoping for some extra information to round out what I get from Nolo's books, but it looks like the For Dummies franchise isn't what it used to be.
Generally don't care for the "for dummies" books but this one I liked. It explained everything in a non-dry manner and in just the right amount of depth for someone totally new to the concept of LLCs.
I really was a person not familiar when it comes to running a business. Learn, learning and keep learning when it comes to business. If you don't get it at first read it again. Learn from other peoples mistakes. Take notes. This is one of my favorite books when it comes to business.
A really good overview of the process involved behind starting up a LLC. Also the author does a decent job of laying out the case for choosing LLC vs other business types.