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No matter where you are on your entrepreneurial journey, our SCORE mentors are ready to assist. Our mentors are highly successful and seasoned business professionals and entrepreneurs with the experience and knowledge to help you achieve your business goals.
This class is a must for anyone that is thinking about starting a business or has recently launched a business and has questions that need to be answered. We encourage you to bring with you any questions you might have.
SCORE Chapel Hill Durham is excited to introduce a workshop for new entrepreneurs or anyone else in need of learning simple record keeping. This course is a hands-on lecture/lab that teaches business owners how to track their cash disbursements and receipts in a simple manner to keep track of profitability on a consistent basis.
Start-up Basics: This introductory workshop focuses on the basics of testing your business idea and identifying the key factors that influence start-up success. Start-up Basics provides you with an overview of the skills and tools you need when deciding to start a business.
In this session, you learn about: the advantages and disadvantages of owning a business, the most profitable form for your business, and the fundamentals of formation, organization, marketing, cash flow and funding sources.
Business use of your home
Simplified Home Office Deduction
Qualifying for business use of the home deduction – Exclusive Use Test
Regular Use Test
Principal place of business test
Activities that don’t disqualify your home office
Meeting place for customers test
Separate structure test
Deduction limits
Types of expenses
Expenses related to the business activity in the home
Business Use of the Home Expenses
Deductible expenses
Deduction limits – Gross Income
Example – Determining the home office deduction
What you can't do
Selling your home when you used it for business
Illegal Tax Avoidance
Bring order to the chaos of starting a small business. Learn 10 key topics every business owner needs to know and start mapping your own plan for starting a small business. Fast-paced, interactive, co-taught class with a workbook to organize key ideas.
From researching American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) listings to taking a free course from the Small Business Administration (SBA), there are several small business resources to help you prepare and conquer tax season.
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In this discussion, we'll delve into the significance of independent financial audits for private companies, the ideal stage for their implementation, the revenue thresholds that might trigger the need for an audit and related considerations.
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To help small business owners and entrepreneurs save taxes through legitimate and easy ways, we asked experienced entrepreneurs and financial advisors this question for their best strategies.
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SCORE proudly celebrates 60 years of helping America’s small businesses launch, grow and thrive. Since 1964, more than 17 million entrepreneurs have received support from SCORE, a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
Today, SCORE has a nationwide network of more than 10,000 volunteers serving all 50 U.S. states and territories, guiding entrepreneurs on their path to success.
Are you thinking about starting your own business, but not quite sure where to start? Or maybe you've already taken the leap, but feel overwhelmed? SCORE is here to help. We offer a great place to start with our "Welcome to Entrepreneurship" workshop. Join us along with others like you, to hear a high-level overview of what it takes to start and run your own business. Bring your questions and your business cards to this free program, to learn and network, held monthly in Durham and Chapel Hill.
SCORE Chapel Hill Durham offers free and low-cost business workshops to help small business owners and entrepreneurs gain the skills they need to help their businesses thrive.
Business Confidential Now with Hanna Hasl-Kelchner. Learn to identify the business issues hiding in plain view that matter to your bottom line.
SCORE empowers all entrepreneurs to succeed.
We believe that anyone can start a small business with the right support. We also know that the path to success may vary based on where you are in your business journey.
SCORE is here to help with curated resources for all entrepreneurs.
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