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Certification Rule 302 With the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (the “Act”) came many rules and revisions to rules that w... Full Details »	$9.95
Note Purchase Agreement If you are selling your company or contemplating buying all or a piece of another, the 11-page ample... Full Details »	$9.95
Primer on Pricings of IPO’s The intended result of this 13 page white paper is to briefly outline the IPO process and to enhance... Full Details »	$19.95
Interest on Stock Certificates This brief but significant white paper of three pages covers a relatively new aspect of the money ma... Full Details »	$9.95
Good Reasons to Sell a Great Company Given the ever changing dynamics in a global economy, and daunting industry trends, some owners are ... Full Details »	$39.95
Bridge Over Troubled Water: The in’s and out’s of Bridge Loans Bridge financing often is perceived to be a viaduct to victory valley when in fact it’s a direct rou... Full Details »	$19.95
Sarbanes-Oxley: A Brush Stroke With the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the landscape for public companies as well as ac... Full Details »	$9.95
Business Plan Development Guide Are you playing the funding game with prospective investors? Then you know the routine: Presentatio... Full Details »	$59.95
Fairness Opinion or Valuation: Does one size fit all During the last decade, there was an overall increase in the number of transactions including merger... Full Details »	$9.95
How Can My Company Trade on the US Markets? The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) imposes a significantly reduced regulator... Full Details »	$29.95
Naked Short Selling While NASD Rule 3350, “The Short Rule”, protects stock issues by prohibiting short sales on a down b... Full Details »	$19.95
State Blue Sky Issues The Standard & Poor's Market Access Program ensures that key information about a company is always a... Full Details »	$19.95
American Depository Receipts An American Depository Receipt, or “ADR,” is a form of equity ownership of a non-U.S. company. It i... Full Details »	$9.95
SB2 Filing Package If you’re listening to advice from someone who hasn’t taken 10 companies public already, you’re in a... Full Details »	$197.00
The Nevada IPO Alternative for Small Business Entities You don’t have to be rich to start your own company. In fact, about 17% of all businesses now worth ... Full Details »	$129.99
Financial Techniques to Raise Capital Companies that successfully raise capital most likely do so after completing a written business plan... Full Details »	$49.95
Reverse Mergers: Pitfalls and Alternatives Many middle-market businesses ($1 million-$25 million) have used reverse mergers as a perceived low-... Full Details »	$69.95
Separation & Release As a business owner or Human Resources Manager, you have decided to make some personnel changes. How... Full Details »	$9.95
Sourcing Deals in Today’s Market: Financial Buyers As a company looking for funding, you probably have a list of questions a mile long. This white pap... Full Details »	$119.95
Metrics: Non-numerical Critical Success Factors in Pre-public Companies When taking a private company to the public, it’s often not what management says about the numbers b... Full Details »	$29.95
Cross Border IPOs When a foreign company decides to expand its horizons and wants to go public in the United States, t... Full Details »	$49.95
SOX 301 & OTC Stocks: A Look at SOX for Small Businesses Section 301 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 addresses the board of directors’ audit committee spec... Full Details »	$49.95
Due Diligence List Considering a transaction: joint venture, merger, acquisition, investment in a subsidiary, etc.? Bef... Full Details »	$29.95
Lock Up Agreement If you are involved in any capital structure evaluation or recapitalization effort or contemplating... Full Details »	$9.95
The Affordable IPO Alternative "Going Public doesn't have to mean Going Broke." Smaller businesses w... Full Details »	$129.99
A Chancery Court for Nevada: Definition, Costs, and Benefits The paper defines how a chancery court differs from a common law court and from business courts, and... Full Details »	$49.95
The 'Hows' and 'Whys' of Structuring M&A Transactions After countless hours of mulling through financial statements and bargaining for every penny your bu... Full Details »	$39.95
Job Ain’t Over Til The Paperwork is Done Every company leaves a paper trail. It’s either a happy trail leading to a land filled with milk an... Full Details »	$29.95
How to Research Your Management or Director’s Background With the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act publicly traded companies have faced much more scrutiny. ... Full Details »	$9.95
Unorthodox Startup Capital: Retiring on Your Business Starting a business is tough, especially if you have a 'day job'. You need to balance the efforts of... Full Details »	$89.95
Convertible Promissory Note If your firm is involved in a situation requiring a Note Purchase Agreement, do you know the standar... Full Details »	$9.95
Management Discussion and Analysis The Management Discussion and Analysis (“MD&A”) section of quarterly and annual financial statements... Full Details »	$9.95
The Importance of Compliance for SBIs The impact of non-compliance is profound. While many small issuers can operate with inconsistent co... Full Details »	$29.95
An Overview of State Blue Sky Laws Sole proprietorships have the greatest exposure for the business owner, who is responsible for suppl... Full Details »	$69.95
Valuing a Public to Private Deal The move from public to private is not a fire sale. Nor is it a return to the hostile leveraged buy-... Full Details »	$5.95
Negotiating and Closing Negotiation and closing are critical business skills, and central to the SB-2 process - yet, many o... Full Details »	$19.95
Preparing to Operate in “Stealth” Mode To operate with stealth means maintaining a low profile – giving no signal as to what your company i... Full Details »	$29.95
Board of Directors Analysis The NASD will implement new Rules in the next year which will require outside board membership in or... Full Details »	$9.95
Financing with Venture Capital: Seller Beware Why Venture Cap can be a Venture Trap In some ways it’s even easier to launch a business... Full Details »	$99.95
Requiring Small Businesses to Expense Stock Options When large corporate scandals such as Enron and WorldCom were publicized in 2001, a great deal of ne... Full Details »	$29.95
Investor and Shareholder Protection It is a myth that shareholders can do little to mitigate their risk other than diversifying their po... Full Details »	$9.95
D&O Insurance The escalation in the number of lawsuits already has driven premiums on D&O insurance up, and the ne... Full Details »	$5.95
Reverse Split Many companies trading on the OTCBB or Pink Sheets have used reverse stock splits. This financial st... Full Details »	$89.95
OTCBB: A Great 20f Destination As good a fit as the OTCBB is for development stage companies, many issuers wonder why the technique... Full Details »	$39.95
SEC Announcements Boon to Small Biz The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made two major announcements in December 2007 that will... Full Details »	$29.95
Convertible Securities - Death Spiral? “Death spiral convertibles” have increasingly become a more popular form of financing for cash-stra... Full Details »	$89.95
Unorthodox Startup Capital: Retiring on Your Business Starting a business is tough, especially if you have a 'day job'. You need to balance the efforts of... Full Details »	$89.95
Hart Scott Changes Impact FPIs The Federal Trade Commission has recently changed the exemption rules for foreign issuers. The rule... Full Details »	$9.95
Overview of the M&A Process Bank of America has done it. Donald Trump has too. So, too, have thousands of other companies. In fa... Full Details »	$5.95
Independent Director This paper provides information on topics which are of interest and importance to non-executive dire... Full Details »	$9.95
Avoiding Business Plan Mistakes Dear Entrepreneur, Are you playing the funding game with prospective investors? Then you know th... Full Details »	$39.95
Business Combination Accounting This is a 21 p age PowerPoint overview of accounting acquisition nuances including: The acquisi... Full Details »	$9.95
Acquisition Financing Selecting the sources of debt and equity financing for a potential acquisition is a critical step. T... Full Details »	$15.95
Equity Buy-Backs Buy-back is a term which may not be clear to small company management or shareholders of significan... Full Details »	$9.95
Advisory Team You've devoted countless hours, untold amounts of energy, and a great deal of money to building and ... Full Details »	$9.95
Capitalization Process and Model The purpose of this 6-page memorandum is to help officers, directors, and other managers interested ... Full Details »	$19.95
Regulation S Reg. S is a complex set of regulations and should only be used when advised by counsel with signific... Full Details »	$9.95
The Nevada Advantage Building a business from scratch is a tough job. As the pundits have quipped in the past, you'll wor... Full Details »	$109.95
SOX 404 and the Small Company: Planning for Compliance Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 deals with the development and testing of internal con... Full Details »	$49.95
The Corporate Compliance Package Now more than ever, public companies are scrambling to makes sense of the issues that confront them ... Full Details »	$49.95
Independent Director This paper provides information on topics which are of interest and importance to non-executive dire... Full Details »	$9.95
Auditor and Director Independence per the Sarbanes-Oxley Act As a result of increasing accounting and auditing fraud, the SEC has stated that the current supervi... Full Details »	$9.95
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Code of Ethics and Audit Committee Requirements Within the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (the “Act”) of 2002, Sections 406 and 407 lay out new requirements reg... Full Details »	$9.95
How can the OTCBB be used as a Stepping Stone to the AMEX and NASDAQ? There are two trading systems that are separate from the National Market: the Over the Counter Bulle... Full Details »	$59.95
Trading OTCBB: Understanding the Landscape In connection with the SEC's approval of NASD Rule 6540 allowing ECNs/ATSs to display their best bid... Full Details »	$9.95
SOX 404 and the Small Company: Working with the COSO Framework Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 requires the development of an accounting control framework for the purpo... Full Details »	$39.95
How to Research Your Management or Director’s Background With the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act publicly traded companies have faced much more scrutiny. ... Full Details »	$9.95
Sarbanes-Oxley and Antifraud: Does Section 404 Help Small Companies? The deadline for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is approaching small businesses rapidly. While it looks l... Full Details »	$29.95