All About Tax Deductions

The month to filing your income tax returns is at hand. If you\’ve been organizing your tax documentation through out the year, then you should have no problems with submitting your tax return. If you had enlisted the help of a tax specialist earlier last year, then you should be able to take full advantage […]

Tax Laws to Increase Profit When Flipping Houses

Flipping houses is a serious business for a lot of people who are in the real estate industry. The market may not be doing too good these days but flipping houses can potentially give good profit. What exactly does flipping houses mean? This is a legal business wherein an individual invests on a property and […]

Tax Laws Regarding Nannies

The Nanny Tax law that is implemented in the United States is a serious provision that requires strict compliance. Just like any other occupation, employment taxes also apply for people who work for your homes, particularly nannies. Some people try to find loopholes in this provision to avoid the extra charges for tax. However, the […]

Raising Capital-Short on Cash?

Everybody has a dream. What’s your dream? There are as many ways to raise capital as there are needs for it. Perhaps you want to take advantage of a simple collateralized loan. We can help you prepare a Letter of Intent/Memorandum of Understanding and a Promissory Note. Or, perhaps you want to pursue a Private […]

What is Stock Dilution?

Stock Dilution Stock dilution occurs whenever additional shares of common stock enter the market place. This issuance causes a reduction in the earnings per share of common stock because the same amount of profit must be distributed over more shares. Additional shares can enter the market place through a public offering, employees exercising stock options, […]

Contract Differences Between Employee Stock Options and Standard Exchange Traded Call Options

Stock options can be used to both protect and create profits for typical investors. For example during the dot.com bubble of the late 1990s one of the owners of a major internet company purchased put options to protect against a stock value decline. He kept these positions in place. After the collapse he made over […]

Reverse IPO (Reverse Takeover or Reverse Merger)

A Reverse IPO is the purchase of a public company by a private company enabling the private company to immediately become a public company. This purchase allows the private company for forgo the expensive and laborious task of going public by traditional methods (IPO). Private companies primarily undertake a Reverse IPO because there are far […]

Mergers and Acquisitions

Senior Debt In corporate finance a senior debt is often issued as a senior note or loan and is a debt that must paid-off before other (junior) debt owed by the corporation in the event of a liquidation. Senior debt is most often secured by company assets or receivables and is often a credit line […]

Direct Public Offering (DPO)

Generally, a direct public offering occurs when a company sells its stock directly to the public (investors). In doing so the company does not market the stock through an investment firm or a broker/dealer. As long as the company follows the rules and regulations set up by the SEC the stock can be sold to […]

Pricing of the IPO

A company planning an IPO usually appoints a lead manager whose initial job is to determine at what price stock shares should be sold. This manager, called a book runner, usually works usually comes to the price in one of two ways: 1. The company sets the price (fixed price method), or 2. The price […]