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Suzanne Pinckney

It's time to start taking responsible investing seriously | Guardian Sustainable Busine... - 0 views

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investing step 5 Step 2 energy data_statistics business case

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    "On its newest assembly lines BMW produces less than 50g of waste per vehicle. Less than the weight of keys and still the company has plans to reduce it further. "
Suzanne Pinckney

LLC vs. S Corp: Which Is Right for Your Startup? - 0 views

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  • With LLCs and S Corporations, members and shareholders are able to pass company losses to their personal income reporting.
  • In some circumstances, the LLC lets you pass more loss than in an S Corporation, most notably when it comes to real estate.
  • 6. Reinvesting Profits There’s another twist regarding the LLC, S Corp and your taxes. As pass-through entities, individual owners of an S Corporation or LLC are liable for any taxes owed on profits — whether that money is retained in the company or put in their wallets. For example, if you own 50% of an S Corporation or LLC and that company makes $80,000 in profit, you need to report $40,000 in income on your personal tax return. And it doesn’t matter whether that $40,000 actually ended up in your pocket. This is known as “phantom income,” and can obviously cause a problem for some shareholders. What to know: If you plan on retaining money in the company (and would prefer not to have shareholders be personally taxed on this money), you should consider the C Corporation over both the LLC and S Corp. Of course, your specific situation may vary, so it’s always best to consult your accountant.
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  • If you incorporate as an S Corporation, you need to set up a board of directors, file annual reports and other business filings, hold shareholder’s meetings, keep records of your meeting minutes, and generally operate at a higher level of regulatory compliance than your business might need or want to deal with. With the LLC, this isn’t the case. LLCs just use an informal operating agreement. What to know: If you want less red tape and formality, the LLC can provide greater simplicity.
  • You may have heard that the traditional C Corporation is overkill for most small businesses, and results in higher overall tax payments through something known as double taxation.
  • In my last post, I discussed how the LLC (limited liability company) and S Corporation are popular structures for small businesses since they avoid this double taxation burden. With these business structures, the company is taxed like a sole proprietor or partnership, meaning the company itself doesn’t file its own taxes; all company profits are "passed through" and reported on the personal income tax return of the shareholders or, in the case of an LLC, the members.
  • Most importantly, both the LLC and S Corp will separate your personal assets from any liabilities of the company (whether from an unhappy customer, unpaid supplier, or anyone else who might pursue legal action).
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Who Wants A Powerful Inbound Marketing Plan For Free? - Business Management - Medium - 0 views

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content marketing best practices system

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    summary of entire content marketing approach
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UN Global Sustainability Report - SMEs Still Behind but Making Progress | Sustainabilit... - 0 views

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business plan data_statistics SME

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  • It finds that the major barriers for SMEs are lack of financial resources, lack of knowledge, supply chain barriers, and difficulty in implementing sustainability initiatives across functions.
  • sustainability represents a massive opportunity for American SMEs and the entire U.S. economy
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Consulting fee rates | Consultant fees - ConsultantJournal.com - Become a Consultant - 0 views

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rates business plan strategy

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    One of many ways to set rates. I like how this takes into account lots of 'hidden' expenses that we are want to forget!
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FV Launchpad | Snohomish Business Law | Free Vector Advisors - 0 views

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    possible partner for tactical execution. i'm very close first employee.
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The Green Issue - Why Isn't the Brain Green? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • rames are just one way to nudge people by using sophisticated messages, mined from decision-science research, that resonate with particular audiences or that take advantage of our cognitive biases (like informing us that an urgent operation has an 80 percent survival rate).
  • Nudges, more broadly, structure choices so that our natural cognitive shortcomings don’t make us err. Ideally, nudges direct us, gently, toward actions that are in our long-term interest, like an automated retirement savings plan that circumvents our typical inertia.
  • Whatever you design as the most cost-effective or technologically feasible solution might not be palatable to the end users or might encounter political oppositions,”
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  • the tax frame affected the outcome
  • I think there’s an attractive version of the carbon tax if somebody thought about its design,”
  • The crucial question, at least to her, is whether (and when) we want to use the tools of decision science to try and steer people toward better choices. If our preferences aren’t fixed the way we think they are — if, as Weber has argued, they’re sometimes merely constructed on the spot in response to a choice we face — why not try new methods (ordering options, choosing strategic words, creating group effects and so forth) to elicit preferences aligned with our long-term interest? That has to be better, in Weber’s opinion, than having people blunder unconsciously into an environmental catastrophe.
  • “Let’s start with the fact that climate change is anthropogenic,” Weber told me one morning in her Columbia office. “More or less, people have agreed on that. That means it’s caused by human behavior. That’s not to say that engineering solutions aren’t important. But if it’s caused by human behavior, then the solution probably also lies in changing human behavior.”
  • we have a “finite pool of worry,”
  • which means we’re unable to maintain our fear of climate change when a different problem — a plunging stock market, a personal emergency — comes along. We simply move one fear into the worry bin and one fear out. And even if we could remain persistently concerned about a warmer world? Weber described what she calls a “single-action bias.”
  • Prompted by a distressing emotional signal, we buy a more efficient furnace or insulate our attic or vote for a green candidate — a single action that effectively diminishes global warming as a motivating factor. And that leaves us where we started.
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