Selecting Your Business Entity - Madisonville

When starting a new business, one of the most important decisions is choosing the entity the business will operate as. Key issues to consider in the decision include taxation, state law treatment, nature of the assets, transferability, estate planning, limiting liability, and retention of control. This course provides a general overview of the different business forms, including the issues related to their formation, management, dissolution and taxation. Also, this course will discuss the necessary things one should do and avoid doing when starting a new business.

Speaker(s): Michele M. Echols, LL.M., JD, MBA Echols & Associates, L.L.C.

Co-Sponsor(s): LSBDC at Southeastern Louisiana University SCORE Northshore St. Tammany Parish Library St. Tammany West Chamber of Commerce St. Tammany Economic Development Foundation

Fee: No Cost