City, small-business advocates offer free tax, record-keeping business workshop

Press release from the City of Fort Wayne:

City, small-business advocates offer free tax, record-keeping business workshop
Topics include legal structures for companies, financial statements

The City of Fort Wayne in cooperation with Women’s Enterprise, the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce, Small Business Administration, SCORE, Community Development Corp. and the Indiana Small Business Development Center will offer a free forum on small-business taxes and recordkeeping Aug. 19.

The workshop, which will be 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Omni Room on the second floor of the City-County Building, will cover the following topics:

• Business legal structure
• Financial statements
• Recordkeeping for taxes

The topics are designed for people who are currently in business or considering starting a business. The workshop’s presenter is SCORE’s Jack Dever. No RSVP is needed.

The remaining workshops planned for 2010 are:

• Keys for Business Start-Up, Sept. 16
• Importing & Exporting, Oct. 21
• Patents, Trademarks, Copyright, Nov. 18
• Keys for Business Start-Up, Dec. 16

All workshops except October’s importing and exporting session start at 4 p.m. in the Omni Room of the City-County Building.