Form Your Own Limited Liability Company (book with CD-Rom)

This book is very complete and up to date. I am very satisfied with the contents. On the other hand, I have bought some very heavily promoted books here at Amazon and was vastly dissappointed.

I don't know who is pushing those books, but I doubt if they have read or applied any of the information.

Some other books that I do recommend are How To Form Your Own "S" Corporation and avoid double taxation by Robert Friedman, How To Form and Operate a Limited Liability Company by Gregary Damman, Nolo's Quick LLC by Anthony Mancuso, How To Use Limited Liability Companies by Garret Sutton and How To Launch a Business and Incorporate in Any State by J.W.Dicks.


Don't start a business without it!   May 17, 2004
22 out of 24 found this review helpful

This book was a life-saver! Unless you have thousands of dollars lying around to waste on legal fees, I strongly recommend you pick up this book. Its step-by-step, plain english instructions and form-filled CD-ROM make it super-easy to use. It gives you all of the information you'll need both to start up your LLC and to maintain it once its established. Mancuso walks you though every step from naming your LLC, to preparing an Operating Agreement, to taking care of the endless legal and tax paperwork.
And I'm not just talking hypothetically, I used this book to form my own LLC and personally know three other business owners who have used it either when starting up or while switching from a partnership to and LLC. My company is going strong and thanks to this book I get both the flexibility of a partnership and the protection of a corporation. This is a great buy!


A Lot of Information about this new Business Model   March 2, 2006
John Matlock (Winnemucca, NV)
21 out of 24 found this review helpful

A limited liability company is a relatively recent addition to the traditional forms of companies. It has some fo the advantages of a corporation, and the tax advantages of a partnership, sole proprietorship or corporation depending on the desires of the owners. It is not suitable for all organizations, but if you are considering one, here is the place to start.

If you go to an attorney to get him to set up an limited liability corporation, he will ask you a bunch of questions, write down the answers and get his secretary or paralegal to type these answers into their standard LLC form on their word processor. She will then press the print button and you get billed for a thousand dollars or so.

Anthony Mancuso is a corporations attorney licensed to practice law in California. He decided to take his standard corporate form and put it out in the form of a book. In the book he will ask you a bunch of questions, taking the time to point out the alternatives (that a lawyer probably doesn't do unless asked. You then take his standard corporation form (supplied on a CD) and fill in the answers. Files these with the appropriate offices and you have a corporation for only the filing fees the state charges.

Well, maybe it's not quite that easy. The LLC is a new form of business. I'd suggest that you read and consider the forms contained here, but then I'd have an attorney in your state review them, just to be sure.