Upcoming Seminars

The Lord Fairfax Small Business Development Center is holding the following seminars. The location of each seminar is listed below.

March

FINANCIALS FOR BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Instructor: Bill Sirbaugh
Location: Seminars will be held at the SBDC offices at Middletown Courts -- 7718 Main Street - Middletown VA.
Date: March 25, 2010

Time: 6 - 9 PM Fee: $40*
Contact: Carolyn Majors
Phone: 540-868-7093

NOTE: This seminar was originally scheduled for March 11th.

This seminar will assist you in completing the financial data required on your business plan.

Mr. Sirbaugh will discuss where to find the information necessary to complete the plan.

It is not necessary to attend the "Writing A Business Proposal" seminar to attend this seminar.

NOTE: A discount of $10 for this seminar is available if paid five days prior to session date.

Online registration can be made at http://www.virginiasbdc.org/workshop.aspx

You will need to call the office to give us your credit card information or send us a check.

April

INSURANCE ISSUES FOR SMALL BUSINESS

Instructor: David Newlin/Greg Hulver
Location: Seminars will be held at the SBDC offices at Middletown Courts -- 7718 Main Street - Middletown VA.
Date: April 01, 2010

Time: 6 - 8:30 PM Fee: $40*
Contact: Carolyn Majors
Phone: 540-868-7093

Our facilitator will discuss insurance needs for different types of businesses. How much insurance do you need? What kind of insurance do you need? If you are carrying only the minimum amount of liability insurance on a vehicle that is required in your state -- it leaves you vulnerable. On the other hand paying $500 a year for theft insurance when your property is only worth $1,000, will bleed cash from your business and get you very little protection in return. Know your lender's limits; if you don't have enough to cover your loan on a building, the lender might insure it himself and charge you a greater amount than if you insured it. Learn all the ins-and-outs of insurance and their coverages.

Don't wait until you have a loss to decide what type of insurance coverage you should have had. Protection of company assets and coverage for key personnel will also be discussed at this seminar. Question and answer period.

Get your insurance questions answered at this seminar.

NOTE: A discount of $10 for this seminar is available if paid five days prior to session date.

Online registration can be made at http://www.virginiasbdc.org/workshop.aspx

You will need to call the office to give us your credit card information or send us a check.

LEGAL ISSUES FOR SMALL BUSINESS

Instructor: Chris Brown
Location: Class will be held at the LFSBDC office located at 7718 Main Street, Middletown, VA 22645
Date: April 08, 2010

Time: 6-8:30 PM Fee: $40*
Contact: Carolyn Majors
Phone: (540) 868-7093

As you build your company, legal considerations about structuring, organizing, and conducting your business could have far reaching implications. Choices about business entity, management structure, licensing requirements, leases, buy-sell provisions, insurance, common contract provisions and succession planning are just some of the decisions you will have to make. This seminar will offer an overview of business law topics critical to your success.

Chris Brown a Shenandoah County attorney will guide us through the legal considerations of starting and maintaining a small business.

NOTE: A discount of $10 for this seminar is available if paid five days prior to session date.

Online registration can be made at http://www.virginiasbdc.org/workshop.aspx

You will need to call the office to give us your credit card information or send us a check.

WORKING WITH FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Instructor: Bill Sirbaugh
Location: This seminar will be held at the SBDC offices at Middletown Courts -- 7718 Main Street, Middletown VA.
Date: April 22, 2010

Time: 6 - 9 pm Fee: $40*
Contact: Carolyn Majors
Phone: 540-868-7093

What kind of useful information can a non-accountant gain from looking at financial statements?

Are you looking to purchase an existing business? You'll need to look over the financial statements to see if the business is viable.

This seminar will assume you already have a balance sheet and income statement, but that you want to learn how you can use them to better manage the business.

NOTE: A discount of $10 for this seminar is available if paid five days prior to session date.

Online registration can be made at http://www.virginiasbdc.org/workshop.aspx

You will need to call the office to give us your credit card information or send us a check.

May

Marketing Your Business

Instructor: Dale Maza, Marketing Counselor
Location: The SBDC office -- 7718 Main St - Middletown VA 22645
Date: May 05, 2010
and Second Date 4/14/10 at Vint Hill
Time: 1 - 3:30 pm Fee: $40
Contact: Carolyn Majors
Phone: 540-868-7093

Learn what marketing can do to boost your small business.

Learn the tools to build the strategy, setting the marketing strategy and plan the marketing strategy.

TAXES AND LICENSES FOR SMALL BUSINESS

Instructor: Brian Davet, CPA
Location: This seminar will be held at the SBDC offices at Middletown Courts -- 7718 Main Street, Middletown VA.
Date: May 06, 2010

Time: 6 - 8:30 pm Fee: $40*
Contact: Carolyn Majors
Phone: 540-868-7093

Each level of government reserves the right to regulate and/or tax your small business. So, depending on your geography and the product or service you offer, you may have to work with local, state, and federal authorities for both proper licensure and the payment of appropriate taxes and fees.

This seminar will help you navigate this otherwise confusing maze of regulations and give you the contacts and resources that can answer your specific questions.

This seminar is lead by Brian Davet, CPA, of Rutherford and Johnson, P. C. of Winchester.

NOTE: A discount of $10 for this seminar is available if paid five days prior to session date.

Online registration can be made at http://www.virginiasbdc.org/workshop.aspx

You will need to call the office to give us your credit card information or send us a check.

QUICKBOOKS I and II

Instructor: Angela Rudolph
Location: This workshop will be held at the Middletown Campus of Lord Fairfax Community College, on US Rt 11 north of Middletown. This is exit 302 off I-81. Room 317
Date: May 11, 2010
and Day 2 will be held on May 13th
Time: 9 am -- 4 pm Fee: $225 *
Contact: Carolyn Majors
Phone: 540-868-7093

This two-day course is designed to accomplish the following:

Introduction and Overview of QuickBooks -- covering set-up issues and an overview of using lists in QuickBooks. This would include a review of and encompass the chart of accounts, the use of items, customer and vendor lists, and the use of account classes.
Managing Revenues -- including the proper set-up of customers and jobs, processing sales, deposits, credit memos, bad debts, and properly making deposits.
Managing Expenses -- including proper vendor set-up, entering expenses, and writing checks.
Bank reconciliation procedures.
The set-up and proper use of sales tax issues.
Payroll Processing -- including set-up issues and processing options, and the filing of quarterly and annual payroll forms with QuickBooks.
Various other functions in QuickBooks including inventory, job costs and the management of data including report options and obtaining management information.

(This course is applicable to QuickBooks Basic, Pro, Premier,

and industry specific editions.)

You should be knowledgeable in keyboarding on a computer to get
the fullest benefit from this session.

Brown-bag lunches welcome.

Fee includes the textbook for this session.

NOTE: A discount of $35 for this seminar is available if paid five days prior to session date.

SETTING UP YOUR BUSINESS BOOKS

Instructor: Angela Rudolph, CPA
Location: This seminar will be held at the SBDC offices at Middletown Courts -- 7718 Main Street, Middletown VA.
Date: May 20, 2010

Time: 6 pm - 8:30 pm Fee: $40*
Contact: Carolyn Majors
Phone: 540-868-7093

This class was originally scheduled for February 11, 2010

Do you have what at it takes to manage the bookkeeping for your business? Even if someone else 'keeps the books', you should know what is recorded in your bookkeeping system, because you are the responsible business owner/manager.

There are two reasons to keep good financial records. First, you need to be able to tell the govenment how much money you made. Second, you need to know how the business is doing both against your profitability goals and against your cash flow needs. This seminar will teach you the fundamentals and recommend tools and resource to make the job easier.

Angela Rudolph, CPA with Rutherford and Johnson, PC, will lead you through setting up the books for a business. We will be using the 'cash basis' for bookkeeping systems.

NOTE: A discount of $10 for this seminar is available if paid five business days prior to session date.

Online registration can be made at http://www.virginiasbdc.org. Click on events. Our zip code is 22645.

You will need to call the office to give us your credit card information or send us a check.

June

PAYROLLTAX FORMS WORKSHOP

Instructor: Angela Rudolph
Location: This workshop will be held at Lord Fairfax SBDC offices at 7718 Main St, Middletown VA
Date: June 15, 2010

Time: 1 - 3:30 PM Fee: $40
Contact: Carolyn Majors
Phone: 540-868-7093

W-2, ^W-4,VA-2, IRS, deposit payroll taxes, your checking account balance, VA4 , VA5, 940, 941, 1099, 1098, forms.......forms........forms

ARE YOU TEARING YOUR HAIR OUT BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?

Payroll taxes can be intimidating unless you know the rules. Let us assist you in learning how to fill out those forms! Please bring a handheld calculator to this session.

Angela Rudolph, CPA, with the firm of Rutherford and Johnson,will faciliate this seminar.

This workshop was originally scheduled for March 4th.