Posts by Bryan Dewhurst
Meet our uncommon clients for November – Jared and Carisah Lee
Jared and Carisah Lee have two daughters Jovie (6) and Madden (3), and moved to Iowa two years ago because Jared accepted a position as a Worship Leader at Keystone Church. Carisah had been working in Digital Marketing and Social Media Management from home for the past six years for several clients and also started…
Read MoreBusiness Organization – Corporate Registered Accounts
Let’s say you start a business with a partner, just like we did around 8 years ago. When you are organized as an LLC, C Corp or S Corp, you can’t have the partners go around paying for stuff out of their own funds. The waters get muddy real quick. Co-mingling funds can open you…
Read MoreBusiness Organization – Business Bookkeeping and Annual Tax Filing
What does it take to run a business successfully? That is the question we’re answering in this series of articles on business organization—all the legal and financial nitty-gritty that needs doing beyond the exciting idea you had when you decided to start a business. One of those big nitty-gritty details is managing the financial accounts…
Read MoreBusiness Organization – It’s Not Just a Domain Name
Since we work with so many business owners who are building their own uncommon life, and since we talk so much about the power of business ownership, we wanted to write a series of articles about business organization—all the seemingly minute legal and financial details that need to be tended to so business can run…
Read MoreBusiness Organization – Corporate Veil
This article is part of a larger series of articles about how to set up and organize a business both properly and legally. Today, our article is all about the “corporate veil”. Maybe you’ve heard the term before and wondered what that was referring to. The corporate veil is a legal concept that concerns the…
Read MoreOctober’s Uncommon Clients – Dan & Meredith Brown
Dan and Meredith Brown live outside of Houston, TX and have been married for eight years. Together, they have five boys ranging from 2 to 23. They’re an on the go family with three boys still at home, a busy church community, and they try to sneak in an occasional date night! Meredith and Dan…
Read MoreBusiness Organization – The Annual Meeting
Part of being a business owner means following certain business formalities. One such formality is the annual meeting. What’s the big deal with these and why should you have an annual meeting? If you are structured as a corporation, it is a legal requirement to hold an annual meeting. For LLCs, it is not a…
Read MoreBusiness Organization – Corporate Seal
As we talk with clients about the power of business ownership, we encounter many questions about what it takes to set up a business, thus this series of articles. We’re covering just about everything, from the corporate structure to annual/biennial reporting, to upcoming articles on tax filing and bookkeeping—and everything in between. We want to provide…
Read MoreBusiness Organization – Annual or Biennial Report
Business drives the global economy and owning a business can have a huge impact on your own personal economy. We’re writing a series of articles about the nuts and bolts, best practices, and legal necessities around organizing your business. This week, it’s all about the annual/biennial report. For the sake of clarity, we’re writing about…
Read MoreBusiness Organization – Operating Agreement for Limited Liability Companies
Since business ownership is such a key point of conversation with so many of our clients, we’ve been writing a series of articles about business organization—all the stuff that doesn’t seem very exciting but is essential to legally own a business and creating a “corporate veil” between your assets and you. So, you’ve researched and…
Read MoreBusiness Organization – Registering the Entity Name
We often talk about the power of business ownership; with clients, on our Uncommon Life podcast, and pretty much to anyone who will listen to us! Organizing a business is nit-picky work, but it has to be done and done right. We are writing a series of articles about business organization because we know it’s…
Read MoreSeptember’s Uncommon clients – Misty and Jason Conn
Misty and Jason met in college and both attended Western Illinois University. Misty works for a non-profit supporting people with intellectual disabilities and mental illness to obtain employment. and Jason works for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources in Floodplain Management. They have two kids and love to travel as a family. When we started…
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