It takes a lot of time to successfully market and promote a new business. Starting out a new business with expectation of earning a full time income from a part time effort is not very realistic and is likely to lead to disappointment.

If you are planning on starting a home-based business with intention of spending a great deal of time with young children or caring for a sick or elderly family member, a full-time home business (and income) may not be a realistic objective from a time availability standpoint. Try to reconcile your income expectations with amount of time that you have available to devote to starting your home business.

You can expect to experience periods of doubt in early stages of developing your business...did I pick a viable business opportunity?...am I doing right things to develop my business?...when will I start making a profit?, and so on.

A person working at a home based business may also experience occasional periods of feeling isolated...a feeling which is probably brought on by lack of interaction of a work force or office environment.

Whatever type of home based business that you choose to start, you can rest assured that there will be some bumps in road leading to your success. You should expect to experience "two steps forward and one step backward" thing and try to avoid ever-looming temptation to become overly discouraged when you take one of those backward steps. It is very easy to lose sight of obvious fact that as long as you have more steps forward than backward you will eventually get ahead!

- Peachtree: Peachtree has many products and software solutions, also offer a trial download, which allows you to test drive product.

As a CPA I have used Peachtree and can attest to it quality. http://working-at-home-ideas-and-information.com/PeachTree

- QuickBooks: QuickBooks is another popular full featured accounting and payroll program designed for small businesses - or, I should say, a small business accounting software series.QuickBooks is available many versions.

I have used QuickBooks for years, both personally and professionally. http://working-at-home-ideas-and-information.com/QuickBooks

There may be accounting software unique to your industry, which would be more appropriate for your business.

=>Tax Preparation: many accounting software series and packages also come with a solutions to your taxes.

What ever you do in regards to taxes, important thing is to keep records.

According to IRS you are supposed to have records for any deductions.

More important... keeping accurate records will make accounting and tax preparation process much easier and will save you lots of time and money.

If you decide to have your taxes prepared for you, keeping organized records will save you money.

The less organized you are, more questions tax preparer will have for you.

Also the more time spent preparing your return, generally, means that cost goes up.

Here's wishing Best of Business to you!

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This article on STARTING A BUSINESS? is not "professionally" advising you on business matters, or business agreements. If you have any concerns in regards to your business, I would advise consulting an attorney.

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