After completing Home Business: Managing Your Business, the user should be able to:

	Keep a home business's books
	Pay the right taxes on a home business
	Use tax write-offs and deductions
	Get personal breaks from work
	Create a professional image

Keeping Books with Accounting

	Setting up an accounting system
	Keeping books and receipts
	Watching cash flow
	Staying on top of inventory needs
	Creating better banking strategies

Paying Taxes

	Taxes on sole owner businesses
	Taxes on partnerships
	Taxes on corporations

Tax Write-Offs

	Getting the most mileage from business deductions
	Handling losses from business operations

Tax Deductions

	Sheltering income with home office deductions
	Taking write-offs for a day care business
	Cutting the cost of home office construction
	Making money by making a home safer for the elderly and people with disabilities

Taking Time Away from Work

	Finding the time for work and pleasure
	Keeping your business separate from the family
	Taking time off

Presenting a Professional Image

	Getting organized
	Developing your professional image
	Creating the illusion of a large organization

Keeping Touch with the Outside World

	Replacing face-to-face socializing when working alone at home
	Getting out of the office for business and pleasure
	Networking for social and business connections
	Joining trade associations for connections to products and services

A typical course has the following features:

	Exercises that allow users to explore how a course topic applies to their own real-world situations
	A file containing the text of the exercises
	Simulations that allow users to practice course skills, even if they don't have access to the real application
	A course index
	A glossary
	A Skill Assessment