Be Your Own Boss: The Insider's Guide to Buying a Small Business or Franchise in Canada

Gray,. Douglas

Friend,Norman

McGraw-Hill Ryerson/Trade

We all know we need a will, one that is current and reflects our wishes and changing life events. So why do two-thirds of Canadians still die without a will - without a plan for passing on their assets the way they want? Why do Canadians still risk losing everything to creditors or the government, or certain relatives being awarded assets by provincial government formulas, none of which were the deceased's intention? Approximately one out of four Canadians die suddenly, so advance will and estate planning is critical. In this third edition of the bestselling The Canadian Guide to Will and Estate Planning, Canada's foremost author team of experts in estate planning provide you with insights and options, practical suggestions, and authoritative guidance. You can then discuss your customized and evolving needs and wishes with your professional advisors in an informed fashion, to ensure your assets are protected and your family and beneficiary needs are met with strategic tax and estate planning. This approach will save you time, money, tax, stress, and anxiety. Using practical checklists, real-life examples, and answers to frequently asked questions, Douglas Gray, LL.B, and John Budd, F.C.A., provide helpful guidance on many important topics, including guardianship, powers of attorney, trusts, probate, special options for small and family businesses, passing on the family cottage, charitable giving, tax planning, estate planning, insurance and much more. Also includes an extensive glossary and appendix, and invaluable resource information and websites. Completely updated to reflect the latest changes in relevant legislation and taxation, and with a new chapter on preserving and increasing your net worth, The Canadian Guide to Will and Estate Planning explains how to: <ul> <li>Obtain expert legal advice to prepare a will to protect your interests and assets </li> <li>Ensure that your assets will pass to the intended beneficiaries without hassle </li> <li>Use special legal and estate planning strategies to protect your business </li> <li>Avoid family feuds and spousal disputes </li> <li>Minimize or avoid income taxes and capital gains taxes through strategic tax and estate planning </li> <li>Use the latest tax laws to maximize the benefits of charitable giving</li> </ul> Don't let the government be your principal beneficiary - take the time to plan ahead!

The Canadian Guide to Will and Estate Planning: Everything You Need to Know Today to Protect Your Wealth and Your Family Tomorrow 3E

Business & Money

Budd, John

Personal Finance

McGraw–Hill Education

The Definitive Guide to Owning and Running a Successful Small Business The Complete Canadian Small Business Guide has been the go-to book for thousands of Canadian entrepreneurs ever since it was first published in 1988. Now in its fourth edition, this essential guide updates you on everything you need to know to understand, manage, and take advantage of the latest changes in technology, law, resources, and best practices of today's small businesses. Renowned experts in their field, Douglas Gray and Diana Gray provide a complete reference for every question you have and offer street-smart tips that will give your small business a competitive advantage. The Complete Canadian Small Business Guide, Fourth Edition, answers all your questions about starting, operating, and expanding your business, including: <ul> <li>Should I buy a business, a franchise, or start from scratch?</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Where do I get financing, how much do I need, and how do I pay it back?</li> </ul> <ul> <li>How do I get credit from my suppliers, and when should I extend it to my customers?</li> </ul> <ul> <li>How do I maximize the value of my lawyer, accountant, banker, and insurance broker?</li> </ul> <ul> <li>How do I use Internet marketing, SEO and social media to enhance my business?</li> </ul> <ul> <li>How do I hire the best employees--and keep them?</li> </ul> Easy-to-read and fully up-to-date, The Complete Canadian Small Business Guide provides the information you need in virtually any situation. Douglas Gray, LLB, is Canada's foremost authority on small business. Formerly a practicing lawyer, he is the author of 25 bestselling business and personal finance books. He lives in Vancouver, B.C. Visit www.smallbiz.ca Diana Gray is an experienced business owner and consultant. Her company provides centralized business services to small and medium-sized companies as well as home-based businesses.

Complete Canadian Small Business Guide

Job Hunting & Careers

McGraw=Hill

Home Inc.: The Canadian Home-Based Business Guide

So, you want to buy your first home! This is the singe most expensive purchase of your lifetime. It's a great emotional and financial commitment, but also a time of much excitement, stress, and moments of "what have we got ourselves into?" To make buying your home a rewarding and satisfying experience, you need solid research and planning-real estate expert Douglas Gray has done all that for you in the bestselling Canadian Home Buying Made Easy Douglas Gray provides a comprehensive and very readable guide to home buying. His practical "streetsmart" style will ease your fears and worries, and explain all the key areas of the home buying process. Canadian Home Buying Made Easy is an indispensable source of guidance, tips, how-tos, and encouragement for all Canadians buying their first home. Topics Include: -Purchase strategies and pitfalls -Types of residential real estate -Selecting professionals -Choosing the best mortgage -Legal, tax, and insurance aspects -Negotiating the best price -Additional tips on saving money -Using RRSPs for down payment Also includes: checklists, information sources, glossary and index.

Canadian Home Buying Made Easy

Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson, Ltd.

The Canadian Snowbird Guide: Everything You Need to Know about Living Part-Time in the U. S. A. and Mexico

Real Estate

This Glossary, designed as a practical aid to the reading of Chaucer, is intended to be serviceable with any of the widely read editions. Its primary aim is to explain the meanings of words and phrases used by Chaucer in ways which are unfamiliar in modern English. Words used as they are today are not included, but many now in common use do appear, as they had different connotations in Chaucer's time. This concise working tool will be valuable to all Middle English scholars.

A Chaucer Glossary

Davis, Norman

Ingham, Patricia

Wallace-Hadrill, Anne

Reference

Oxford University Press

The remarkable and diverse literature produced in the fascinating later medieval period - one of war, transitions, and challenges - is not as widely known as it deserves to be. In this descriptive guide the pre-eminent scholar of medieval literature Douglas Gray provides the non-specialist reader with an illuminating account of the extensive literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the early sixteenth century . Placing the works under consideration in their landscape of cultural history, Gray's survey includes a valuable a chronology, an informative introductory survey, and detailed sections on prose, poetry, Scottish writing, and drama.

Later Medieval English Literature

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Simple Forms is a study of popular or folk literature in the medieval period. Focusing both on the vast body of oral literature that lies behind the written texts which have survived from the medieval period and on the popular literature provided by literate authors for audiences of hearers or readers with varying degrees of literacy, Douglas Gray leads new readers to a productively complicated understanding of the relationship between medieval popular culture and the culture of the learned. He argues that medieval society was stratified, in what seems to us a rigid way, but that culturally it was more flexible. Literary topics, themes, and forms moved; there was much borrowing, and a constant interaction. Popular tales, motifs, and ideas passed into learned or courtly works; learned forms and attitudes made their way in into popular culture. All in all this seems to have been a fruitful symbiosis. The book's twelve chapters are principally organised genre, covering epics, ballads, popular romances, folktales, the German sage, legends, animal tales and fables, proverbs, riddles, satires, songs, and drama.

Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Popular Literature

Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric (Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World)

Originally published in 1972, Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric discusses themes and images in religious lyric poetry in Medieval English poetry. The book looks at the affect that tradition and convention had on the religious poetry of the medieval period. It examines the background of the lyrics, including the Latin tradition which was inherited by medieval vernacular and shows how religious lyric poetry presents, through a rich variety of images, the significant incidents in the scheme of Christ's redemption, such as the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Passion and the Resurrection. It also considers the lyrics which were designed to assist humanity in the task of living in a Christian life, as well as those which prepared them for death.

History & Criticism

Routledge

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