29. Large corporations often begin as small businesses, and both share many of the same issues. Visit the Small Business Administration at http://www.sba.gov and find information on balance sheets, income statements, and other topics discussed in this chapter. The SBA page includes links to many other useful sites, such as the Small Business Resource Guide, state business tax and license sites, and more. The Internal Revenue Service includes information related to business tax issues and offers tax tips, information on how to avoid costly problems, important due dates, financial guidance and resources, laws and regulations, and statistical data about small businesses. Visit the IRS site at http://www.irs.gov/smallbiz/allbusinesses/

index.htm.

Finally, visit the Census Bureau’s site at http://www.census.gov/epcd/

www/smallbus.html for statistics on businesses large and small.

Find an interesting issue on each site and summarize them all in a one-page paper.