Book excerpt: THE "FAMILY BIBLE" FOR FAMILY BUSINESSES, LARGE AND SMALL For many family business owners the most daunting issues aren't how to serve customers or make sales----they're how to handle the often complicated legal and tax issues involved in running a successful business. From business plan to intergenerational succession, J.K. Lasser's Finance & Tax for Your Family Business offers all the relevant tax and legal aspects of starting, running, and transferring a company. It provides an invaluable understanding of organizational structures, capital-formation alternatives, and compensation obligations and choices. Also included is a resource listing of family business institutes, centers, and Web sites. Critical coverage will help you: * Build a winning management team * Discover the best strategies for passing the business on to future generations * Estimate estate tax consequences * Understand the ramifications of buy-sell agreements within a family context