Stock Market Today

You don’t get an account, you get listed. It’s a mean of raising funds. You are selling part of your company (thus a share of the profit). Shareholders in turns pay you money to buy that initial share. (Shareholders can then sell to another person, and you will not see that money. Thus, you may list it at $20. Two months later, the stock goes to $200. You get the initial $20.)

You asked what to expect… since now a bunch of people has a claim to your company’s profitablity. You now need to tell a bunch of people how your company is doing. (i.e. an entire set of regulations collectively called Sarbane-Oxley will suddenly apply to your company.) You will have a lot more paperwork, and you will need to significantly beef up your account/corporate finance/auditing departments.

Now, I say you can’t is that by you asking this question, I assume you don’t meet the listing requirement. If you did, you would have accountants who told you the answer… At the very minium, you need to have 3 years of positive earnings to the tune of 10 mil