Archive for the ‘Financial Management’ Category
Monday, August 10th, 2009
Everyone knows that if you budget your household money, you become a more responsible spender. The more carefully you track your income and expenditures, the more careful you are in spending choices. In the end, budgeting can allow your household to give more, save more, spend more on ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Many service businesses are paid in checks, especially if it is an invoice-then-pay type of system. Even in a small business, sometimes the volume of checks received require multiple trips to the bank each week- sometimes daily. It's not as if you have plenty of spare time to ...
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
A lot of people got into freelancing and sole proprietorships last year. Since the job market tanked, many people took their skills into the open market. That's what America is all about right? Anyone can make money!
But now its tax time. Many of these same freelancers ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
Sixty years of electronics retail, all gone. Thousands of employees without jobs, empty retail boxes and tons of parking lots. That's what we are left with after what used to be the best place to learn about and purchase electronics closed its doors for good. As with ...
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Love it or hate it, most small business owners are using QuickBooks to track their company's finances. I've found that many people, while using QuickBooks to enter transactions, fail to follow through to ensure they are are getting everything entered. If you get to the end of the ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Did you hear? It may be hard to wade through all the job cuts and plant closings, but Intel is actually expanding. Yes, expanding here in the US! Thestreet.com has an interesting article on how this is an example for small businesses. If you follow my ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Knowing that people around the globe are fighting with their QuickBooks files, I decided to give some help for those who have run into a seemingly insurmountable wall: file corruption. This information is also included in a downloadable article I wrote called, "Nine Things You Never Thought You ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Today is the 15th of the month. If you own a business, your payroll taxes for last month are due today. What I am hearing and seeing now, more than ever, is that not all small business owners will be headed to the bank to make that ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
It's no secret that small business owners, by and large, love to hate QuickBooks. While 80% of small businesses use Quickbooks over any other bookkeeping software, at any given moment many of those same business owners find themselves at their wit's end when trying to close out a year's ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Many business owners are reflecting on 2008 and thinking about some improvements for 2009. Once thoughts of recession subside and marketing plans have been drawn up, its usually time to think about financial management. Although the very thought of bookkeeping makes some sick to their stomachs, everyone agrees ...
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