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How to Handle Hiring Your Minor Children For Summer Jobs

If you own a business, you often find the summer months are the busiest. Thus, you need as many employees as possible to help shoulder the workload. If…

How to Avoid Being a Victim of a Financial Scam

For both private individuals and small business owners, the threat of financial scams is all too real. Every year, billions of dollars are lost to criminals who have…

How to Choose a CPA

When choosing a CPA, you have many choices. Ideally, you want to find a CPA with whom you can establish a long-term relationship with. This way, you both…

How to Cultivate a Growth Mindset

When you take a close look at people who are successful in their careers and other areas of life, you may think they do not seem that much…

Keeping Employees Safe From Covid In 2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into 2022, companies and employees are facing unprecedented challenges. While some workers, especially those in health care and education, have expressed concerns and…

How Social Security Benefits Will Change in 2022

Though you may be known as a "baby boomer," you and 10,000 others like you are turning 65 each and every day, meaning retirement benefits like Social Security…

How to Make Your CPA’s Job Easier

While your CPA may seem as if they are a superhero at tax time, that doesn't mean they look forward to having to wade through a complex mess…

How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of Financial Fraud

Financial fraud is rampant around the world, but citizens of the U.S. have arguably experienced more than their fair share due to our reputation as a wealthy country.…

How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of Financial Fraud

Financial fraud is rampant around the world, but citizens of the U.S. have arguably experienced more than their fair share due to our reputation as a wealthy country.…

How to Host a Successful Business Webinar

Webinars are more popular than ever, thanks to restrictions on in-person social gatherings. You may be planning on hosting a webinar for your own business or as an…

11 Tips to Keep Your Online Banking Secure

Gone are the days when you had to drive to the bank to do a single transaction. Research has shown that more than half of the adults in…

What to Look For in a CPA

Hiring a CPA to help you with your accounting and your taxes is a smart thing to do. Whether you’re a business owner or a regular taxpayer, a…

Refinancing your Home

Financial Considerations in Refinancing your House: Pros and Cons If you’ve owned your home for a couple of years, you might have started thinking about refinancing. Maybe interest…

Immediate Steps to Take if Your Identity is Stolen

A recent study confirmed that over 16 million people were the victims of identity theft in the span of one year in America alone, which resulted in $16.8…

Preventing Identity Theft

Identity theft isn’t a new crime by any stretch of the imagination.  With the use of electronic fund transactions, electronic tax filing, and the general increase of personal…

What Is Blockchain?

The following article provides a preliminary overview to blockchain technology. Additional information regarding this technology and its potential will be presented in subsequent articles. This information was presented…

Equifax Data Breach

In recent days the world has become familiar with perhaps the largest data breach event ever known to humanity. I’m referring, of course, to the Equifax data breach.…

Choosing the Right Qualified CPA For Your Small Business

When choosing for the right qualified CPA for your business, the goal is to find a business advisor who is qualified to help take you from point A…

Bankruptcy Overview

It’s no wonder that the word “bankruptcy” sends shivers down the backs of debtors who have hit hard financial times. Despite the system’s intent that bankruptcy works as…

Brexit – What Is It and Why Does It Matter?

Brexit is an abbreviation for the term “British exit.” On June 23, 2016, a referendum was passed by voters in the United Kingdom approving the exit of the United…

The IRS Wants You To “Like” Them

Did you know you can get tax info from the IRS on social media? When you’re on social media, probably, the last entity you’d ever want to get…

Choosing The Right Filing Status for Married Couples

To file separately or to file jointly, that is the question. If you were married this past wedding season, congrats! And now is a good time to think…

3 Tips for Budgeting for Your Vacation

Take the vacation you really want to go on. Start planning now for next year’s and you’ll be so happy you did. Vacations are not clearly priced. Even…

How To Benefit From “Payday Someday”

Getting paid next year for this year’s could be a great benefit to you! If you’re self-employed and pay your taxes in full up front, consider holding off…

3 Common Budgeting Pitfalls New Entrepreneurs Fall Into

When it comes to making a budget, good intentions only go so far. Find out how to keep your budget realistic. If you’re a local artist or craftsman…