by | Sep 12, 2016 | Current Affairs, Other, Personal financial planning, Small Business Owners
The sign “You break it, you bought it” is ubiquitous, but is it enforceable? Can a store really force you to pay for merchandise you damage or destroy by accident? According to an article on the website Slate, the answer is yes—although many stores don’t...
by | Sep 6, 2016 | Cash Flow, Current Affairs, Other, Personal financial planning
A remortgage is defined as the repayment of one mortgage by taking out another secured on the same property. This is done mainly to get a new mortgage for a lower rate of interest from a different lender for a better rate. An adverse credit remortgage can prove...
by | Sep 5, 2016 | Current Affairs, Other, Personal financial planning
There are a number of good reasons TV finance shows are not the smartest choice for investment advice. For one thing, the aim of these shows is to get the biggest audience they can in order to sell more advertising, with their financial experts there as much to be...
by | Aug 31, 2016 | Accounting & Bookkeeping, Cash Flow, Current Affairs, Income Taxes, Tax Tip of The Week
Tax deductions reduce your taxable income and cut your taxes by the amount of your top tax bracket. For example: If you make a $100 tax-deductible contribution to the Red Cross for the Oklahoma tornado relief effort(and I hope you did) and you are in the...
by | Aug 16, 2016 | Cash Flow, Current Affairs, Personal financial planning
In today’s world, the idea of living a debt free lifestyle is pretty much foreign to most people. In general, most people believe that in order to survive they need to live on credit. Only a generation or two ago, people would save up for large purchases such as a car...
by | Aug 2, 2016 | Current Affairs, Other, Personal financial planning
As any financial planner will tell you, investment trends aren't right for everyone. Investment strategies shouldn't change year to year, and they shouldn't be based on what someone with millions of dollars to invest is doing if you only have a limited...
