Tips to Keep Your Financial Records Well-Organized
Keeping your financial records well-organized is important for more than fulfilling regulations or legal requirements. It also helps you better understand your business, now and in the future. Without a proper record-keeping system, ...
Should You Finish Your Basement?
You bought your house with its unfinished basement assuming it would suffice as a storage and laundry area. Now you’re having second thoughts about it. Turning it into a safe, comfortable recreation area seems tempting, but ...
Should Women Plan Differently for Retirement?
Retirement is a big goal, no matter how far you are into your career. Hopefully you’re already saving and preparing for the day you don’t have to work anymore. When you’ve been charting your progress, do you take your gender ...
Why You Need to Update Your Business Plan
When you drafted your business plan, you outlined your goals and the path you’d take to achieve them. Now that your company is up and running, your business plan might not be an accurate representation of your new goals, the ...
Ideas for Cutting Down on Screen Time
Do you reach for your phone the moment you receive a notification? Do you often spend 30 minutes scrolling through social media when you only meant to spend five? If you’re ready to kick these bad habits, follow these simple ...
Steering Clear of Student Aid Scams
Between sending out applications, picking a major and securing funding for your education, preparing for college can be overwhelming. Unfortunately, there’s no shortage of scammers that are ready and willing to take advantage ...
Managing Your Time When You Work Remotely
Remote work has its share of benefits and challenges. Here are seven ways to boost your success when working from home.
Establish priorities
Determine which tasks are priorities, just as you would in the office, suggests Roy Maurer ...
Common Business Budget Breakers
When you run a small business, every dollar counts. Even with a great vision and budget sheet, you may be losing money on a regular basis by paying too much for things you need or paying for things you don’t actually need at ...
Should You Work With Your Family?
Often, the people you work with become like family. You work side by side for long hours, under stressful deadlines, or in challenging situations. Why not work with people who are part of your family? After all, they have loved ...
Organizing and Storing Your Online Passwords
To safeguard your financial, private, and personal information from identity thieves and hackers, you should use unique passwords for each of your online accounts as well as for each of your devices. From email — both personal ...
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