This is a guest post. If interested in submitting a guest post please read our guest posting policy. Controlling Your Finances and Paying Your Debts A company that can manage its resources effectively has a better chance of succeeding. This is one of the tenets of the business world, and this is why resource management needs…
As you know, long gone are days of cumbersome credit card sliders stamping paper copies for vendors and buyers. As we keep moving forward the large, stationary credit card readers bolted onto countertops are also becoming a thing of the past. If you are a business owner looking to find a quick and nimble way…
If you’re unfamiliar with Stock Dividends the best way to describe it is a sum paid out regularly (usually quarterly) by a company to it’s shareholders. Where does this sum come from? Normally out of profits or company reserves. Not bad, eh? You buy a stock and then get paid back a regular and consistent…
Emergency funds are a well discussed topic in the work of personal finance. Before I started my own blog, I never really considered one. It was a total after thought. As an ”emergency” situation arose, we found a way to deal with it which usually involved rearranging bills in some way and always figuring it…
As a shareholder of a publicly traded company, you generally have the right to vote on certain corporate actions. The board of directors can be reshuffled, mergers and acquisitions must be approved and amended bylaws are subject to voter approval. What shareholders do not get to vote on are stock splits and ordinary dividends (there…
As a small investor with less than a couple of million dollars in the market, you should not be losing money. There’s no reason for people to lose money yet time and time again, I see exactly that. Investors have every tool to make good investment decisions, but they still buy a stock when it’s…
In some ways, publicly traded companies are not that much different from individuals. They must generate income and a positive cash flow in order to operate just like you and I need a cash flow to survive and pay our bills. Not unlike individuals, a company can also file for bankruptcy if its obligations become…
“My friend told me about this mining stock that will spike from $0.001 to $5 over the next 6 months.” WOW, this is a great investment right?…wrong. Almost everyday someone calls me to talk about some hot penny stock that they know is going to take off. They got this “tip” from some co-worker that…
Being an entrepreneur takes guts! An entrepreneur should know that it’s no easy task, but the reward if successful is incomparable. They say that over 50% of new businesses fail within 5 years. Did they not work hard enough? Did they have the wrong tools? What was their handicap? “The only place success comes before…
Many people have heard about the fiscal cliff and the devastating toll it will take on our economy if we in fact go over the edge. Because of tax adjustments, people will make about 4% less, business will lay thousands of people off, consumers will stop spending money, home short sales will cease to exist,…