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Four Symptoms Your Accounting System Doesn’t Work
Every year about this time, I see too many accounting systems that don’t work… QuickBooks and PeachTree and Microsoft Small Business Accounting programs that don’t do what their small business users want or need...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Business Management
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Three Easy Pension Plan Options For Small Businesses
Procrastinating about setting up a pension for your small business Don't...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Business Management
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Paying Off Your Credit Card Balances
Ever thought about paying off your credit card balances Maybe you would like to be debt free just to reduce your stress...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Forecasting The Future Value Of Your 403(b)
If you’ve got Microsoft Excel (or just about any other popular spreadsheet program) running on your computer, you can use its FV function to forecast the future value of your 403(b) account...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Calculating Depreciation For Your Investments
Investing in real estate Thinking about buying new equipment for your business...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Tax Traps To Avoid When Incorporating A Business
As a general rule, you can incorporate your business with no tax cost as long as you contribute all of your business’s assets and liabilities to a corporation you control...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Business
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Four Reasons Not To Form A Limited Liability Company
Don’t get me wrong I think LLCs, or limited liability companies, are great...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Business
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The Dirty Little Secret: Why Roth-IRA Conversions Usually Don't Make Sense
My multimillionaire client Bill called me the other day He wanted to talk about congress recently loosening the rules about who can convert regular IRA accounts to Roth-IRA accounts...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Tax Tips For Real Estate Investors Using Ira Funds
You’ve seen the advertisements and news articles IRA funds can be used to make real estate investments...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Tax Traps For New Real Estate Investors
Perhaps one shouldn’t be surprised that new real estate investors fall into the same tax traps again and again...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Real Estate
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Tax Tips For New Ecommerce Entrepreneurs
New ecommerce entrepreneurs can find them confused and confounded by the tax and accounting requirements of their venture...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Business
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Forming Your LLC In Nevada: Does It Really Work?
If you’ve done much web research about setting up a limited liability company, or llc, you’ve seen the advertisements that tout Nevada...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Business
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Three Dumbest LLC Formation Mistakes
I see a lot of dumb llc formation mistakes Maybe more than most people because I occasionally teach on class on LLC formation...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Business
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The Big Hidden Tax Benefits Of Sole Proprietorship
I once taught a graduate tax class about choosing between an LLC and an S corporation Probably for this reason, people frequently ask me about which entity form they should chose...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Business
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Tax Tips For Writers & Authors
Sometimes, another writer, upon learning that I'm both a book author and tax accountant, asks me for the best ways that authors can minimize their income taxes...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Writing
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Determining How Much Life Insurance You Need
When considering life insurance, you’re planning and preparing for an event most of us would rather not think about...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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When IRAs, 401(k)s, And Other Tax-Sheltered Investments Don’t Make Sense
Every year about this time, people start talking about and considering things like IRA contributions...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Read This If You Can’t Possibly Save Enough For Retirement
It’s relatively easy to save for retirement when you’re still young Five thousand dollars set aside for a new baby grows to an amount that generates over a $100,000 a year in current-day dollars if the money earns 12 percent annually and inflation runs at 3 percent...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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How To Avoid Dumb Investment Mistakes
Smart people sometimes make dumb mistakes when it comes to investing Part of the reason for this, I guess, is that most people don’t have the time to learn what they need to know to make good decisions...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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A CPA Talks About Buying Life Insurance
Not everyone needs life insurance The first thing to do is make sure you need it...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Choosing And Using Credit Cards
Credit cards are convenient, but they’re also dangerous A lot of people ruin their financial lives by turning the phrase “charge it” into a reflex...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Eight Rules For Buying Insurance Of Any Kind
By following the eight rules explained here, you can save money, and just as important, you can save yourself from making serious mistakes when you shop for and acquire insurance policies...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Free Money For Your Retirement?
It can be more than a little discouraging to start making retirement planning calculations You’ll usually find that to achieve the annual retirement income you want, you need to be saving a lot more than is practical...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Brain-Dead Mutual Fund Selection
About this time every year, the personal finance magazines will perform an annual ritual: Looking at how mutual funds have performed over the past year—and then using that information to suggest which mutual funds you should pick for the coming year...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Microsoft Money Investment Recordkeeping Tricks
Microsoft Money provides powerful investment record-keeping tools for individual investors Unfortunately, once you step beyond investments like stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, the mechanics can get a little tricky...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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When To Use Microsoft Money For Mutual Fund Recordkeeping
While you might assume any mutual fund investor should use Money’s mutual fund record-keeping tools, that isn’t the case...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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When Quickbooks Doesn’t Balance
After you’ve been using QuickBooks for while and have been balancing your account regularly, you will only irregularly have trouble reconciling it...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Fixing Microsoft Money Loan Calculation Errors
It is possible that the breakdown of a payment into principal and interest that Microsoft Money makes will be incorrect...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Quicken Investment Recordkeeping Tricks
Quicken provides powerful investment record-keeping tools for individual investors Unfortunately, once you step beyond investments like stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, the mechanics can get a little tricky...
Author: Stephen Nelson - Category: Finances
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Fixing Quicken Loan Calculation Errors
It is possible that the breakdown of a payment into principal and interest that Quicken makes will be incorrect...
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