Why small businesses need to think big this summer hiring season

(BPT) | April 26, 2018 – Why small businesses need to think big this summer hiring season- Finding great employees hasn’t been easy for small businesses lately. And this summer, the competition could heat up even more. Thanks to a healthy economy, unemployment levels are low across the country. Many companies will be adding even… Read More »

Practical Tips on How to Trade Cryptocurrencies

By Rodgers Aluvisia  |    April 25, 2018 For some time now, I have been closely observing the performance of cryptocurrencies to get a feel of where the market is headed. The routine my elementary school teacher taught me-where you wake up, pray, brush your teeth and take your breakfast has shifted a little to waking up, praying and… Read More »

Primer for First Time Home Owners

(NewsUSA) April 24, 2018 – Sponsored by GAF – Finally ready to take the plunge? Join the club. After having waited on the sidelines for what seemed like forever, first-time homebuyers last year made 38 percent of all U.S. single-family home purchases – the biggest share since 2000 – and the 2.07 million new or existing… Read More »

The Strategies from the Genius of Investing

By Derek Bliedeung | April 18, 2018 – Warren Buffett’s’ strategies on investing are to find companies that you trust, believe in and understand the business model. If not walk away now. One must learn to be patient, to wait for these stock prices to fall to value prices, and then hold on the stock… Read More »

Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations

By Martin Hahn | April 17, 2018 The Wealth of Nations is actually a continuation of the philosophical design started in The Theory of Moral Sentiments. The best issue to which Smith addresses himself is the way the internal battle among the passions as well as the “impartial spectator” – explicated in Moral Sentiments in… Read More »

FAR Overhead Rate Calculation and FAR 31 Audits for Government Contracts

By Daryl Joyce  |   March 05, 2018 Which FAR obligations are put forward by government agencies in the contract? In their contract Government can impose varied obligations as per established by FAR. Thus these agencies can be either demanding contract bids or can even insist upon the firm’s overhead rate in accordance with FAR. In addition, it can… Read More »

Investment Opportunity Times Two – Or Is It Four?

By Steve Selengut  |   March 28, 2018 As of March 23, 2018, the S & P 500 (at $2,588.26) was down roughly 10% from its January 26, 2018 all time high of $2,872.87, and down about 3.2% for the year, presumably in anticipation of an imminent trade war. Additionally, interest rate sensitive securities were trading… Read More »

How Do You Get Rich? Reinvest Earnings!

By Chris Bouchard  |   March 29, 2018 Warren Buffett provides inspiration on how to get rich by reinvesting your profits. Together with his partner at that time, the magnate bought four more pinball machines and installed them in a barbershop using money earned from the first machine they had installed as their first investment. Buffets story… Read More »

Why are Asset Graphs Important?

By Chris Bouchard  |   March 29, 2018 Asset graphs are vital visual presentation tools for highlighting financial data in the form of network structures. Financial portfolios in the form of assets decluttering not with complex relationships that arise from different components of business including ownership, management, and geographic location among other elements. The complexity of investment… Read More »

What Makes NFP so Special?

By Chris Bouchard  |    March 29, 2018 The net financial position (NFP) of a business entity shows the difference between the net current assets and the corresponding current liabilities for a given accounting period. The NFP is special and is not to be confused with the definition of profit and loss because NFP is expressly interested… Read More »