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Top 4 Numbers That Drive Your Business Success

MazumaBusinessAccounting

Are you looking to build your business? As small business owners, it is easy to get distracted by the length of our to-do list and lose sight of the important factors that drive our business’ success. It’s also easy to ignore financial reports when we don’t know how to translate the numbers on the report into key insights about the health and value of our business.

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Why Do People Hire a Financial Advisor? (Video)

Indigo Marketing Agency

Why do people really hire a financial advisor? As a financial professional, I’m sure this question has crossed your mind at least a dozen times. But in order to answer it, you have to look at why people buy any type of product or service. I once heard it said, “People buy aspirin. They don’t buy vitamins.” In other words, people are more concerned about solving their short-term ailments than they are about their long-term well-being.

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Can’t Be Bearish

The Irrelevant Investor

You can't be bearish on the stock market unless you're bearish on the biggest group of stocks in said market. And it's hard to be bearish when you see the type of numbers they're putting up. We'll get to big tech's results in a minute, but first, I want to look at how they've been acting before their earnings, which are coming out right now. The big 5 are all at or near all-time highs (red dots), with a combined market cap approaching $10 trillion.

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Latest on IRS Refunds and Tax Credit

Steve Feinberg

Dear Appletree Client: We want to take a few minutes to talk with you about some issues with the IRS as well as the new monthly child tax credit. Traditionally, many taxpayers use the IRS as their personal savings bank by aiming for large refunds, oftentimes being upset when they either owe money or the amount of refund is substantially less than what they expected.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Mid Summer Heat

Talon Wealth

WEEKLY MARKET UPDATE – July 27, 2021. Markets rose this week as PMI data continues its streak of expansionary readings. Economic data was still mostly disappointing for the week, with housing indicators and unemployment claims coming in under expectations. COVID-19 cases have been rising nationally again, with most new cases being attributed to the “Delta” variant, but so far deaths have not been spiking, a new development that likely can be attributed to large swaths of the population hav

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Animal Spirits: We Love To Spend Money

The Irrelevant Investor

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by Acre Trader, Investing in Farmland. Simplified. Visit acretrader.com to learn more On today’s show we discuss: Crypto leverage Cutting leverage to 20x When to take profits from big winners? 18 years, lol Parents paying their kids' college costs "A struggle for the millenials" Competing against the bond market Ben is wrong on Robinhood Robinhood says most of their investors buy and hold.

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The Misreading of ESG

Inside Information

I ’ve been reviewing a lot more articles about the SRI and ESG investment movements lately than I ever did before, and I think that’s a sign that more people are interested in owning shares of companies that are behaving responsibly—however one might define that. I’m not surprised; the very first time I was exposed to the concept, I viewed the filters as a logical part of the equity research process.

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles Kind of UBI is not actually UBI (By Allison Schrager) A job that lets you be open and honest pays a bonus that’s hard to measure. (By Morgan Housel) Nothing sends investors back to the drawing board like a long bout of disappointment (By Nir Kaissar) Why are the central bankers so keen to characterize the private issuance of money as inherently unstable?

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Bonds and Inflation

The Irrelevant Investor

So this is different. Inflation has never been this high, with bond yields this low. Rates should, in theory, be a way to gauge what market participants think about future inflation. Higher inflation would cripple today's coupons, so again, in theory, investors would demand higher rates for that risk. But investing isn't about theories. At some point, we need to acknowledge reality.

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Avoiding Lease Accounting Pitfalls in 2025: Lessons Learned from Spreadsheet Errors

Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

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Something Money Can’t Buy

The Irrelevant Investor

I have a lot of flaws. Too many to list. Fine, I'll list a few. I'm disorganized. I'm forgetful. I can't plan anything to save my life. I'm messy. I procrastinate. I can go on, but I'll leave it there. If I had to point to one thing that's served me well in life, and it's a short list, it's that I tell the truth. I didn't decide to wake up today and pat myself on the back.

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