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Taking Advantage of Your Home Office

MazumaBusinessAccounting

“Stay home and stay safe” has been the common phrase these last few months because of the pandemic development. Are you using your home for business? If so, you can deduct those expenses. Small business owners have been asked to run their company from their homes. Here at Mazuma, we want to help all of our clients stay compliant, stay organized and, most important save on taxes.

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The Rise and the Fall

The Irrelevant Investor

As the 20th century was coming to a close, the dominant retailer J.C. Penney had a market capitalization of $20 billion. Today it's down to $60 million and with $4 billion in debt coming due, they're on the brink of bankruptcy. During the 1990s, JCP, along with American Airlines, Citigroup, Exxon Mobil, Ford Motors, General Electric, IBM, Transocean, U.S.

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Sustainable Investing Webcast

Brown Advisory

Sustainable Investing Webcast. mmckenna. Wed, 05/06/2020 - 14:50. Portfolio managers Karina Funk, CFA and Amy Hauter, CFA discuss how our ESG research philosophy and process have guided portfolio decision making during this period of market volatility due to COVID-19. . Please register or sign in to your Brighttalk account in order to access this webcast.

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How To Grow Your Retirement Business In The 2020 Economic Crisis (Webinar)

Indigo Marketing Agency

How To Grow Your Retirement Plan Business In The 2020 Economic Crisis. If you’re like most advisors, you’re likely starting to come up for air after the shock of the coronavirus pandemic. Now that you’ve contacted your clients, rebalanced accounts, and communicated your plans, it’s time to think about growing your business during this crisis.

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

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, 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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Introducing Coverage Critic: Time to Kill the $80 Mobile Phone Bill Forever

Mr. Money Mustache

A Quick Foreword: Although the world is still in Pandemic mode, we are shifting gears back to personal finance mode here at MMM. Partly because we could all use a distraction right now, and even more important because forced time off like this is the ideal time to re-invest in optimizing parts of your life such as your fitness, food and finances. Canadian Readers – we have also collected some recommendations for you at a new Canadian Mobile Phone recommendations page. — Every now and

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Beyond Investing: Strategic Advice for Nonprofits

Brown Advisory

Beyond Investing: Strategic Advice for Nonprofits ajackson Mon, 05/04/2020 - 14:54 Running a nonprofit is a tall order. The missions that these organizations tackle— helping vulnerable families, advancing health care, and protecting the environment, just to name a few—are incredibly challenging. And in parallel with their program work, nonprofit leaders must also build the financial and organizational infrastructure to sustain those programs.

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Ben’s Message

MazumaBusinessAccounting

May Newsletter. Nine years ago, we started a small company that helps small businesses with their bookkeeping, taxes, and accounting…a simple but needed service. I value the entrepreneurial spirit and understand the hard work and dedication it takes to run a small business. There are few pursuits that demand more character and grit than keeping your doors open amidst the chaos and risks the world throws at you.

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Off the Charts

The Irrelevant Investor

Private payrolls were just released, and we found out that they fell by more than 20 million in April, which is the worst drop in ADP survey history. This chart , like so many others, has been permanently impaired by the complete halt in economic activity. Oil went off the charts. Initial jobless claims will never look the same This chart from the WSJ shows the massive amount of unemployment benefits being paid out by the federal government.

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More is Less

The Irrelevant Investor

There is no investment strategy so good that it cannot be undone by excessive leverage. The New York Times ran an article, ‘A Bargain With the Devil’—Bill Comes Due for Overextended Airbnb Hosts. They wrote: For years, Cheryl Dopp considered the ding on her phone from a new Airbnb Inc. booking to be the sound of what she called “magical money”.Now, Ms.

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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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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles We’ve learned this year that assumptions you have about the future can be destroyed overnight By Morgan Housel Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points. By The Technium Arguing that it’s time to build suggests that it is no longer a time to hack. By Myles Udland It is because buying stocks at discounted prices feels wrong, that it can often turn out to be right By Jamie Catherwood and Travis Fairchild What would happen if a fund — any fund — owned assets that suddenly had negative valu

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What Happens When the Parts Are Bigger than the Whole?

The Irrelevant Investor

"There are limits to size and growth" -Geoffrey West The S&P 500 has had annualized revenue growth of 3.5% over the last decade. I heard this from Chris Bloomstran during a conversation with Patrick O'Shaughnessy. They were talking about this in the context of why tech can't continue to grow at the breakneck pace that we've grown accustomed to.

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