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Business owners who operate "green" offices do more than protect the environment -- they save money on electricity, supplies, and operations in general. And they avoid running afoul of environmental protection laws.

Student loan-forgiveness scams are common, and they are likely to become more prevalent when deferred loan payments resume in September. For more than 40 million Americans, student loan debt is a reality. What’s not real, however, is a blanket student loan-forgiveness program offered by the government. 

The water stop for a major marathon is a fascinating place to be. Pre-race, police and tow truck drivers move parked cars blocking the marathon path. Post-race, the street is shoveled, and empty cups are swept into trash bags

The Securities and Exchange Commission has created Investor.gov, a useful resource for the investing public prepared in ordinary, nonlegal, and nontechnical language. The website includes financial tools and calculators, as well as articles of general interest for investors.

The reaction to COVID-19 has been a case study in economic theory. Direct cash payments from the government to individuals and corporations were made for the first time in 2020.

What do you get when you cross art with the technology behind digital currencies such as bitcoin? The answer is a “Non-Fungible Token” or NFT.

The home office deduction is probably the most misunderstood deduction – misunderstood by non-tax professionals, of course – among all the entries in the tax code.

Smartphone technology has greatly simplified routine business activities with mobile banking – providing access to company accounts using a smartphone to connect with your commercial bank.

In 2019, the last pre-pandemic year, deaths in the USA totaled 2.85 million. This jumped to 3.39 million in 2020, with most of the excess deaths attributed to Covid-19.

According to the latest data from the National Vital Statistics Reports (March 2022, reporting on 2019 experience, so before the pandemic), a male age 65 should expect to live 18.2 more years (to age 83.2) and a female 20.8 years (to age 85.8).

Of all the necessary functions a business must perform each day, few are more costly or inefficient than handling paper transactions – processing, posting, printing, mailing, and tracking checks.

The pandemic led to many people retiring earlier they had planned, in part because so many businesses had to shrink their payrolls in response to the lockdowns. As the pandemic has eased, now the American economy has a labor shortage problem

Have you thought about retirement? If you’re like most business owners, unless you’re within 10 years of the normal retirement date, you probably haven’t given it serious thought.

Ideal candidates for business loans generate sufficient cash flow to cover loan payments; have a solid, long-term track record of meeting financial obligations; have financial reserves to weather unexpected downturns or setbacks; and have collateral to put up for security.

One of the biggest misconceptions I come across in the financial advice industry is that as you get older, you must reduce your allocation to stocks. While this philosophy might be grounded in some truth, it oversimplifies the reality.