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Ways to Keep Adult Children from Becoming a Financial Liability
This article explains several scenarios where your child may be asking you for financial help. First, they may have taken many loans and want your help with EMIs. The author suggests turning the child to a financial advisor to keep your finances intact. Secondly, the child may want a loan to help with a start-up…
Crucial Steps You Can Use To Take Control of Your Finances in 2022 and Beyond
As the old saying goes, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Whoever coined that phrase was absolutely talking about finances, whether they realized it or not. According to one recent study, a general lack of financial education costs Americans a collective $415 billion every single year. Not only is the average amount…
A Message from Our Managing Member Don Mobley
We Continue to Press On! We want to take this opportunity to thank our clients, employees, and friends of the firm for a successful 2021, and we’re looking forward to a promising 2022. As the pandemic persists, we stay positive, and we are determined to press on. Our nation continues to recover from the pandemic-induced…
Tax Deductions and Credits to Consider in 2022
This article discusses how there are two main strategies that individuals can take advantage of in order to lower their tax bills, deductions, and credits. While tax deductions lower your taxable income, tax credits are “a dollar-for-dollar reduction to your tax bill.” However, many people do not know of or forget about all the things…
Estate Planning Should Include What Happens to Digital Assets and Cryptocurrency
This article explains how the assets people own have become more complicated, making it a little more difficult to include everything in your will. Only about 46% of Americans have made provisions for how their money and estate should be handled, according to a 2021 Gallup poll. Abby Schneiderman, co-founder and co-CEO of Everplans, which…
Embracing a New Era of Innovation in 2022
This article explains the importance of building your company’s online structure in a growing technological world. Technology is more powerful than ever challenging a business to restructure in new ways where it can sustain itself in a new market. It offers an opportunity to grow in every aspect because every facet of your brand can…
The Benefits of Business Valuation for Small Businesses
This article demonstrates the possibilities a small business can pursue after receiving a valuation. A valuation can give small business owners benefits such as tracking progress and “a road map to deliberate decision making.” Some other benefits that come along with a business valuation include access to more investors, better decision making to improve your…
The importance of Having a Plan When Including Family in Business
In this article Jolene Brown, a family business consultant points to four major mistakes when breaking down a family business. She firstly points out that assuming all genetic relationships equal good working relationships is wrong. Brown says “acceptance in a family should be unconditional, but acceptance into a business should be conditional and is not…
What the End-of-Work Landscape Looks Like Now
This article discusses how the coronavirus pandemic forced many employees to look towards their 401(k) plan in order to borrow cash for personal financial burdens. However. “About 47% of employees who took a retirement loan say they ended up taking more than they needed,” according to research from Voya Financial. Through the years, more and…
Determining If Your Vacation Rentals Are Really Commercial Real Estate
This article discusses the ins and outs of a tax strategy known as a cost segregation study, and in particular, for those that own a vacation rental real estate. When the property is leased out for less than 30 days at a time, it could be recognized as non-residential real estate property. Therefore, taxpayers should…