Bank finance articles and tips

Article explaining how you can make more money in retirement.
Having a long and happy retirement is something all of us will no doubt want to achieve after spending most of our lives working hard. Although money cannot buy happiness of course it does ensure a certain level of comfort which makes a real difference once you have stopped working. Not having enough money in retirement will mean having to live below your desired standard of living. If you find that once you are retired you don’t have a satisfactory level of income there are a number of options available for boosting your income.

This article looks at earnings management, starting with a definition and getting more broad by providing a current example. Then, we examine causes and techniques, finally ending with ethics.

Last month an interesting article was published on a blog which made a very useful reference to on line music, and iTunes in particular, in relation to ebilling. In his article the author suggested that if we thought about bills in music terms:
- CDs (and the artists that produce them) are like paper bills;
- Listening to music online is like logging in to a portal to view and pay your bill; and
- Downloading a song (file) to your chosen device from iTunes is like receiving your bill as a file (attachment) to your PC, tablet, iPhone, Android, Blackberry etc.

Before you get all excited the message of this article is that there is no holy grail when it comes to trading foreign currency. Every day some online website begins to market the next great trading system which is just a rehash of the one they did last week, last month and last year. Often people ask about how relevant the articles they read are when they are more than a couple of months old. This most often occurs when new traders are reminded how fast the Forex market moves. However, solid strategies never go out of style and their implementation is the only variable that exists between successful traders and unsuccessful ones....

Entrepreneurs Relief in the UK is an excellent tax incentive for entrepreneurs to create British companies and then sell them for a significant profit. Even though Entrepreneurs Relief may assist you in significantly avoiding capital gains tax (CGT), if you have the choice, why pay any capital gains tax at all if this can be legally achieved? The question of avoiding capital gains tax on the sale of your business will be addressed later in this article. Capital gains tax advice accelerates wealth building for the Entrepreneur through even greater profit....

You know that feeling of stress that overwhelms you as you try and correctly fill out those confusing IRS forms during tax time? Well, that's nothing compared to the sinking feeling you get when a certified letter from the IRS shows up in your mailbox. In fact, it is a near statistical certainty that sooner or later in life there will come a time when you have to deal with the IRS on some level.

Whether it is something minor like substantiating a simple tax deduction on your 1040 to something more serious like a broad scope IRS audit, knowing where and how to negotiate with the IRS will greatly improve your chances of a positive and speedy outcome.

In this article series, "Negotiating with the IRS: 6 tips from a tax professional", I will cover when, where, and how to successfully negotiate with the IRS. Each topic has been written as a stand alone article, but below you will find a summary of each....