Finance

  • Personal Bankruptcy

    Personal Bankruptcy

    As mentioned earlier, personal bankruptcy can be filed for under Chapter 7(for almost complete elimination of debts) and the more conditional and restrictive Chapter 13 of the federal bankruptcy code. Basically, the provisions under personal bankruptcy allow a genuinely insolvent individual to wipe the slate...

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  • Types of Bankruptcy

    Types of Bankruptcy

    In the US, a party can file for either Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy. In Chapter 7 or ‘straight’ bankruptcy, the applicant surrenders all non-exempt property and assets to an appointed bankruptcy official. These are converted into cash and the proceeds are disbursed to...

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  • Basic Bookkeeping

    Basic Bookkeeping

    J. R. Baltiboi has observed that Bookkeeping is the art of recording business dealings in a set of books. Bookkeeping is the science and art of systematically recording, classifying and summarizing the financial transactions or events of a business in a set of books. A...

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  • Bookkeeping

    Bookkeeping

    Bookkeeping is the science and art of systematic recording, classifying and summarizing of financial transactions or events of a business in a set of books. A business transaction means the exchange of money or items of value between two or more persons. Spicer and Pegler...

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  • Bookkeeping Jobs

    Bookkeeping Jobs

    Bookkeeping jobs require people to track companies’ expenses, and prepare, analyze and validate financial documents. They look for ways to run businesses more efficiently, keep public records and make sure taxes are paid properly. They keep updating the journals and ledger books of the company....

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  • Bookkeeping Services

    Bookkeeping Services

    In a changing world, with globalization, technological advances and a continual revalidation of methods of doing business, business owners have choices when it comes to managing time and business. A business owner can spend much of his/her time expanding the business, or buried under paperwork,...

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  • Bookkeeping Software

    Bookkeeping Software

    The process of Bookkeeping is cumbersome. Small human errors can cause big damage to the company. Computers have made this hectic process very easy. Computerized Bookkeeping simplifies the Bookkeeping and accounting procedures. Speed, accuracy, automation and versatility make computers better accountant than humans, and provide...

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  • Double Entry Bookkeeping

    Double Entry Bookkeeping

    Double-entry Bookkeeping is one of the standard accounting practices for recording financial transactions. Five hundred years ago it was codified for the first time by Luca Pacioli. The conceptual framework is that a business can be described by a number of different accounts, each describing...

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  • Online Bookkeeping Course

    Online Bookkeeping Course

    Understanding basic Bookkeeping procedures is vital to developing and controlling activities in business. Every company seeks talented Bookkeepers. It is necessary that students of Bookkeeping must be interested in gaining knowledge of basic Bookkeeping practices to plan a profitable future or seek a new career....

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  • Cash Advance

    Cash Advance

    Cash advances are an important and popular way to meet minor emergencies in finance. It is based on a short-term need. The process of availing of cash advances is quite easy and fast. There are various options for short-term loans. Most banks and financial companies...

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  • Cash Registers

    Cash Registers

    A cash register is a mechanical or electronic device for calculating and recording sales transactions. It has an attached cash drawer for storing currency and also prints a receipt for the customers. While operating a retail business, wherein cash transactions are high, cash registers are...

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  • Bank Checks

    Bank Checks

    When a bank issues a check on its own account to a customer, it is called a bank check. Such checks are issued for payment to a third party and are also variously called as cashier’s check or treasurer’s check. Such checks are generally treated...

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  • Business Checks

    Business Checks

    Business checks are generally beneficial to people issuing more than 1000 checks a year. A business check is designed specifically for the needs of businesses. Normally when a business account is opened with a bank, a business checkbook with 100 checks is issued to the...

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  • Checks

    Checks

    Checks are negotiable instruments asking a bank to pay a specific amount of money from a specific account to a bearer or payee. The account is ideally in the depositor’s name with the bank. The depositor or check maker and the payee can be either...

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  • Personal Checks

    Personal Checks

    Personal checks are customized bank checks. Generally people with an aesthetic sense or those with a thing for colors, designs and style go for such checks. Modern day checks are both timeless and compelling, coming in a myriad shades. They are printed on recycled paper...

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  • Commodities

    Commodities

    Like a stock exchange, a commodity exchange is also an organized market that functions under established rules and regulations. This market is meant for the purchase and sale of commodities. The commodities, which are generally traded in at the commodity exchanges, include natural produce of...

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  • Commodity Brokers

    Commodity Brokers

    Speculative activities on commodity exchanges are undertaken by operators who have enough resources and speculate regularly. These operators are called brokers. Speculative deals on commodity exchanges fall into four categories. Firstly, there are forward deals which are the usual speculative transactions in which a person...

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  • Commodity Future

    Commodity Future

    Future trading is the most notable feature of business activity on the commodity exchange. In fact the commodity exchanges are organized mainly for futures contracts. The futures contracts are made for distinct purposes: speculation and hedging. Accordingly they are either speculative or hedging contracts. Speculative...

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  • Commodity Trading

    Commodity Trading

    Transactions on the commodity exchanges fall into two broad categories: cash contracts and futures contracts. Accordingly, the commodity exchange may be a cash market or a futures market or may combine both. The cash contracts for the purchase of sale of commodities are those which...

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  • Business Contracts

    Business Contracts

    A business contract is a legal promise made between two or more parties. A contract may be drawn when the associated parties wish to enter into a transaction like buying or selling, performing services, leasing properties, collaborating in joint ventures, advertising, manufacturing, distributing or selling...

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  • Contracts

    Contracts

    A contract is an agreement between two or more parties to undertake a task. A contract may be oral, communicated, written or just plain understood. Contracts may be between any two people. An acceptance of a son to do a chore for the mother in...

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  • Employment Contracts

    Employment Contracts

    An employment contract is a documented agreement between an employer and an employee. It is legally binding. The main features of an employment contract are the job portfolio of the employee and the manner in which the employer will make monetary compensation. Companies have a...

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  • CPA Exam

    CPA Exam

    When you pass the CPA exam you have literally opened the door to a world of opportunities. You are a highly respected finance professional in the United States and internationally, and you are in the upper echelons of financial management. CPA or “certified public accountants”...

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  • An Introduction To Debt Consolidation

    An Introduction To Debt Consolidation

    Debt consolidation refers to a process in which multiple loans are replaced by a single loan. The installment of the single loan is generally lower than the aggregate installments of multiple loans. The repayment period for this new single loan is much longer than the...

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  • Bad Credit Debt Consolidation

    Bad Credit Debt Consolidation

    If you are a bad credit borrower, which means your have defaulted quite badly on your earlier credits and hence your credit rating is extremely poor, there is still no need to file for bankruptcy. A way out from your current crisis can be provided...

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