How to Create a Smart Credit Policy
An entrepreneur's guide to offering trade credit, crafting a credit application, and evaluating a customer's credit-worthiness Read story
Personal Finance
Collection Techniques to Avoid
Past-due accounts present a number of problems, one of which is how to collect them. When faced with this uncomfortable issue, avoid using these collectio... Read story
Headline Was In Error
The headline for the illustration for the Personal Finance article on Retired Lives Reserve (April) is misleading. The figures are apparently for a conve... Read story
Insuring Your Home-Based Business
It's a mistake to rely on a homeowner's or renter's insurance policy to cover the assets of your home-based business. These policies often exclude or stri... Read story
Leaving Property to Young Children
Most parents, at one time or another, give serious thought to what would happen to their children in the unhappy - and very unlikely - event that one or b... Read story
Exceptions to Early Distribution Penalties
Most people who have retirement accounts--either IRAs or qualified plans through an employer--understand the importance of leaving these funds untouched u... Read story
Health Insurance Tips
For Peter Hermann, health insurance is a headache. "Health insurance is a remarkably large expense, even for a 15-personfirm like ours," says Hermann, a g... Read story
Shopping for Retirement
It's not easy to find retirement plans suitable for entrepreneurial companies. Ask Brooke Dickinson, the president of Ditco, aKent, Wash.... Read story
Top Myths about Retirement Plans
1. You cannot take money out of your 401(k) plan until you retire. Most 401(k) plans allow you to borrow money from the plan. Some... Read story
Retirement Account Withdrawal Rules: A Summary
Your Age Withdrawal Rules Read story
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PRACTICAL CASH-SAVING IDEAS FROM INC. READERS Read story
New Insurance Helps You Put Up A Fight
Until recently, if a small businessman was faced with a lawsuit not covered by traditional liability insurance, he had two options: He could settle out of... Read story
How can I establish the creditworthiness of a company that's a prospective customer?
Offices & Operations mentor Charles J. Bodenstab responds: A credit report on the potential customer is a good starting point, but I... Read story
Ira's And Sep's: Retirement Plans Made Easy
New changes in the lawmake payroll-deduction Individual Retirement Accounts and Simplified Employee Pensions a corporate option worth considering. Read story
Financial Services Associations
Industry-specific associations can help you research hard-to-find details about the industry you're in and offer valuable networking opportunities with bu... Read story
Insurance Associations
Industry-specific associations can help you research hard-to-find details about the industry you're in and often offer valuable networking opportunities w... Read story
Rx For Trimming Health-care Costs
Five ways to counter the spiraling cost of employee coverage. Read story
Liability Policies For Retired Owners
A new kind of small business liability insurance policy is being sold exclusively to business owners who have retired and closed up shop. Introduced by th... Read story
Business Insurance: A 12-Point Checklist
In the weeks since the September 11 tragedies, some formerly mundane business considerations have suddenly become glaring priorities. Adequate business in... Read story
How An Employee Perk Can Be A Tax Advantage
One small company owner, with a preference for profit-sharing, ended up with a pension plan instead. Read story
Increasing Web-Site Traffic
If you build it, will they come? Last year, Internet sales reached $79 billion, according to Forrester Research, or 3% of all retail sales. Can your busin... Read story
What's New for 2004
April 15, 2004, is the due date for the first installment of estimated tax--something that sole proprietors and owners of pass-through entities should not... Read story
Pay Now, Learn Later
You can protect yourself against college tuition hikes. But the scheme backfires if your kid goes to the state university By now you probably kno... Read story
Do-It-Yourself Aid
Is college around the corner? Families too wealthy for need-based aid are turning to the tax code to help pay the bill. Ashley Young, 18, is begi... Read story
Don't Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella
Buying insurance after cashing out. Read story
Health Insurance Premiums Continue to Climb
While the increases slowed over the past year, more companies are planning to pass the costs on to their employees. Read story
401(K) Plans
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Annuities
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Budget Deficit
The phrase, "budget deficit," is normally applied to situations where, at the end of a calendar or fiscal year, a public entity turns out to have spent mo... Read story
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
Related Terms: Family and Medic... Read story
Credit Bureaus
A credit bureau is an agency that collects and sells information about the credit-worthiness, or the ability to meet debt obligations, of individuals and ... Read story
Credit Evaluation and Approval
Related Terms: Cash Flow Management Credi... Read story
Credit History
A credit history is a record of an individual or company's past borrowing and repaying behavior. In the case of individuals, these records are collected a... Read story
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Related Terms: Pension Plans ; Read story
Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
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Employment Practices Liability Insurance
Related Terms: Americ... Read story
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was established as an independent administrative agency pursuant to the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914. The purpo... Read story
Financial Planners
Financial planners are individuals who advise both people and companies about how to invest their assets. Most financial planners are professionals who he... Read story
Health Insurance Options
Related Terms: Employee Benefits Health in... Read story
Health Maintenance Organizations and Preferred Provider Organizations
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