So if you are getting ready for the Black Friday After – Thanksgiving Sales, you might want to read this post in The Christian Science Monitor by The Dealnews Staff: http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Saving-Money/2013/1107/Black-Friday-2013-16-myths-debunked-video As the authors say, the more you know, the better prepared you will be for the sales. Now try not to get trampled getting a deal on an Infinity game for your kids or a new case for your IPod! For financial, accounting and tax musings, You can count on us to count for you! email: bstonercpa@sbcglobal.net phone: 818-317-6035 Website: www.briantstonercpa.com https://twitter.com/bstonercpa
Musings of a Burbank CPA: Why We Want—But Can’t Have—Personal Finance in Schools
We all agree that personal finance classes in school makes a tremendous amount of sense, for us and our kids. The problem is getting it accomplished. Apparently the “feeling that we know nothing about personal finance” isn’t just in the family side of things, it is also in the education system, the people expected to teach our students this stuff. See this post by Dan Kadlec in Time Magazine Business and Money to see what is being done about it: http://business.time.com/2013/10/10/why-we-want-but-cant-have-personal-finance-in-schools/ Apparently the incredible volume of information out there is putting off people. When you have too much choice, it causes paralysis and makes progress go forward at a snail’s pace. The author feels that this uneven effort to spread this knowledge is getting in the way of spreading the knowledge (duh). Maybe families will just have to figure a way to handle some (or all) of this at home. Because in the long run aren’t we responsible for educating our kids, especially in the real world? For financial, accounting and tax musings, You can count on us to count for you! email: bstonercpa@sbcglobal.net phone: 818-317-6035 Website: www.briantstonercpa.com https://twitter.com/bstonercpa
Musings of a Burbank CPA: Here’s your unemployment check. Now pay it back
Well now that the Federal Government shutdown is over (for now?), state governments want unemployment benefits paid to federal workers paid back. Here are some of the details in CNN Money by Annalyn Kurtz: http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/18/news/economy/federal-workers-unemployment/index.html While the states are entitled to the money back (the Fed paid backpay up to the date the government shut down), they should be patient and not make a big problem worse. Hopefully they can arrange payment plans with the employees or maybe they can have a payment taken out of the federal employee’s paychecks! For financial, accounting and tax musings, You can count on us to count for you! email: bstonercpa@sbcglobal.net phone: 818-317-6035 Website: www.briantstonercpa.com https://twitter.com/bstonercpa