Money Rant

By Aydan Corkern

 Almost no one enjoys having to keep up with every little receipt when they spend money for things, but just ask those who file an itemized tax return each year how important that it and they can tell you it is invaluable. If you plan to file an itemized return keeping up with everything might seem a little much, but it has to be done. You never know which ones will come in handy. What might not be a tax deduction at the beginning of a year might be usable by the end of the year. This might not happen often, but why not be ready if it is? When filing an itemized return you must use every small advantage you can.

They key to not letting this drive you crazy is keeping a handle on your paperwork all year long. This can save you hours and hours of sifting and sorting at the end of the year. If you can not seem to get your receipts and other tax related papers organized each month, you should at least do it quarterly. If you have never filed an itemized return, you should go on line and look up all the information that might be useful to you. If you think that all of the taxing ins and outs might be a little over your head, then your best bet is to have an accountant help you out.

As a matter of fact, hiring a regular accountant is a great idea for anyone who itemizes. This way you will have someone, hopefully, that stays current with all of the new tax laws and helps keep you from missing anything important that can save you money. In case you ever get audited you will also have an accountant to stand with you when you have to face certain scrutiny by the IRS. You never want to face this organization alone especially if you did your return yourself and are not absolutely sure you did everything right.

Tax time does not have to be that scary. When you are sure you have receipts and other records that absolutely back up any claims and deductions on your tax return and you use a reputable accountant with a good history of honesty, you should have no problem. Only those that cheat deliberately on their taxes should really be worried. When you make sure that your records are accurate in the first place, everything should be fine. This is likely to take some time and effort on your part, but it is well worth the effort when and if you do ever get audited.

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Is It Going To Get Harder For Average People To Get Loans
By Aydan Corkern

 Everything that has happened in the economy all point to difficulties for small businesses in obtaining loans. While the bill that is trying to be passed for many of the huge money lending corporations will do wonders to help these institutions stay afloat, it is not going to do a lot for anyone who has a mom and pop business on Main Street in America. When the big companies that loan money to everyone else have to borrow money or sell the bad deals they made to the government, then there is little hope for a small company to be able to get the funds to keep them afloat.

Even when and if the government does pass the Bailout Plan, as it is being called, the guidelines for loaning money are not going to slacken. If anything, the criteria for obtaining a loan for the majority of us regular folks are going to become even stricter. The reason that the huge money lending corporations are getting the help from government to get themselves out of the mess they are in is because of all the bad loans they made to individuals and small companies that could not pay the money back to them.

Many of these bad loans were in the form of high interest home loans. People who had no down payment and an income that was too inadequate to meet the payments when their interest rates went up are losing all of those homes, therefore the money lenders are swamped with all of the foreclosed properties and no one can get new loans to buy them. The money lenders were trying to make big bucks, but when people can not pay and the lender has to take the property back, they have property, but no cash flow.

It is hard for the average person to truly understand how this economic crisis took place so quickly. A few months ago we were skeptical about the state of things and now there is no denying the truth for any of us. We are losing our homes, we are losing our jobs, groceries are going up, fuel for vehicles is going up, and the fuel for our homes will be going up. What is not going to go up anytime soon is our ability to find our own credit bailout. If you are in need to borrow money to sustain your personal home life or your small business, chances are you might not be able to get the funds you need easily.

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Reduce Communication Time By Using Online Meeting Rooms For Mentoring Of Agricultural Clients
By Leanne Isaacson

 Many businesses still rely on old fashioned communication methods such as fax machines, phone calls and regular mail delivery services. While these methods can certainly facilitate completion of a task, they are not always the most cost effective and efficient method to leverage. Many business owners discover that by learning and utilizing newer forms of technology that their communication speed and costs are reduced allowing for their business overall to run more smoothly.

One of my clients is an agricultural consulting firm that has been mentoring agricultural clients on a monthly basis over the telephone.

Their clients who were predominantly farmers would provide information to the consulting firm so that they could analyze and prepare feedback for their monthly business development calls. The farmers were entering their information into the consulting firms software program in order to produce a variety of financial reports, including:

Stocking rates

Paddock records

Budgets

Financial information

Pasture management

Before their scheduled monthly mentoring sessions, the farmer would print out each of these reports to fax to the consulting firm. The consulting firm and the farmer would then review and discuss these reports during their scheduled call time.

While this system produced some results for the farmer, there were several assumptions being made that may have hindered the full effects that the farmer was gaining from their mentoring time. One of the assumptions that was being made was that both individuals were looking at the same materials while communicating. And, that the communication with regards to these materials was fully understood. The information being discussed and the changes that were being proposed during these scheduled calls was the basis for the farmers ability to improve their business. The consulting firm was also relying on the implementation efforts of the farmer once the call had been concluded.

As an alternative option, the agricultural consulting firm began to utilize an online meeting room instead of a scheduled call to communicate directly with their clients.

One of the immediate values that both parties noticed was the ability to view documents and the proposed changes live instead of each party being responsible for their own note taking and follow up following the mentoring calls. For examples budgets were changed and the impact immediately seen!

Overall, switching the method of communication from the telephone to an online meeting room has enabled the process of mentoring to be more collaborative and more efficient, ultimately leading to an increase in the desired results on the part of the farmer.

Leanne Isaacson has been specialising in E Business Development/Online Learning for the past 5 yrs, Adult Education and Agriculture for past 20 years.

Leanne can inspire your business to grow using online meeting rooms! Visit her website, Inspiring Growth

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