Making sense of the financial advice industry
We’re midway through National Financial Literacy month and our look at resources and story ideas for addressing personal finance coping skills at various life stages.
We’re midway through National Financial Literacy month and our look at resources and story ideas for addressing personal finance coping skills at various life stages.
Welcome to Money Mondays! April is widely recognized by the financial industry and various consumer protection groups as National Financial Literacy Month, and in honor
We’re at the brink of proxy season now; one of the most interesting times of year to be a business journalist. Proxy statements – or
The annual April 15 income tax filing deadline looms, and just as late January is a good time for those early bird filing season stories,
As a business writer, you might not have had the escalating military and political crisis in the Ukraine on your to-do radar screen, but as
If you use just one document when writing about a public company, use the 10-K – the annual report that publicly traded companies file with
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Find what’s missing In general, 10-K filings are much more consistent across companies and even industries than the more free-form 10-Q. There can be some
Tips and Tricks One big use for the 10-K is context: If you want to put a number in context, you can compare it to
Quite a few experts and organizations have written up quick (and not so quick) guides to using a 10-K. Each has slightly different emphasis —
Bitcoin is getting a lot of attention these days; the digital person-to-person currency system says the value of Bitcoins worldwide surpassed $1.5 billion in August.
With various stock indices posting records recently, and stock strategists forecasting another bull run in 2014, some Americans may be breathing a bit more easily about
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