This year more than ever, the payroll profession, like others, have been challenged to their extremes. They’ve been essential in supporting businesses with their finances, namely making sure the UK workforce gets paid. To acknowledge these efforts and say thank you, we’re highlighting how payroll professionals have made a huge difference over the last few […]
Archives for 2020
The Secret to Long-Lasting and Productive Client Relationships
Recently, I introduced you to Advisable by Fathom, a new and exciting online educational platform. There, I help accountants grow their businesses by offering insights on how to make a successful leap to advisory services. I enjoy the questions I’m asked for this series because the answers are often useful for all kinds of small […]
U.S. considers blacklisting China’s largest chipmaker as tech tensions escalate
Integrated circuits on a circuit board. The semiconductor industry has been in focus during the U.S.-China trade war. filonmar | E+ | Getty Images The Trump administration is considering imposing export restrictions on Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, China’s largest manufacturer of semiconductors, according to a Defense Department spokesperson. The Department of Defense is in discussions over […]
Best Home Renovation Loan in India
Home Renovation Loan – Everyone wants to build a beautiful dream house like Antilia. But, due to a lack of money, it is difficult to build a dream home and renovate it. Renovating home and making it beautiful and comfortable is becoming a necessity today. When you are renovating a home funding is a key […]
Why supporting people is our number one priority.
The Oxford English dictionary defines Support as “to give or be ready to give help to somebody if they need it.” Twenty years ago, when we started First Class Accounts, Support was one of the key pillars we established our business model on. We define Support as being there for our franchisees, every single step […]
Tesla falls after S&P 500 adds Etsy and two others, bypassing carmaker
SpaceX founder Elon Musk looks on at a post-launch news conference after the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifted off on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 2, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters Shares of Tesla dropped more […]
6 ways to recognize and share white privilege in wealth management
White privilege is a concept worth examining for any wealth management professionals who seek to be allies to Black financial advisors. I describe white privilege by painting this picture: If you died and you were reincarnated, would you choose to come back as a Black person? This question often invokes imagined thoughts of life as […]
Weekend Reading for Financial Planners (September 5-6)
Executive Summary Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with a big expose from the Wall Street Journal on the SEC’s new Form CRS, which found that amongst 8,100 firms that had filed Form CRS, 3,100 of them had a legal or disciplinary history they were […]
Charles Schwab, Vanguard, Robinhood outages triggered by Apple, Tesla splits
It was an alarming series of breakdowns that baffled traders: As two of the most popular stocks split at the start of the week, thousands of U.S. retail investors couldn’t use their brokerage accounts. Increased trading precipitated by Apple and Tesla share splits contributed to problems at Robinhood and Charles Schwab when markets opened on […]
Employers added 1.4M jobs in August, but subtracted 1.6K in accounting – Accounting Today
Employment increased by 1.4 million in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, as the unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent from 10.2 percent in July amid signs of economic recovery despite the ongoing COVD-19 pandemic, although the number of accounting and bookkeeping jobs declined last month by 1,600. The BLS reported that […]