Members of media gather at the Diamond Princess cruise ship, operated by Carnival Corp., docked in Yokohama, Japan, on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. Toru Hanai | Bloomberg Getty Images Japanese health officials are allowing the most vulnerable guests quarantined on the Diamond Princess docked just off of Yokohama to leave the cruise ship and complete […]
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Balance Your Own Books With Help From These Courses
Take the hassle out of tax season, budgeting, and financial management. February 13, 2020 2 min read Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. It’s […]
Off the ‘QT’: Does Fed nominee Judy Shelton have a balance sheet problem?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As an outside critic of the Federal Reserve, conservative economist Judy Shelton has slammed the central bank’s massive $4.2 trillion balance sheet as distorting financial markets and “largely benefiting people who have hefty stock-market portfolios.” It is also an entrenched part of how the Fed manages interest rates, and has been endorsed […]
Which Financial Statement Is Prepared First?
Your business’s financial statements give you a snapshot of the financial health of your company. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to monitor your revenue, project your future finances, or keep your business on track for success. Now, you can’t go off creating your different financial statements all willy nilly. Like many things in business, […]
Android co-founder Andy Rubin’s startup shuts down
Essential Products, a consumer electronics startup founded by the former Google executive Andy Rubin, said on Wednesday that it was ceasing operations. Once considered one of Silicon Valley’s most promising hardware technology startups, Essential had raised $330 million in outside funding because of the track record of Rubin, who is widely credited with creating Google’s […]
Doesn’t look, feel, smell right when etailer makes Rs 6K cr loss on Rs 5K turnover: Piyush Goyal
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday asked e-commerce players to strictly adhere to FDI norms, saying it “certainly does not look and feel and smell right” when a company makes a loss of Rs 6,000 crore on a turnover of Rs 5,000 crore. Goyal, who had earlier remarked that e-commerce giant Amazon was […]
400M social media users are set to lose their anonymity in India
By Saritha RaiFacebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok will have to reveal users’ identities if Indian government agencies ask them to, according to the country’s controversial new rules for social media companies and messaging apps expected to be published later this month. The requirement comes as governments around the world are trying to hold social media […]
Shock as Sajid Javid quits as Chancellor
Chancellor Sajid Javid has quit just four weeks before he was due to deliver the first post-Election Budget on 11 March. It is believed his role will be taken by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak but this has yet to be confirmed. Mr Javid, who had been Chancellor since last July, is believed […]
Kitces & Carl Ep 27: Handling The ‘Required Minimum’ Conversation Without Being Awkward
Executive Summary Many financial advisors have asset minimums to ensure that they generate enough revenue from each client to be compensated appropriately for the value they provide (and the business cost to deliver it). But when it comes to having conversations about net worth with prospective clients to find out if they qualify for those […]
Now, FabHotels sees a flurry of hotel checkouts
A story eerily similar to Oyo and its hoteliers seems to be playing out at FabHotels, with hotel owners and industry associations accusing the Gurgaon-based hotel aggregator of arbitrary termination of contracts, non-payment of dues and stoppage of minimum guarantee amounts. FabHotels has denied these allegations even as some hotel owners have filed cases against […]