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Online Accounting Degrees: Valuable Asset or Waste of Money?

Accounting and finance degrees are in high demand. You can’t argue with that. Just last year, CNN Money listed accounting as one of the top 5 hottest careers.
College graduates with an accounting degree but not yet a CPA designation might make between $35,000 and $45,000 a year, or up to $50,000 in large […]

The New Kiddie Tax Continues to Punish Parents

I’ve spoken about the Kiddie Tax before and how it was initially established to help prevent wealthier parents from “stashing” cash and assets in the names of their kids so that they could avoid higher tax brackets.
However Congress, hoping to raise an estimated $1.4 billion in the next decade, has boosted the age […]

Parent’s Guide to Financial Aid

Parents are natural worriers. There is some sort of chemical change that happens as soon as your first child is born that transforms your brain so that it is constantly worrying about something. And for me I’m usually worrying about money. Even though my girls are only two I’ve already begun to […]

Teach Your Kids About Money… Using Comic Books

As you may know I’m a big supporter of teaching children about money and how to manage it as early as possible. And in my quest to find new and innovative ways of teaching financial concepts to kids I came across a link to the Federal Reserve System via Lifehacker.com.
Within the Federal […]