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Repair Regulations: Limiting Business Deductions

Women in Consulting

For years, we have used the Generally Accepted Accounting Principle of expensing items that small businesses purchase of up to $500 or even $1000 when appropriate. . The rule is limiting businesses to expense a purchase which is $200 or less and consumed within a year. This is not going to happen to most small businesses.).

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

Even if you don’t need to know a lot about finance to do your day-to-day job, the more conversant you are on the subject, the better off you’ll be, according to Richard Ruback, a professor at Harvard Business School and the coauthor of the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business. Related Video. Play with numbers.

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Banks – Industry Overview

Tom Spencer

Historically, commercial banking and investment banking functions have been separated by law – these restrictions have since been repealed and larger banks tend to take on capital markets operations due to the complimentary nature of the businesses. In secondary markets, the sales & trading function operates as a market maker.

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