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4 Critical Tips for Aspiring Professionals

Tom Spencer

This can range from health to career/finance to how you organize your living space. The next part is to work backwards, work out what steps are required in order to meet these goals. Break it down as much as possible and set six-month, one-year, and three-year objectives to ensure you meet your final objectives in five years.

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Self-Employed? Prep for Tax Season to Save Big

Successful Independent Consulting

Standard business-owner tax deductions include deducting your home office and a portion of your utilities; parking, tolls, and mileage to and from business meetings; books and subscriptions; office supplies, shipping, and postage; retirement contributions, and probably even health insurance premiums on your personal tax return.

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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

Located on Broadway in Morningside Heights, it’s no surprise that Columbia is well known for its excellence in finance and relationships with movers and shakers on Wall Street. Since 1881, Wharton has built itself a reputation as an innovative graduate management program with a specialty in finance. Median signing bonus: $25,000.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

Consultants get to travel quite a lot and meet different kinds of people and this makes them diverse and enables them to have insights, which others can only strive for. When I started out in the program, I quickly realized I was never cut out for finance or accounting. This left me with few options. Be careful here.

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Virtual and Augmented Reality Will Reshape Retail

Harvard Business

By comparison, AR overlays virtual elements onto the real world as seen through a smartphone or tablet. Doing so will keep you nimble at meeting consumer needs with a still-developing technology. But investment in the sector is hot, with AR and VR startups raising $658 million in equity financing last year.

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10-Year Treasury Yield Up 100 Basis Points Since May

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. This as an apples to apples comparison illustrates that FHA rates have increased 1.75% in 7 weeks. Most of this pain has occurred since the FOMC meeting last Wednesday, and I am sure the talking heads at CNBC have no idea how much interest rates have spiked.

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Ukraine Hyperinflation; Currency Plunges 44% in One Week! Actual Black Market Rates; Poroshenko Gives "Ultimatum" to Central Bank to Fix Exchange Rate

MishTalk

In response to Ukrainian Currency Comparison: Budget Rate vs. Official Rate vs. Interbank Rate vs. Street Rate reader Oleg Writes. There''s more to the black exchange rate than meets the eye in Ukraine. You see an exchange rate you like, make a call to the posted phone number, meet and do a deal. Hello Mish! hryvnia per dollar.

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