Spend Time to Save Money
financialplan.about.com
Financial planners, CPAs and their clients
will want to visit this Web site for money-saving
tips on, for example, college, divorce, real
estate and retirement. Visitors also can access
financial advice for people in their 50s and 60s
and read articles such as the “Best Investments
for Retirement Funds” and “Financial Planning
Throughout Your Life.”
It Brings Good Things to “Light”
www.financiallearning.com
General Electric developed this Web site to
“promote financial literacy.” With online
calculators, a dictionary and research studies,
the GE Center for Financial Learning offers a
variety of information for personal-financial-
planning specialists and CPAs.
A Federal HR Agency
www.opm.gov
Accountants and other finance
professionals in government service will find
retirement planning information at the Office of
Personnel Management Web stop, including federal
benefits data and retirement calculators. Retirees
and their families can find information on
employee group-life-insurance programs and links
to government-sponsored retirement programs.
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For Businesses on the Grow
www.morebusiness.com
CPAs and business consultants can
find resources here to aid their
small-business-owner clientele, such as financial
planning and health insurance checklists, and
templates for contracts and business and marketing
plans. Users also can download free legal forms,
read articles including “Disaster Recovery
Planning” and register for Morebusiness.com’s
e-mail newsletter.
Big Ideas for Small Businesses
www.sbsc.org
The Small Business Survival
Committee (SBSC) Web site offers business advisers
analysis of current issues and legislative action
affecting small businesses in the areas of the
economy, health care and tax laws, to name a few.
This Smart Stop also allows visitors free access
to congressional testimony and the SBSC’s
fact-of-the-week section.
Know the Score
www.score.org
Want to know eight easy things to
do before forming a company? Or need to find out
how to launch a successful e-mail promotion? Find
how-to articles on these topics at the Service
Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) Web site and
read features such as “How Automation Accounting
Can Help Your Business.” SCORE also offers free
advice from business professionals in its
e-mail-counseling-services section and a free
newsletter subscription.
Free for All
www.allbookkeepingresource.com
Unlike other employment Web sites
that allow employees to post resumes for free
while employers pay to advertise, this one lets
everyone find what they need—a job or an
employee—gratis. Although this Web stop calls
itself All Bookkeeping Resource, its focus also
encompasses basic accounting, accounts payable and
financial planning. Users can read accounting and
business articles such as “What Payment Terms
Should You Use Internationally” and “Like It or
Not, E-Billing’s Coming.”
The Star System
www.bauerfinancial.com
This Coral Gables, Florida,
research company Web stop states: “We analyze
banks…very carefully.” Its star-based system—five
stars rate an organization “superior” and one
brands an entity as “troubled”—includes categories
such as top consumer and institutional
certificate-of-deposit rates. Other site offerings
include a frequently asked questions section and
links to federal regulator home pages, such as the
FDIC’s and the Federal Reserve Board’s.
To Market, to Market, to Buy a Bond
www.investinginbonds.com
This Bond Market Association
e-stop gives users corporate and municipal bond
prices and features article titles such as
“Planning for Retirement” and “How to Read Bond
Prices in the Daily Newspapers.” Visitors also can
find a bond glossary, investor guides and links to
related financial Web sites.
On the Lighter Side
www.m-w.com
Professionals as interested in
words as numbers can click around Merriam-Webster
Online and find brainteasers in the
word-game-of-the-day section. Users also can
peruse the section Words From the Lighter Side,
which examines the 20th century’s most popular
slang terms.
Get Hired, Not Taken
www.sohojobs.com
If you’re looking for small
office/home office (SOHO) work but are wary of ads
attached to utility poles, buses or trains, check
out this Web site’s Scram Scams section. It
provides descriptions of con artists’ modus
operandi and a free list—via e-mail—of known
schemes. This Smart Stop also offers users reviews
of other work-at-home Web sites and links to free
SOHO magazines and newsletters. |