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7 Apps to Teach Kids About Money

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Budgeting and building credit are only the beginning—you also have student loans, mortgage rates and maybe even cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). A 2017 study found that disparities in financial literacy may account for as much as 40 percent of the wealth gap between those retiring with more and those retiring with less.

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Business finance: The ultimate guide for non-finance people

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In particular, traditional business financing options like bank loans have been declining since 2020 — where they fell 6% from 2019 (43% to 37%, respectively). A fiscal year simply represents the 12-month period that a business uses for its accounting, taxes, and budgeting purposes. Why is that? What is a ROB? What’s that?

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How to use part time and temp jobs to build your career

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It used to be that most people looked for that One Job, the one where they would stay for a number of years, the company where they would work their way up the career ladder and retire after a respectable amount of time. While this is still a reality for some people, for many, it’s becoming increasingly unrealistic.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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With an estimated $108 billion annual budget across California schools, Davenport’s work as a steward for public education is significant. Her and her husband Julien founded the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement in 2017 and started sharing all of the exciting things they were learning about money. “It

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16 Timeless Truths of Financial Freedom

Success

When Jim came into my office at age 52 to see about retiring early, I was surprised. I fully expected to inform Jim and Sue they couldn’t retire early only to discover they were multimillionaires. Don’t Budget. This article appears in the January/February 2020 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated.