How Invoice Automation Can Impact Your Business
As a business owner, there’s no doubt that you are always looking for ways to make your life easier and your business run better. Sometimes a seemingly small change can make a huge difference in how efficient you are, and in your bottom line. Invoice automation can be one of those changes. If you are currently doing your invoices...
What can we learn from the GameStop showdown?
In January 2021 an event took place that had never occurred before, which shook the financial markets to its core. A surge of independent traders flocked to purchase stocks in the formally redundant US gaming firm, GameStop, after having swapped trading tips on social media forums such as Reddit. As a result, it was coined a battle against seemingly...
How Did Tax Reform Change Accelerated Depreciation?
It seems like only yesterday tax reform blotted newspapers and publications with derisive headlines ostentatiously for taking stark positions as a means to engender compromise. Well, those fights have come and gone and now the repercussions of those changes will last for years to come. Now, taxpayers need to understand the new law’s changes and plan their financial situations accordingly. ...
Knowing the Tax Differences Between Active and Passive Income
Earning a steady income is a necessity if you have plans to support yourself and often requires trading your time for money. However, not all income comes in the form of paycheck. Rather, some assets that make money you’ve bought and do not require your active effort to earn it. This latter type of income, called passive income, can hold...
Prescription drug prices rise an average of 5% in 2021
It’s no secret that prescription drugs can be expensive, and even though people need cheaper access to their medications now more than ever, prescription drug prices have raised an average of 5% so far in 2021. Increasing drug prices not only affect what consumers pay out-of-pocket for their medication, but they also drive up other healthcare costs. Let’s take...
Momentum Wi-Fi Video Camera Walmart Won’t Connect Issue
Hey folks, this is an unrelated blog post to what I normally write, just wanted to put this out on the internet to help others who might be having the same problems… If you are trying to connect your new Momentum wi-fi cameras but aren’t having any luck, here are a couple of potential issues you might want to check... Are...
Asian Strangle and Exotic Options Derivatives
An Asian option is also known as the "average value option" and is a unique form of option contract where the payoff is determined by averaging the price over some pre-determined amount of time. Normally, the "European" or "American" option involves a payoff based solely on the the price at the time of exercise. There is a particular type...
Operating Profit Margin
The Operating Profit Margin is a fairly simple calculation meant to provide a business with an understanding of how much profit is earns relative to the cost of operations. Calculating this metric requires simply dividing the operating profit by the total organization revenue. Operating Profit Margin Calculator Profit $ Operations Costs $ Calculate .table-shortcode-inline { background: transparent; border: none; color: #333333; width: 110px; margin: 0; padding: 0; -webkit-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none; text-align: center; font-weight:...
Zero-Spread Volatility
What is the 'Zero-Volatility Spread - Z-spread' The Zero-volatility spread (Z-spread) is the constant spread that makes the price of a security equal to the present value of its cash flows when added to the yield at each point on the spot rate Treasury curve where a cash flow is received. In other words, each cash flow is discounted at...
Payment For Order Flow (PFOF)
Definition The payment that a stockbroker receives from a market maker in exchange for routing its clients' trades to that market maker is called Payment for Order Flow (PFOF). It's been derisively termed a "kickback" by its critics. Payments for order flow are an essential component of today's trading infrastructure, which manages the majority of retail. PFOF is only legal in...