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Ladies if A Man is More Invested and Concerned About Your Assets....He Is A Liability
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Mo Stegall
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When we look at asset protection from a natural perspective, we realize that in nature, assets are protected not with fences or walls but with internal and external immune systems. So the best way to protect an asset is with systems that self organize and self execute behaviors which function as protective to the asset.
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr. (The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic)
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Your brain can be your most powerful asset. But if not used properly, it can be your most powerful liability.
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Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad's Guide to Investing)
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Your business’ debt is a lenders investment and your business’ liability is a lenders asset.
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr. (Capital Acquisition: Small Business Considerations for How to Get Financing)
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Invest your money in such a way that the assets will generate an inflow of funds before the liabilities demand an outflow.
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Anil Lamba (Romancing The Balance Sheet)
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Even for taxable clients, mutual fund managers supervised the assets in very much the same way, simply ignoring the tax impact and passing the tax liability through to largely unsuspecting fund shareholders.
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John C. Bogle (The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation)
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In fact, wealth-maximizing individuals compare the after-tax costs of debt with the after-tax returns from bonds, liquidating bond positions to pay off loans when the costs of debt exceed the returns from bonds. Rational investors consider liability positions when making asset allocations.
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David F. Swensen (Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment)
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All of you were given two great gifts: your mind and your time. It is up to you to do what you please with both. With each dollar bill that enters your hand, you, and only you, have the power to determine your destiny. Spend it foolishly, and you choose to be poor. Spend it on liabilities, and you join the middle class. Invest it in your mind and learn how to acquire assets, and you will be choosing wealth as your goal and your future. The choice is yours, and only yours. Every day with every dollar, you decide to be rich, poor, or middle class.
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Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad Poor Dad)
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The fragmentation of the neoliberal self begins when the agent is brought face to face with the realization that she is not just an employee or student, but also simultaneously a product to be sold, a walking advertisement, a manager of her résumé, a biographer of her rationales, and an entrepreneur of her possibilities. She has to somehow manage to be simultaneously subject, object, and spectator. She is perforce not learning about who she really is, but rather, provisionally buying the person she must soon become. She is all at once the business, the raw material, the product, the clientele, and the customer of her own life. She is a jumble of assets to be invested, nurtured, managed, and developed; but equally an offsetting inventory of liabilities to be pruned, outsourced, shorted, hedged against, and minimized. She is both headline star and enraptured audience of her own performance.
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Philip Mirowski (Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown)
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To become financially independent, you need to keep your expenses low, limit or eliminate your liabilities, and, accumulate assets or investments that pay you an income. You must keep your expenses low so that you have enough income to acquire assets or investments on a regular basis. The earlier you start, the sooner you will become financially independent
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Robert G. Beard Jr. (The Best Kept Secret to Financial Freedom)
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All of you were given two great gifts: your mind and your time. It is up to you to do what you please with both. With each dollar bill that enters your hand, you, and only you, have the power to determine your destiny. Spend it foolishly, and you choose to be poor. Spend it on liabilities, and you join the middle class. Invest it in your mind and learn how to acquire assets, and you will be choosing wealth as your goal and your future.
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Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!)
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A strong statement of financial position is one that shows relatively little debt and large
amounts of liquid assets relative to the liabilities due in the near future. A strong income statement is one that shows large revenues relative to the expenses required to earn the revenues.
A strong statement of cash flows is one that not only shows a strong cash balance but also
indicates that cash is being generated by operations. Demonstrating that these positive characteristics of the company are ongoing and can be seen in a series of financial statements is particularly helpful in creating confidence in the company on the part of investors and creditors.
Because of the importance of the financial statements, management may take steps that are
specifically intended to improve the company’s financial position and financial performance.
For example, cash purchases of assets may be delayed until the beginning of the next accounting period so that large amounts of cash will be included in the statement of financial position
and the statement of cash flows. On the other hand, if the company is in a particularly strong
cash position, liabilities due in the near future may be paid early, replaced with longer-term
liabilities, or even replaced by additional investments by owners to communicate that future
negative cash flows will not be as great as they might otherwise appear.
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Williams (Financial & Managerial Accounting)
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The principle of limited liability was implied: shareholders stood to lose only their investment in the company and no other assets in the event that it failed.15
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Niall Ferguson (The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition)
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Net Assets means the total assets minus total liabilities. The
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Jigar Patel (NRI Investments and Taxation: A Small Guide for Big Gains)
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1. Don’t work for money; work to create assets that generate money. 2. Know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. Only buy another liability if you first buy or create an asset that generates enough cash to pay for it. 3. Make putting things in your asset column your first priority, before what your employer, government, and bank want. 4. Study accounting, investing, economics, and law. This will allow you to recognize opportunities and methods to successfully build wealth, such as the use of 1031 exchanges and corporate structures. 5. Most people buy packaged investments. The rich create investments by assembling a deal themselves – finding an opportunity, raising money, and organizing people. 6. Take a job only for the skills it will teach you, never for the money it pays you.
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Entrepreneurship Facts (The Real Life RICH DAD & The Lessons He Taught ROBERT KIYOSAKI about Money: (Rich Dad Poor Dad))
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Don’t be satisfied with answers you don’t understand,” kept the Davis funds from buying Enron before it imploded. There’s no need to frame a stock certificate. Simply write the name of your investing mistake and the lesson you learned from it on a Post-It note. By embracing your mistakes instead of burying them, you can transform them from liabilities into assets. Studying your mistakes and keeping them in plain sight will help you avoid repeating them.
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Jason Zweig (Your Money and Your Brain)
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We put all the assets required at about 15 percent of sales. Spontaneous liabilities (meaning accounts payable, accrued wages and taxes, and other non-interest-bearing obligations) finance a third of the assets.* That leaves capital requirements at around 10 percent of sales. With operating margins at 12–13 percent, the pretax return on capital amounts to 120–130 percent. Even if the investments requirements were twice our estimate, the pretax return on capital would be 60 percent or more. Given the steadiness of the revenues, the networks could easily finance their operations with half debt, half equity. The debt would provide a tax shield to keep the after-tax return on equity capital in the stratosphere. TABLE 10.2
Estimated balance
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Bruce C. Greenwald (Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy)
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May we reassure ourselves that being a woman isn’t a liability. It’s an asset. Like any asset, you must invest in it, care for it, recognize its uniqueness, and nurture it forward.
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Maria Shriver (I've been thinking; reflections, prayers, and meditations for a meaningful life)
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The Importance of Bookkeeping Services for Businesses
Effective bookkeeping is the foundation of any successful business. It involves the systematic recording, organizing, and managing of a company’s financial transactions. Whether you're a small business owner or running a large corporation, bookkeeping services help ensure that your financial records are accurate, up-to-date, and compliant with regulations. By outsourcing bookkeeping tasks to professionals, businesses can focus on growth and core operations without worrying about financial details.
What Is Bookkeeping?
Bookkeeping is the process of maintaining accurate records of all financial transactions, including sales, purchases, receipts, and payments. It involves organizing these records into categories like income, expenses, assets, and liabilities. The information generated through bookkeeping is essential for creating financial statements, tax filings, and understanding the overall financial health of the business. However, managing these tasks manually can be time-consuming and prone to errors, which is why many businesses opt for professional bookkeeping services.
Benefits of Professional Bookkeeping Services
One of the key benefits of hiring professional bookkeeping services is the accuracy they bring to financial management. Experienced bookkeepers are well-versed in the latest accounting software and financial regulations, ensuring that all records are kept accurately and consistently. Additionally, outsourcing this task allows business owners to save time and focus on other aspects of their business. As a result, they can make better financial decisions based on reliable data.
Improved Financial Reporting
Accurate bookkeeping leads to better financial reporting, which is critical for making informed business decisions. By keeping detailed and organized records, bookkeepers provide valuable insights into cash flow, profitability, and expenses. This allows businesses to plan their budgets more effectively, track financial performance, and identify areas for cost-saving or investment.
Tax Compliance and Preparation
Another important advantage of bookkeeping services is the ability to stay compliant with tax regulations. Bookkeepers ensure that all financial records are properly maintained and ready for tax season. With accurate and up-to-date records, businesses can avoid penalties and reduce the risk of audits, making tax preparation much smoother.
In conclusion, professional bookkeeping services offer businesses the support they need to manage their financial records accurately and efficiently. By ensuring proper financial reporting and tax compliance, these services contribute to long-term financial stability and growth.
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sddm
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Instead, recognize that investing intelligently is about controlling the controllable. You can’t control whether the stocks or funds you buy will outper-forms the market today, next week, this month, or this year; in the short run, your returns will always be hostage to Mr. Market and his whims. But you can control: your brokerage costs, by trading rarely, patiently, and cheaply your ownership costs, by refusing to buy mutual funds with excessive annual expenses your expectations, by using realism, not fantasy, to forecast your returns7 your risk, by deciding how much of your total assets to put at hazard in the stock market, by diversifying, and by rebalancing your tax bills, by holding stocks for at least one year and, whenever possible, for at least five years, to lower your capital-gains liability and, most of all, your own behavior.
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Benjamin Graham (The Intelligent Investor)
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Jason Kurland, forty-seven, represented them all. In fall 2011, Kurland, then an attorney at the Long Island branch of the firm Rivkin Radler specializing in commercial real estate law, received a phone call that would determine his future. The caller, seeking legal advice, had gotten Kurland’s name from another client. Payment would not be an issue because he and two coworkers had just won a $254 million Powerball jackpot. After taxes on their lump-sum payout, they would have $104 million to share. We stereotype lottery winners as financially unsophisticated. Not these guys. They were a founding partner, senior portfolio manager, and chief investment officer for Belpointe Asset Management, a financial firm in Greenwich, Connecticut, where mansions sprout from spacious lots and single-family homes list for quintuple the national median price. Kurland was no lottery expert, but he quickly made it his business to become one. He researched how different states tax lottery winnings, whether and how big jackpot winners need to be identified (at least eight states let them remain anonymous), and the legal tricks one might use, depending on location, to claim a monster windfall. Claiming in the name of a trust or a limited liability corporation, for instance, won’t reduce the initial tax hit, but it may limit a winner’s public exposure. Some states let you claim using a legal entity and others don’t. Some require press conferences. Some allow an attorney to claim the prize as a trustee. “In that case, the attorney signs the back of the ticket—and you have to make sure you trust that attorney,” Kurland said. (We will come to see the irony in that advice.)
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Michael Mechanic (Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All)
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What makes a Series LLC different is its ability to establish designated “series” or “mini-LLCs” within the original LLC (“parent LLC”). Each series within the parent LLC can have its own specified property, assets, investment objective, or business purpose. The debts, obligations, and liabilities of each series are only enforceable against the assets of that series, not against the assets of the parent LLC or any other series.
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Mark J. Kohler (The Tax and Legal Playbook: Game-Changing Solutions To Your Small Business Questions)
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A Performing Asset is an asset that pays you every month like a business you own or invest in, or a piece of real estate that you can rent out. Wealthy people invest in Performing Assets for cash flow. The rest invest in liabilities for just the opposite. When all of your cash is sunk into a non-Performing Asset such as a mortgage, there is no wealth building. There is only treading water.
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Clayton Morris (How To Pay Off Your Mortgage In Five Years: Slash your mortgage with a proven system the banks don't want you to know about (2019 Edition) (Payoff Your Mortgage Book 2))
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Employers dislike defined benefit plans, because of the large, variable liability associated with a promise to pay remainder-of-lifetime benefits to pensioners and because of the large, variable pool of assets required to fund the liability. Employees dislike defined benefit plans, because the future stream of pension payments lacks definition and immediacy.
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David F. Swensen (Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment)
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Businesses realised that in addition to the reputational risk of investing in greenhouse-intense assets, they faced policy risk from potential impairment of assets in the future by climate-related laws and even liability risk from future class actions.
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Matthew Warren (Blackout: How is Energy-Rich Australia Running Out of Electricity)
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• Loads are sales charges that kick in when you buy (front-end load) or sell (back-end load) open-end mutual fund shares. • Expense ratio refers to ongoing fees for the fund, which range from 0.09 percent to more than 3 percent; lower fees are associated with index funds, higher fees with managed funds. • Minimum investment requirement for open-end funds typically ranges from $500 to $3,000 for the initial investment only. • NAV (net asset value) equals the total current value of all assets held by the fund minus any outstanding liabilities divided by the total number of outstanding shares [(assets – liabilities)/shares].
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Michele Cagan (Real Estate Investing 101: From Finding Properties and Securing Mortgage Terms to REITs and Flipping Houses, an Essential Primer on How to Make Money with Real Estate (Adams 101 Series))
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In a Balance Sheet, Liabilities represent Sources, and Assets represent Uses of funds. There are two principal sources of funds, Owners and Outsiders. Each invests in two ways.
Owners make a direct contribution when they invest their money, and an indirect contribution when they leave behind the profits which they were entitled to take home. Outsiders invest by either lending money (loans) or by lending goods (suppliers’ credit). The resources so raised are deployed in two ways:
towards creation of infrastructure (purchase of fixed assets) and towards working capital.
Working capital has three components, namely inventory, cash and bank balances, and debtors or receivables.
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Anil Lamba (Romancing The Balance Sheet)
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In diversifying blockchain portfolio, there is a common pattern. And that is, what you thought was solid foundation turned into liquid, and what you thought was liquid turned into a solid foundation.
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Olawale Daniel
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I was worth exactly $0 as a baby. I had no assets or liabilities. I didn’t have a dime to my name, but I also didn’t owe anyone anything.
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Jason Fieber (The Dividend Mantra Way: Achieving Financial Independence By Living Below Your Means And Investing In Dividend Growth Stocks)
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A balance sheet is simply a list of your assets, your liabilities, and what each item is currently worth so you can arrive at your net worth. Your net worth is total assets minus total liabilities.
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Paul Mladjenovic (Stock Investing for Dummies)
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If your company has any credible strategy for providing equity-based returns with muted volatility, you have not just a value proposition, but one of the most important value propositions of our time.... What's the concept in an operating real estate REIT? Operating real estate (as distinct from net leases or mortgages, which are other financing concepts) has the potential to produce equity-like long-term returns, but isan extremely powerful diversifier, in that real estate correlates positively with inflation while stocks and bonds correlate negatively with it. Inflation, with it attendant higher interest rates, chokes off new supply of real estate: new expensive to build, to expensive to finance at prevailing market rents. When new supply dwindles, normal growth absorbs the available space and puts upward pressure on rents, increasing cash flows to the owners... until rents get to a point where new construction pencils out again. (Meanwhile, in an inflation/interest rate flareup of any consequence, stocks and bonds are usually getting hit, and sometimes hit hard.) This, to me, is a trifecta of a conceptual value proposition: (a) the potential for the equity-like long-term returns investors need, (b) historically correlated positively with inflation, unlike all financial assets, and (c) just when you think this story can't get better, with 90% of available income paid out currently to income-starved investors.... What's the concept for variable life insurance? It's certainly the least expensive long-term form of life insurance, in that, as the investment portion grows, it extinguishes the insurance company's exposure. (As Ben Baldwin gnomically and brilliantly observes, 'All insurance is term insurance.') It may also be, in a given situation, the cheapest way of funding an estate tax liability, leaving the maximum legacy to one's heirs. And, of course, if the ownership is vested in an insurance trust, one may (under current law at this writing) be bequeathing wealth without income or estate taxation. As long as there is an estate tax - any estate tax - there will be a financial planning issue in the life of every affluent household/family: how do you want the heirs to pay it? And it seems likely that, conceptually, VUL will always be an answer.... Small cap equities? The concept is, clearly, higher returns with - and precisely because of - their higher volatility.
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Nick Murray (The Value Added Wholesaler in the Twenty-First Century)
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From a portfolio perspective, liabilities act like negative assets. In other words, borrowing by an individual offsets lending (ownership of bond or money-market funds) by that individual.
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David F. Swensen (Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment)
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This obsession with measuring and optimizing productivity is not new. In the thirteenth century, Venetian merchants carefully calculated the difference between the costs of the sailing voyages they underwrote and the revenues they ultimately earned from the goods sold, one of the first iterations of the Return on Investment calculation (ROI). This practice gave birth to the double bill accounting system and the “Equity - Assets = Liability” equation that’s still used today to determine the profitability of a business.
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Rahaf Harfoush (Hustle and Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work)
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As a teacher, I recognized that it was excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius. It broke my heart to see students know the answers, yet lack the courage to act on the answer.” “Old ideas are some people’s biggest liability. It is a liability simply because they fail to realize that while that idea or way of doing something was an asset yesterday, yesterday is gone.” “Rich people are often creative and take calculated risks.” “Why would you want to increase your financial intelligence? Because you want to be the kind of person who creates your own luck.” “The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth seemingly instantaneously. An untrained mind can also create extreme poverty that can crush a family for generations.” “If the opportunity is too complex and I do not understand the investment, I don’t do it. Simple math and common sense are all you need to do well financially.” “The problem with ‘secure’ investments is that they are often sanitized, that is, made so safe that the gains are less.” “It is not gambling if you know what you’re doing. It is gambling if you’re just throwing money into a deal and praying.” “Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.
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Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!)