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Practical Tips for Achieving Your Financial Goals

By Gloria Martinez

  • Finance , Tips and Tricks ,
  • 07 Nov

Setting financial goals and practicing discipline to achieve those goals is essential for the future of you and your loved ones. Whether you’re wanting to start a college fund for your child, put more money away for retirement, pay off a chunk of your credit card debt, or save more money in general, you will

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Create a Virtual Environment for Jupyter Notebook

By James Bell

  • Data Science , Programming , Tips and Tricks ,
  • 11 Sep

This article covers how to create a virtual Python environment and run a jupyter notebook inside it. This is a great idea when you have problems installing packages,  or need a test  or isolated dev environment. You can see what breaks when you upgrade libraries and versions in Python before learning it in a live

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Datasets

By James Bell

  • Data Science , Finance , Programming , Skills and Attributes , Tips and Tricks ,
  • 23 Dec

Below are links to a many datasets that you can use for all kinds of analysis including categorical, time series, finance, statistics, machine learning and a lot more, for free. At the end we have SQL databases that you can practice on including a data warehouse. We have a lot of economic and finance professional

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Layers of Abstraction

By James Bell

  • Computer Science , Tips and Tricks ,
  • 30 Dec

You may have come across this term “Layers of Abstraction” when researching about programming and web development. I know I did but I wondered, what does this mean? A great way to explore the unknown in the modern era is to look it up on the internet. There are many Q & A type forums

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Free Payroll Tax Withholding Calculator

By James Bell

  • Accounting , Tips and Tricks ,
  • 01 Dec

Many Accounting Software systems use  built-in tax routines  for calculating payroll tax deductions but are they correct? Depending on what Country you live in, there are different online calculators you can use to double check accuracy. You want to make sure that your system, staff member, or dept is calculating incorrectly right? Unites States Withholding

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How many hours are worked in one year? How to determine hourly rate?

By James Bell

  • Accounting , Tips and Tricks ,
  • 11 Oct

How many hours are worked in a single year? You found the right place if you are trying to determine how many hours an employee works in a year. If an employee get’s paid X amount a year, what is the hourly rate? Well typically you divide the total year salary by 2087. If they

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Get a Free Copy of Your Federal Tax Return 1040

By James Bell

  • Tax updates , Tips and Tricks ,
  • 20 Jun

Did you lose your tax return? Forget to print it or maybe need a digital copy. Maybe you need to fill out financial aid paperwork or apply for a home loan and you need to get a fee copy of your federal tax return fast. Well this is the place! The IRS is here to

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Will my Bonus Pay be Taxed at a Higher Rate?

By James Bell

  • Accounting , Tips and Tricks ,
  • 24 Sep

If you are here you probably receiving a bonus and heard that they tax your Bonus Pay at a higher rate.  Maybe you heard that it is somewhere and while you are excited about receiving some extra cash, the idea of paying higher taxes on it isn’t sitting well.   Let’s clear the air a

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Lighting Affects Productivity

By James Bell

  • Tips and Tricks ,
  • 27 Aug

Ever feel like your office is sucking the life out of you? Well it may be! Lighting affects productivity and we are here to tell you the hows, whys, and what you can do about it. Productivity is everything and being happy is, or should be, important to everyone. If you are lucky enough to

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Check References, Licensing, and More

By James Bell

  • Higher Level Management , Tips and Tricks ,
  • 22 Apr

It would be nice if we lived in a world where we did not have to check references when hiring for a job but with so much on the line, the risk is to high to not check them. Whether you are looking to hire someone to work as an employee, do your taxes, a

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