Moore Bookkeeping

Social Security Statements are reports the IRS used to mail out every year to let you know how much money you made (and what funds you will have available come retirement age, presumably.) Apparently, they don’t mail them anymore. I didn’t always get mine (wayward mail, perhaps), so I hadn’t noticed until I read this article.

Perhaps the IRS is saving some money this way…Now I can go online and see it anytime now. Smart.

Online Social Security statement – Cool Sites from The Kim Komando Radio Show® & Web site.

How easy is it to procrastinate the things we don’t like doing–say, dealing with our finances for example? Very. But there are costs associated with putting these things off. Sometimes it’s better to jump in, feet first, and get started.

Contact Moore Bookkeeping today to see if we can’t help you get a quick, strong hold on it all!

5 Costs Of Financial Procrastination.

The U.S. economy will grow 2%-2.3% in 2012. Despite a slowdown from the 3% pace of growth in the final months of last year, the economy will better its lackluster 2011 performance of 1.7%. Although growth started and ended last year relatively strong, it faded badly in the middle. We expect the tempo this year to pick up in the second half of 2012 and stay up through year-end. Still, growth will run shy of the pace needed to significantly lower the unemployment rate.

Consumers are finally opening their wallets after four years of saving more in an effort to restore wealth lost in the housing crash and the 2008 stock market drop. Now, even those with sizable debt are willing to borrow more or dip into savings to buy essentials, including big-ticket items such as cars. But higher energy prices, due mostly to heightened tensions with Iran, will keep consumer spending from rebounding dramatically. It will end 2012 only slightly higher than in 2011.

via Economic Outlook, Indicators, Forecasts – Your Business.

How many people do you trust with your money? If you’re like me, the answer is “very few.”

And not just trust people with our money—trust them in general? Not a whole lot of people in that group either, is there? So, why is it hard for us to trust? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.

Who do I really trust?

I trust the people I know, the people I met long before I needed anything from them or they needed anything from me. I learned to trust them when I determined they were trustworthy.

The one thing I can tell you about the bookkeeping life is I do most of my work ALONE. I sit in a room, adding numbers by myself. Hard to meet and get to know people enough to trust them and have them trust me when I never leave the house…

So, ladies and gentlemen, today’s lesson is this: we’ve gotta get out of the house sometimes! Conferences and clubs and groups…we have to meet people. We can help them, and ultimately, they may be able to help us.

Once they get to know us, they’ll love us, right? And we’ll learn to trust them. Win-win.

Two of the newest groups I’ve joined are below. For more information on joining the following organizations, click on the links:

Bedford Chamber of Commerce

Smith Mountain Lake Chamber of Commerce