Tuesday, 12 March 2013 00:00

Written by Cary Yates

For business owners, time is money. With all their energies focused on making their businesses successful, business owners often decide to begin with “the basics” for their financial accounts and choose products that mirror the personal financial accounts that they already know how to manage. Yet to be successful, there are several financial choices business owners should consider to meet the unique needs of their businesses:

Tuesday, 12 March 2013 00:00

Written by Cary Yates

Single individuals without children make up one of the fastest-growing segments of society today. In fact, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that for the first time in the nation’s history, there are now more people living alone in single-person households than there are traditional families of a husband, wife and one child.

According to the latest U.S. census, as of the year 2000 there were approximately 27.2 million single-person households versus about 16.6 million three-person family households. And the percentage of single-person U.S. households — now at 26 percent — has been steadily increasing for at least three decades.