Computers, office chairs and factories all wear down and lose value over time. Depreciation is how accountants factor that fact into their number-crunching. A depreciated five-year-old computer isn't ...

Employing workers in your small business costs more than just the hourly wages or salaries you pay them. You incur additional costs, such as taxes, benefits and supplies, which increase your actual ...

John Parker is a business writer with 20+ years of experience as a business executive specializing in accounting and finance. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society ...

Determining how much money you need to buy a house has always been daunting for first-time homebuyers, and it doesn’t seem to ...

Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them. Penny ...

Financial Management for Multi-Truck Fleets wasn’t about spreadsheets and theory. It was about what actually happens when your business outgrows your personal bank account. And if you’re pushing past ...

Mortgage Research Center. The 15-year, fixed-rate refinance mortgage average rate is 5.38%. For 20-year mortgage refinances, ...

Rachel Witkowski is an award-winning journalist whose 20-year career spans a wide range of topics in finance, government regulation and congressional reporting. Ms. Witkowski has spent the last decade ...

Micro-retirements can be tempting, but for younger homeowners, they may create more financial strain than they’re worth.

Bluevine reports that business owners should maintain cash reserves based on factors like operating expenses and growth plans ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...