Complex Financing

— TUESDAY

Primerica to offer business advice

Primerica will host the free seminar, “The Business Opportunity of the 21st Century,” at 7 p.m. at the ValueBank Tower, 3649 Leopard St., Suite 512.

For reservations, call Mark Oser & Associates at 883-7217 or 883-9365.

Event offers advice about networking

Corpus Christi Chapter of American Society for Training and Development will offer networking nuggets.

The workshop is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room 119, at Del Mar College’s Center for Economic Development, 3209 S. Staples St. Cost: $15; $10/members. Lunch will be provided. Reservations should be made by Monday.

To register, email astdcc@gmail.com or call Linda Houts at 949-4714 or email lkouts@earthlink.net

WEDNESDAY

Cable officials will speak at luncheon

Community Associations Institute meets for lunch at 11:45 a.m. at Silv

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A part of an online presence for any business is maintaining awareness of your own popularity. Are you influencing the people who follow you or does your business need a new look?

Business Standard recently reported about a system that a search engine marketing firm has created to help determine Internet influence.

Wondering just how influential you are in the online world? Log on to sites like PeerIndex and Klout to find out.

These sites use algorithms to measure overall online influence, using data from popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin.

This month, an Indian search engine marketing firm, Pinstorm, generated a list of a few hundred people or brands of Indian origin on Twitter, added their Klout and PeerIndex scores and, after securing the approval of the users, published an average of the two scores on its site. “It’s a work in progress. The

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Do you have much debt? The problem with debt is that it is so easy to rack up, not only can you get thousands of dollars in debt in just a couple hours but it will take years if not decades to pay off. Most people spend an average of 2 years to pay off a $1000 credit card purchase. Do yourself a favor and stop making getting into more and more debt, it is time to pay it all off.

The first thing you need to do in order to pay off your debt is to simply add up all the debts that you have and then put them in order from smallest to largest. The reason why you want to put the amounts from smallest to largest is because then you will easily be able to attack the smallest amount and start to take bites out of your debt amount. What you need to understand is that the reason you start with the smallest amount first is because you will stick with the payoff strategy longer if you see it is actually going somewhere.

The next thing you need to do is start using a debt payoff technique called the snowball effect. Read more…

The specialty of cost method of accounting for investments is that, it gives us an idea of how much money is actually being invested, how much money is being earned as a return, and also the exact return over investment. This approach of accounting can be adopted for almost any kind of investment, such as mutual funds, investment into gold and silver, etc. Cost method of accounting is also used in the corporate and business world, in order to maintain records and accounts for the following:

• Investments into a partnership firm.
• Investment into subsidies companies and business
• Investments into specific contracts and agreements of a business and there off.

The actual computation and cost accounting for the aforementioned 3 cases is pretty difficult and involves some complex accounting calculations. Read more…

— Houston-based CPL Retail Energy has installed a new prepaid electricity plan, which helps customers save money and monitor their electricity usage.

As part of the plan, users can get daily text messages or emails notifying them of their electricity use and their account balance.

The plan is designed for the budget-conscious consumers, company vice president and general manager Jim Steffes said.

“Summertime doesn’t have to mean higher electricity bills,” Steffes said in a news release. “Prepaid service allows customers to choose when they pay, how they pay and what they pay.”

The plan does not require a credit check or a deposit.

For more information, visit www.cplretailenergy.com/prepaid.