I’d like my software to be able to pull bank account transaction information (obviously securely) into a budgeting database. Its possible that customers will come from many different banks. What is the best way to go about doing this?

Web Services. You must make some arrangements with the banking company for details on their exposed web services to get the bank transactions of specific users.

Once you get the specific web services, you can just call these on your application.

This video has the details on getting your federal tax refund in a matter of days rather than waiting several weeks.

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The Earned Income Tax credit can mean a bigger refund for qualified taxpayers – watch this video for all the details.

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The first step in beginning financial security is creating a personal budget. In order to plan a personal budget you have to know how much you possess and how much you owe. On the asset side of your life how much money do you have in your wallet? How much savings do you have in the bank? Do you own your own home or do you rent or do you have a mortgage on it? Do you own your car or do you have a loan on it?

These are all the initial items for consideration for building a personal budget. On the liability side you need to list the monthly car payment, the monthly rent or mortgage payment, utilities, charge accounts or credit card payments and other maintenance and upkeep expenses. You finished your basic homework now let’s create a monthly personal budget.

A personal monthly budget is used to estimate what you earn and what you pay. It gives you an alert if you can plan in advance what each month you will earn in salary, dividend earnings and it will allow you to determine how much you will owe.

This is how I would set one up.

At the top of the list place the following categories on the left side of the sheet, projected monthly income, actual monthly income and on the right side place the categories, projected balance, actual balance, and difference, these will be handled after you total your debts. Under projected monthly income list the following subcategories, income1, extra income, and total monthly income.

Under the major category of actual monthly income list the following subcategories income1, extra income, and total monthly income. Beneath this header place the following categories, housing, transportation, insurance, food, entertainment, loans, taxes, savings or investments, gifts and donations and legal. Each of these categories will have projected cost, actual cost and difference columns added to each row within these major expense divisions. Each beginning of the month you must predict the next month’s expenses, during the month as you pay those expenses enter that amount into the actual cost column. The end of the month you should enter the difference between the projected and actual cost into the difference column.

You remember those categories on the right side, projected balance, actual monthly income and difference? They are calculated by subtracting the total expenses from each balance. The difference is obtained from subtracting the actual from the projected. At the bottom the totals of the projected costs, actual costs and difference of the two are given. The maintenance of the personal budget as well as the decipherment of the spending trends should provide you with an invaluable tool to speed you towards financial success.

A personal budget set up in this manner can simplify the process of setting a certain amount of ones’ salary or profits into a savings plan which is composed of simple interest savings, mutual fund investments for your retirement and a long range acquisition plan for real estate investment.

Joseph Kenny
http://www.articlesbase.com/non-fiction-articles/create-a-savings-plan-for-financial-freedom-52369.html

These tax saving tips will save everyone considerable money on their taxes for 2008-2009. This is part (5) of a (7) part series.

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This video talks about short selling. There are many who want to blame short selling for the collapse in 2008. This videos discusses that if anything it is the opposite. There are resources at the bottom of the article.

Gordon Brown & Henry Paulson are blaming speculators ( scapegoats ) for the economic crash, the ban on short selling does not stop the fall of bank stocks because investors are dumping their own bank stocks, the current free market capitalist system is not “free” but rigged by those in power ( deregulations ), martial law, hyperinflation, the collapse of the financial systems looks like a controlled demolition, the “paulson plan” 700 billion bailout is a financial power grab similar to the patriot act, the unregulated banking system of derivatives is called the shadow banking system, recorded on September 27th 2008
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the whole audio is at . . .

http://karmabanqueradio.com/2008/09/27/975-the-truth-about-markets-27-september-2008/

Resources:

Inestopedia: What Is Short Selling?

Wikipedia: Short (finance) Stock Market
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This video talks about one of the beginning steps to getting your financial house in order, budgeting! He then talks about getting debts paid down or completely paid off.

Free Retirement Plan Financial Planning Best Ways To Reduce Debt

Many people do not know where to start when it comes to paying off debt. This video discusses how to get the process started to being debt free.
The best way to pay off debt is to create a budget so that it’s clear how long it will take to pay off the debt. Learn about restructuring rates on money that is owed to others with help from a financial services specialist in this free video on paying off debts.

Expert: William Rae
Contact: www.hbwfl.com
Bio: William Rae has been licensed in the insurance and financial fields for over 30 years.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz

Duration : 0:3:0

Resources:

Federal Trade Commission: Facts For Consumers

Motley Fool: 9 Ways To Pay Off Debt

Forex trading has become increasingly attractive to many people in recent years. The attraction of potentially higher returns has people looking at forex trading. This video is from a company that offers this service. You should make sure and consult with a professional prior to using any Forex trading strategies.

Free Retirement Plan Forex Trading Robot

Forex trading, also known as FX trading, is trading that is done in the foreign exchange market. This is a form of trading that is used to exchange internationl currencies. Buyers and sellers operate around the clock, other than weekends, in this market.  This is a very volatile market that holds the possibility of high returns but also big losses.

Something called a Forex Trading Robot has become popular recently. This is a program that executes trades based on a series of inputs or signals. This has the advantage of being able to operate 24 / 7 but has the disadvantage of the elimination of the psychological element of trading which can sometimes be a problem.

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Duration : 4 min 26 sec

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Resources:

Wikipedia: Foreign Exchange Market

Investopedia:What Is Forex Trading

Our company is expert in providing solutions for a particular domain. You are appointed as a project manager for a new project. You have to do Risk management. What will be your approach?

It’s important to understand that risk management is an integral part of project management. The basic approach is:
1. Identify Risk
2. Priortizie Risk
3. Handle Risk
4. Monitor Risk

It’s always good to have a database to help you do these steps. In a little more detail, I’ll explain the steps. Just want to point out that this is large topic so I’m just pointing out a very basic approach.

1. It depends on the level on which you are identifying risks but mainly, you are looking for things that affect cost, schedule, or quality. Again, that is very basic.

2. To prioritize, you would then rate the risk using the tried and true Risk Matrix which compares the likelihood of an event happening to the impact it would have if it happened. (Probability vs Consequence). Using the rating, you would then know which Risks were high, medium, and low.

3. After you have your Risks in order of priority, you then determine how you will handle them. The basic methods for handling are transfer, accept, avoid, and mitigate.

Here is an example explaining each. A requirement from your customer in your project requires an item to be shipped through a dangerous area. The risk is the item gets stolen. You can transfer the risk to someone else by hiring a company to do it for you. You can accept the risk by saying it might happen but the risk is low enough we aren’t going to do anything and just ship it. You can avoid the risk by removing the requirement from the project. And you can mitigate the risk by shipping it with a convoy of armed guards.

4. Then after you execute your handling strategies, you have to monitor those risks to see if they become problems or the risk rating changes.

It’s important to point out that risks are NOT problems or issues. They are potential problems. Once the probability of it happening becomes 100% or the event already occurs, it is no longer a risk and it is now a problem. Some people confuse risk and problems and track them together.