Smart stops on the Web.PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against SITES Spend Time to Save Money financialplan.about.com Financial planners Financial Planner A qualified investment professional who assists individuals and corporations meet their long-term financial objectives by analyzing the client's status and setting a program to achieve these goals. , CPAS CPAS Corrective and Preventative Action System CPAS Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (Australia) CPAS National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (Australian National University, Canberra) and their clients will want to visit this Web site for money-saving tips on, for example, college, divorce, real estate and retirement. Visitors also can access financial advice for people in their 50s and 60s and read articles such as the "Best Investments for Retirement Funds" and "Financial Planning Throughout Your Life." It Brings Good Things to "Light" www.financiallearning.com General Electric developed this Web site to "promote financial literacy Financial literacy is the ability of individuals to make appropriate decisions in managing their personal finances. Raising levels of financial literacy is now a focus of government programmes in countries including[1] Australia, Japan, the United States and the UK. ." With online calculators, a dictionary and research studies, the GE Center for Financial Learning offers a variety of information for personal-financial-planning specialists and CPAs. A Federal HR Agency www.opm.gov Accountants and other finance professionals in government service will find retirement planning Retirement financial planning refers to a collection of systems, methods, and processes which, in their aggregate, support a family unit's (client's) desire to achieve a state of financial independence, such that the need to be gainfully employed is optional. information at the Office of Personnel Management Web stop, including federal benefits data and retirement calculators. Retirees and their families can find information on employee group-life-insurance programs and links to government-sponsored retirement programs. SITES FOR THE SOLE PRACTITIONER For Businesses on the Grow www.morebusiness.com CPAs and business consultants can find resources here to aid their small-business-owner clientele, such as financial planning and health insurance checklists, and templates for contracts and business and marketing plans. Users also can download free legal forms, read articles including "Disaster Recovery Planning" and register for Morebusiness.com's e-mail newsletter. Big Ideas for Small Businesses www.sbsc.org The Small Business Survival Committee (SBSC) Web site offers business advisers analysis of current issues and legislative action affecting small businesses in the areas of the economy, health care and tax laws, to name a few. This Smart Stop also allows visitors free access to congressional testimony and the SBSC's fact-of-the-week section. Know the Score www.score.org Want to know eight easy things to do before forming a company? Or need to find out how to launch a successful e-mail promotion? Find how-to articles on these topics at the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) Web site and read features such as "How Automation Accounting Can Help Your Business." SCORE also offers free advice from business professionals in its e-mail-counseling-services section and a free newsletter subscription. GENERAL INTEREST SITES Free for All www.allbookkeepingresource.com Unlike other employment Web sites that allow employees to post resumes for free while employers pay to advertise, this one lets everyone find what they need--a job or an employee--gratis. Although this Web stop calls itself All Bookkeeping bookkeeping, maintenance of systematic and convenient records of money transactions in order to show the condition of a business enterprise. The essential purpose of bookkeeping is to reveal the amounts and sources of the losses and profits for any given period. Resource, its focus also encompasses basic accounting, accounts payable and financial planning. Users can read accounting and business articles such as "What Payment Terms Should You Use Internationally" and "Like It or Not, E-Billing's Coming." 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