Sentences with phrase «accounts of a few of»

In 2014, she undertook a project to study the social media accounts of a few of her «superfans,» learning what they liked, who they were friends with, where they worked and other personal details.

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While it may take time for most traditional institutions to fully account for the benefits of the blockchain, only few can sit on the sidelines, as this technology can positively change how we do payment and online transactions.

Credit scores take a few different major factors into account and weigh them according to how big of an impact they have on your ability to repay debt.

Neither existed in Germany or the Netherlands just a few years ago, but they now account for 17 per cent and 32 per cent of their respective markets, the analysis firm says.

Even more impressive, companies with fewer than 20 workers account for 90 percent of all U.S. companies.

There are even more abstruse explanations, for example, that computer equipment accounts for a growing portion of capital investment but has become less expensive over time, meaning fewer dollars spent.

The math is compelling: a few extra years of work can boost your retirement income far more when you take risk into account.

An analysis of the leaked information found very few accounts belonged to women and that many of those accounts were probably fake, meaning Ashley Madison is essentially a service for men to launch grammatically incorrect pick - up lines and photos of their genitalia into the digital ether, never to be viewed or acknowledged.

Because a few extra years of work will boost your retirement income more than higher investment returns will, once you take the risk into account.

About 98 percent of the more than 300,000 U.S. exporting firms are small, and they account for over a third of the $ 1.4 trillion in annual total export dollars in 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which defines a small business as having fewer than 500 employees.

Currently, corporate accounts make up just 3 % of the company's revenue, but Pierson thinks it can rise to 50 % in the next few years.

«Most dealers don't consider the sale final until the money is in their account, and that could be anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days,» said Chris Kulka, senior vice president at the Center For Responsible Lending.

«More cards are charging a monthly fee, like a checking account, and fewer have a la carte fees for services like point - of - sale purchases, ATM transactions and live customer service calls,» said Susan Weinstock, director of Pew's Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project.

While it's in a few large chains such as Bed Bath & Beyond, independent retailers account for 80 percent of sales.

Specifically, Utzke explains he ran a computer analysis against the IRS's repository of hundreds of millions of tax records, and found fewer than a thousand people filed a Form 8949 to account for a «property description likely related to bitcoin.»

Here's a simple test: If someone sat down with you and asked you a series of questions about your company's revenue, expenses, and profits (or losses) for the previous month, quarter, and year, could you answer within a few minutes, using your accounting software?

Porter tells potential clients that he focuses on not guessing the market by buying index funds that buy broad swaths of the market; keeping costs as low as possible, such as fewer transaction costs and not paying analyst fees; and focusing on tax efficiency, by relocating assets from tax - inefficient types of investments to tax - advantaged accounts.

You'll realize it's much easier to create accurate revenue models with a fewer number of large accounts than with many smaller ones.

How to qualify: The role of a financial manager can vary widely, depending on whether you end up in accounting, auditing, financial planning or risk analysis (to name just a few departments that require financial managers).

A few issues ago, I wrote about the importance of senior executives» going walkabout — or leaving their offices every now and then to take a stroll through their business, from the factory floor to the accounting department, to get to know their people better.

«A lot of companies talk about «making the world a better place» but I feel like Etsy is one of the few which actually takes into account issues like sustainability, equality, humane treatment, etc. in all of its business decisions.»

«The GUIDES indicators that focus on some overall macroeconomic indicators,» Chisa recommends, plus «a few other topics that get you a lot of bang for the buck: British Colonialism, nations versus states, Dutch Disease (resource curse), Sovereign Wealth Fund, import substitution, current account balance, fiscal deficit, IMF austerity measures, and the «trilemma» of free - capital flows, independent monetary policy, and fixed exchange rates.»

It's a huge feat in a country where illiteracy is high and fewer than 10 % of the population has a bank account.

Manual inputting of data doesn't seem like a big deal for a startup with just a few clients, but over time it becomes a major problem area, because eventually you may be dealing with dozens of large accounts.

(3) While some of the major consulting and accounting firms and a few software operations are making some noise about the need for additional levels of business protection, the fact is that, as of now, there's simply no viable supplier or solution — regardless of what a business might be able to afford to pay — that can support all of the diverse IT needs that continue to grow and to grow more complex and more broadly distributed throughout organizations.

Apple Pay will launch in just a few markets by the end of 2017, so we assume that the US will account for at least 50 % of Apple Pay volume by that year.

In the past few weeks, Wells Fargo has been widely criticized for having a compensation structure that rewarded sales people for opening accounts, regardless of whether those accounts would actually be used by customers.

The company did a lot of things right, but there are a few tactics that stand out to me: their focus on SEO via Mint Answers and blogging, which accounted for 20 % of total new users; their production of educational infographics; and their clever use of incentives.

«We're estimating that fewer than 10 percent of tax return filers were making contributions to a Health Savings Account.

Stack, CEO of Springfield Remanufacturing, is one of the few who have put all the pieces together — from setting goals based on open - book management, to bonus plans, cost accounting, and employee ownership.

The numbers omitted a few important details: she said, for example, that the oilsands account for only 7 % of Canada's emissions, but did not mention what that percentage would be in 10 years.

Over the past few days, a number of Twitter users have reported getting warning messages from the company saying: «We've temporarily limited some of your account features.»

The retirement - account giant Vanguard says that nearly half of the 401 (k) plans it handles offer a Roth option, but fewer than 10 percent of folks have signed up.

T - Mobile accounted for nearly all of the subscriber growth in wireless over the past few years, and the other carriers are cutting prices and adding promotional offers to catch up.

So before I started putting my business plan into action, I made sure to stash nine months of living expenses — accrued during my few years of working on Wall Street — in a savings account.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

The partnership will provide small businesses — which GoDaddy defines as companies with twenty or fewer employees, although the majority of its customer base consists of businesses with five or fewer employees - with seamless access to professional email accounts connected to their domain names and a full suite of Microsoft productivity solutions, including shared calendars, instant messaging, and online conferencing, all delivered through the cloud.

Many of those who have been using the Web for a few years will have ditched their desktop - based POP3 account in favor of a free Webmail service, such as Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo.

If you're running your checking account down to just a few dollars, you leave yourself open to the possibility of getting hit with an overdraft charge, which can get expensive very quickly.

For example, canceling orders of Boeing aircraft (China accounts for nearly 12 percent of Boeing's sales in 2015) will have no adverse impact since Boeing employs few workers in China and Beijing can buy from Airbus.

Few Wall Street analysts have focused on it, even though energy accounted for 16 % of the company's operating income in 2015, up from 11 % in 2013.

Just a few weeks ago, the social network repeatedly deleted posts and suspended the account of a Norwegian newspaper editor after he published a Pulitzer Prize - winning photo of a young Vietnamese girl running away from her bombed village in 1972, as part of a series on compelling war photography.

Once you've chosen those few key accounts, start small with a pilot program of account management, focusing on developing management frameworks with which to handle future accounts.

«Access to affordable and attainable e-commerce platforms, as well as cloud accounting and marketing platforms are just a few of the fundamental components of our business that enables us to exist and thrive,» she said, adding that being a cloud - based, e-commerce outlet has also enables her to enter international markets with minimal fuss.

«The type of hidden fees annuity investors should pay attention to are separate account [investment funds] expense ratios; back - end sales charges; annual administration fees; mortality and expense costs; any rider fees, such as guaranteed income rider, death benefit riders [and] principal protection riders, to name a few,» says financial planner Joseph Carbone of Focus Planning Group.

He calls the story of massive switching by iPhone fans every year a «false narrative,» noting that the fourth quarter — when Apple's new phones typically are on sale — accounted for just 26 % of customer defections the past few years.

Don't forget to train them: Very few people come into [an AM] role with all the skills they need,» explains Lynette Ryals of the Harvard Business Review.If a top performer excels in sales, you might assume that you can transition them into account management easily, but this isn't always the case.

Parents can link an outside 529 college - savings account or open one through Wealthfront, which is one of the few robo - advisors to manage 529 college savings plans.

Berkshire Hathaway with a few minor accounting adjustments to account for some derivatives activity is generating north of $ 20 billion in after - tax profit per year.

Now, documents filed in BNY's case in the past few weeks 2014 the court proceedings begin Monday 2014 provide unprecedented detail about how STARS was crafted at a time when banks and accounting firms were offering deals for multinational corporations to take advantage of loopholes in rules governing foreign tax credits.