Written by Lyle Benson, Our “friends” have meant everything to the success of our firm over these 20 years and now seems like the perfect time to thank each and every one of you.

Written by Chris Benson, When they make these distributions, the “net asset value” or price you see for the ticker, will go down because that price reflects the value of all their underlying assets.

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Written by Lyle Benson, The AICPA Personal Financial Planning Section recently held a webcast to take a closer look at the issues that CPA Financial Planners’ clients are facing in the retirement planning area.

Don’t let the big name scare you, two factor authentication is actually quite simple. If you just use a password to sign in to a website, you are using one factor - the password. Having a strong password is good, but adding another factor is better. So what is the second factor? As Lifehacker points out in this article, the second factor is something you have - for instance your cell phone. Once enabled, the first time you log in to a website from a new device the site will send a code via text message to your phone. You type in the code and that’s it!

I do everything online. I shop, bank, share photos, communicate, watch video, listen to radio, read, book travel. I do almost all these things at websites that require me to log in with a username and password. So guess what happens if I use the same username and password for all these sites? Someone who steals that information would be able to access EVERYTHING!