Are You Choosing The Right Investment Vehicle? | 8 Game-Changing Accounting Moves – Part 4

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With so many vehicles available to potentially invest in, what is the best financial investment opportunity for you? Clay breaks down the importance of consistency, dollar cost averaging and more.

Step 6 – Choose the right investment vehicles and the right advisors (From Take a Look Under the Hood with Certified Public Accountant with former U.S. Small Business Administration Entrepreneur of the Year, Clay Clark)

DEFINITION MAGICIAN – Dollar-cost averaging (DCA) –  is an investment technique of buying a fixed dollar amount of a particular investment on a regular schedule, regardless of the share price. The investor purchases more shares when prices are low and fewer shares when prices are high.

  1. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dollarcostaveraging.asp

Step 7 – Know how to accurately price your products and services (From Take a Look Under the Hood with Certified Public Accountant with former U.S. Small Business Administration Entrepreneur of the Year, Clay Clark)

Action Item:

  1. You must operate at a 20-25% profit margin if at all possible.
  2. 90% of entrepreneurs are not charging enough.

If you want to Franchise:

  1. You must have an Item 19.
    1. Your company has to make a profit of at least 15% after all fees without YOU doing anything in the business.
  2. You must have an Item 7.
    1. Initial franchise costs
    2. Training
    3. Real property
    4. Equipment
    5. Initial inventory
    6. Security deposits
    7. Etc.
  3. FUN FACT and FUN TOOL:
    1. https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

FACT: If you bought something in January of 1971 for $2,000, today it would cost you $12,455.63 for the same thing.

FACT: In 1999, Clay Clark used to be able to buy 4 yogurts for $1, today the yogurts are nearly $1.00 per yogurt.

NOTABLE QUOTABLE – “Inflation is taxation without representation.” – Milton Friedman

NOTABLE QUOTABLE – “In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.” – Alan Greenspan (The former Chairman of the Federal Reserve)

FACT – August 15, 1971: A Date Which Has Lived In Infamy – President Richard M. Nixon announced the Job Development Act of 1971 on August 15, 1971, that would incentivize American businesses to invest in new machinery and equipment to create more jobs, etc.

NOTABLE QUOTABLE – President Nixon on August 15th, 1971 – “I will propose to provide the strongest short term incentive in our history to invest in new machinery and equipment that will create new jobs for Americans: a 10 percent Job Development Credit for 1 year, effective as of today, with a 5 percent credit after August 15, 1972. This tax credit for investment in new equipment will not only generate new jobs; it will raise productivity; it will make our goods more competitive in the years ahead.

Second, I will propose to repeal the 7 percent excise tax on automobiles, effective today. This will mean a reduction in price of about $200 per car. I shall insist that the American auto industry pass this tax reduction on to the nearly 8 million customers who are buying automobiles this year. Lower prices will mean that more people will be able to afford new cars, and every additional 100,000 cars sold means 25,000 new jobs.

Third, I propose to speed up the personal income tax exemptions scheduled for January 1, 1973, to January i, 1972-so that taxpayers can deduct an extra $50 for each exemption 1 year earlier than planned. This increase in consumer spending power will provide a strong boost to the economy in general and to employment in particular…I have directed Secretary Connally to suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets, except in amounts and conditions determined to be in the interest of monetary stability and in the best interests of the United States.” – President Richard Nixon…Psss…also here is a little secret…OH AND BY THE WAY THE U.S. IS ALSO NOT GOING TO BE TIED TO A GOLD STANDARD ANYMORE…SO I CAN JUST PRINT MONEY WHENEVER I WANT TO…

  1. THIS DJ JOHANNES GUTENBERG NIXON IN THE HOUSE!!!
    1. FUN FACT – Born in 1400 and living until 1468, Johannes Gutenberg was the German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press. His introduction of mechanical movable type printing to Europe started the Printing Revolution and is regarded as a milestone of the second millennium, ushering in the modern period of human history.
  2. CALL ME EPSON, CAUSE I CAN PRINT IT!!!
  3. THIS YOUR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND YOUR BROTHER FROM ANOTHER MOTHER RICHARD NIXON ROCKING THE MIC FROM THE WHITE HOUSE PRESENTED TO YOU BY BROTHER PRINTERS! WHERE DO I TURN TO WHEN I WANT TO PRINT MY MONEY? I TURN TO BROTHER PRINTERS?!!!
  4. THIS IS DJ MORE BOUNCE TO THE OUNCE NIXON IN THE HOUSE CAUSE I NOW BOUNCE CHECKS LIKE FLUBBER AND IT DON’T MATTER CAUSE I CAN JUST PRINT MORE MONEY!!!!
  5. THIS IS DJ TIGGER AND I LOVE TO BOUNCE CHECKS, CAUSE NOW WITH MY NEW BOUNCE PROTECTION PROGRAM I CAN JUST PRINT MONEY WHEN I WANT TO!!!!
  6. HELLO AMERICA, THIS IS YOUR PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON. WHERE DO I GO WHEN I CAN’T SEEM TO BALANCE THE BUDGET? WELL I TURN TO MY GOOD FRIENDS AT HEWLETT PACKARD AND THEIR NEW LASER JET ENTERPRISE M506x. YOU SEE WHEN I CAN’T BALANCE MY BUDGET, I JUST TURN ON MY HP LaserJet Enterprise M506x AND I JUST HIT PRINT ON THAT BABY AND THAT CREATES THE CASH WE NEED.

 

U.S. would no longer officially trade dollars for gold. – Forbes – https://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2011/08/14/august-15-1971-a-date-which-has-lived-in-infamy/

 

Step 8 – Know the true cost of employees (From Take a Look Under the Hood with Certified Public Accountant with former U.S. Small Business Administration Entrepreneur of the Year, Clay Clark)

 

3 P’s of business

  1. Profit
  2. People
  3. Product or service you are proud to show your mom

Step 9 – Develop your accounting routines (From Take a Look Under the Hood with Certified Public Accountant with former U.S. Small Business Administration Entrepreneur of the Year, Clay Clark)

ACTION ITEM – You must schedule a specific time to review your accounting each week.

ACTION ITEM – You must schedule a specific place to review your accounting each week.

ACTION ITEM – You must make sure that you have the specific items that you need to do your accounting each week:

  1. Checkbooks
  2. Passwords
  3. Calculator
  4. Pens
  5. Paper
  6. Computers
  7. Screens, monitors, etc.

Step 10 – Avoid these cash flow killers (From Take a Look Under the Hood with Certified Public Accountant with former U.S. Small Business Administration Entrepreneur of the Year, Clay Clark)

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Here we go out. If you want to franchise, your business I can help you do that. Okay, so if you want to just email info at drivetime, show.Com give existing company I can help you franchise. But if you don’t have these things done, I can’t help you franchise and no one can you have to have what’s called an item 19 and item 19 at the 19th item on a franchise disclosure document and our videographer mr. Andrews been in meetings with phone doctors, if you’ve seen me help to take them into the franchise in world at 11 locations, and that means, if your store has to make a profit after paying franchise fees of at least 15%. If you don’t have an item 19 that shows your profitable at least 15%. The franchisee who wants to buy a franchise cannot get approved for a small business loan, because any banker in the world is not going to lend money to a company makes a 3% profit margin. It has to be profitable at a 15% rate. Without you doing anything, show me when you are not actually best business podcasts working. It still has to be profitable at a 15% does it makes it like the business system has to work without the owner doing anything at a profit margin of 15% or more that’s an item at work. You have to do that right. Then then, you have to make sure that you have an item 7 and item 7 will state only pull it up here on the on. The show me pull this up to this. Is this is big item 7 on a franchise disclosure document pulling this up here on the best interweb? So you can see the item. 7 item 7 chevy about him. 7 hold up there in 7 to get over here. I am seven ok google.

It goes over the initial katniss. If this is the seven categories of expenses detailing item 7, okay, it covers the initial franchise fee, the training expenses, the real property with her purchase, released the equipment, fixtures, construction, decorating, cost weather purchased, or least initial inventory, the security deposits business licenses. It’s all the things that costs needed to run the business, and so again the item number 7. It’s absolutely essential. You have it documented somewhere, so you couldn’t ever franchise your business, if you didn’t 1/2, show a profit margin of 15% after paying franchise fee, and if to you, didn’t have all your expenses document right. So you have to have a lot of 19. That’s what that is that’s deep distance to statement of best business podcasts profitability of the income item number 7, though, is the statement of expenses. If you don’t have that, you can’t franchise until every small business owner, whether you want to franchise or not, you have to know these things and nobody wants to talk about it, and so it’s almost like with business coaching people reach out to us to help them grow their business, which we do dramatically. That’s all the success stories. People always like to talk about their success stories, but people typically don’t want to talk about the the expenses. They don’t talk about the profitability, but you have to shop. For the sake of time, let’s move on to step number 8 know the true cost of employees. You actually know what it cost you to hire, somebody it’s not just their hourly wage of their salary and again for second time. If you attend our in-person workshop, we will help you determine the true cost of employees. Not tell you what you have what you find a good employee. You want to pay them well, so they can stick around I mean you want to keep employees on your team for as long as possible right you want to treat people well, you want to pay people, it’s called the three piece of business, but you wanna make a good profit.

You want to make sure you have good people and you and make sure you have a product or service that you’re proud to show your mom. That’s what it is I mean you have a product or service or proud to show your mom. That’s why I would never own a vape store right. The profit has to be good right. Any of the people that you, like you just really killed, the vaping, yeah I did I did I was thinking about making almost like a display case in a glass case, an elephant the room. So we could display all the fabulous of vaping tools used by employees. Take this plow that skated from the what are some really nice technologies are used in. There could be some other uses, probably but down and put them on display for all the customer to see what is it coming out? There called messick roofing has been around since 1962, and you know why cuz they have good employees at find good employees. Then they keep their 3-piece tail for a great product that people are happy to leave a favorable review about, because I do a good job. They make a profit, that’s fair, we don’t take advantage of a customer and they have great people, and so, if you’re out there on your roof is leaking because you know, what’s going to happen, you have kind of a little bit of a leak, we’re going to get hit with these monsoons here in april in april, just rains and rains and rains, and you want to make sure that you know that you get the roof clean up before the flights come down, get the the rains came, the rain came down in the floods, came up, rain came down in the floods, came up, the rains came down and the floods came up. That’s why you got to call my significant a what’s their phone number 918-747-7141 918-747-7141, that’s 918-747-7141 call best business podcasts messick roofing. Before the rains come down right, you want to the rains come down and the floods go up. The rains come down in the flats go up if your roof is leaking in the rain tour. Coming down, you’re going to flood your house, it’s going to be expensive and can talk. Okay, yeah, tim, essick roofing.Com, it’s misic roofing.Com! Also, this time of year there’s a huge problem. We have right now with mosquitoes it’s going to happen, mosquitoes bugs everywhere, and you have control your past call another great company, platinum pest & lawn. Okay, want to call these guys are. Phone number is 918-747-7000 where you can find podcast 101 business coaching conference is in a video library of thousands of videos outside from mentors, and we liked in the show, with a boom study further at dude 100

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