Defining An Activity Cost Driver

by Service2Client | Jan 1, 2026 | Blog, General Business News, Uncategorized

🖨 Print⏱ 3 min readAn activity cost driver is anything that causes a company’s variable costs to either reduce or grow. Since measuring an activity cost driver is a way to streamline the administration of managing production costs, it’s an integral part of...

Accounting for Net Charge Offs

by Service2Client | Jan 1, 2026 | Accounting News, Blog, Uncategorized

🖨 Print⏱ 3 min readWhen it comes it understanding a net charge-off (NCO), it’s the difference between any recovery of delinquent debt and gross charge-offs a business sees in a defined accounting time frame. NCOs are debts a company projects with a low...

Long Term Care Insurance Options

by Service2Client | Dec 1, 2025 | Blog, Financial Planning, Uncategorized

🖨 Print⏱ 5 min readIn 2024, the median household income in the United States was $83,730. However, the national average annual cost of 24-hour paid long-term care (LTC) for a retiree age 65 and older was more than $125,000, according to the Department of Health and...

Seven Tax Moves to Make Before 2025 Ends – Year-End Tax Planning

by Service2Client | Dec 1, 2025 | Blog, Tax and Financial News, Uncategorized

🖨 Print⏱ 4 min readTax planning feels like homework nobody wants to do, but here’s the reality: real money is sitting on the table. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act changed the rules this year, and most people are still figuring out what matters for their...

Partial Government Funding, Promoting Transparency and Protecting Against Foreign Terrorism

by Service2Client | Dec 1, 2025 | Blog, Congress at Work, Uncategorized

🖨 Print⏱ 3 min readEpstein Files Transparency Act (HR 4405) – The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Justice to release all documents and records in its possession of investigations and court cases related to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was...

5 Rules for Giving to Charity

by Service2Client | Dec 1, 2025 | Blog, Tip of the Month, Uncategorized

🖨 Print⏱ 3 min readGiving to charity is good for a couple of reasons. First, giving to organizations you believe in is intrinsically good – for them and for you. When we give, the “love hormone” oxytocin is released. Second, giving can reduce your...
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