Top 12 Financial Tips for College Students
If you are on the verge of graduating from college or you have recently graduated, congratulations! For many young adults, college graduation marks a major transition into adulthood and the world of post-graduate employment. It also guides in a new phase of personal finance. Now that you’re in college, it’s likely that you are in […]
e-NACH and e-Mandate
e-NACH and e-Mandate National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has implemented “National Automated Clearing House (NACH)” for Banks, Financial Institutions, Corporate and Government a web based solution to facilitate interbank, high volume, electronic transactions which are repetitive and periodic in nature. NACH System can be used for making bulk transactions towards distribution of subsidies, dividends, […]
How much Tax do you pay on Bond Investments?
Tax Saving Bonds Tax-saving bonds are great instruments offered by the government to help people save tax. These are special documents which offer tax benefits to the owners as permitted under the Income Tax Act. These bonds have a lock-in period of 5 years. India, the largest democracy in the world runs on the tax […]
How to Merge EPF Accounts?
Multiple job changes typically result in multiple Employee Provident Fund (EPF) accounts being opened, one with each employer. With the introduction of the UAN (Universal Account Number), it is possible to consolidate multiple accounts into one single account for each EPFO member. Retirement fund body EPFO offers a facility to its members that allows consolidation […]
Financial Leverage
Financial leverage is the use of borrowed money (debt) to finance the purchase of assets with the expectation that the income or capital gain from the new asset will exceed the cost of borrowing. In most cases, the provider of the debt will put a limit on how much risk it is ready to take and indicate a […]
What is Emotional Spending?
The buying factors that affect our (emotional) purchase decisions are highly personal such as love, sentiment, envy, pride, entertainment, and vanity. We will talk more about this later. In an emotional purchase, the real need does not necessarily come into play in the first place. The emotions come from external sources, like influencers, that create […]