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2:00PM Angus Kidman | Standard advice when buying cars is never to get the finance from the dealer, but does the same apply if you’re buying online? More »
eBay Motors Adds Finance Comparison Tool
2:00PM Angus Kidman | Standard advice when buying cars is never to get the finance from the dealer, but does the same apply if you’re buying online? More » 
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9:00AM Angus Kidman | Personal and business accounting software in Australia has traditionally been a two-horse race: Quicken versus MYOB. Quicken’s latest competitive trick? Moving into the online world with an entirely browser-based version of its software. More »
QuickBooks Readies Online Version
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Personal and business accounting software in Australia has traditionally been a two-horse race: Quicken versus MYOB. Quicken’s latest competitive trick? Moving into the online world with an entirely browser-based version of its software. More »
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3:00PM Angus Kidman | You’ve identified the deductions that go with your job, and you’ll be able to use that information in the years ahead. But what changed regulations (and potential refund enhancers) will apply in 2009 when you submit your tax return? More »
What New Options Affect Your Tax In 2009?
3:00PM Angus Kidman | You’ve identified the deductions that go with your job, and you’ll be able to use that information in the years ahead. But what changed regulations (and potential refund enhancers) will apply in 2009 when you submit your tax return? More »
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3:30PM Angus Kidman | The end of the financial year is almost upon us, so get ready for filling out your tax return by making sure you’ve claimed all the recognised deductions for your job. More »
Check Occupation Guides To Maximise Tax Deductions
3:30PM Angus Kidman | The end of the financial year is almost upon us, so get ready for filling out your tax return by making sure you’ve claimed all the recognised deductions for your job. More »
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11:00AM Angus Kidman | For many self-employed people, invoice generation is a task that gets spread inefficiently between Word and Excel. Invoiceplace lets you shift the process online and get some automation happening. More »
Invoiceplace Manages Your Invoicing And Finances
11:00AM Angus Kidman | For many self-employed people, invoice generation is a task that gets spread inefficiently between Word and Excel. Invoiceplace lets you shift the process online and get some automation happening. More »
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1:33PM Angus Kidman | The blog at previously mentioned house pricing social network Home Price History offers up a trick for finding prices for houses that are listed online without a dollar figure (a pretty common scenario with auctions). Turns out that both realestateview.com.au and realestate.com.au store background information using Google Base, and if you go hunting through the real estate category on Base, you can often find the asking price in the listing for a particular property. As the blog points out, that situation may not last long, and our quick tests suggest it didn’t always produce the goods, but it’s potentially useful information if you’re trying to research a specific property.
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Find Hidden House Prices On Real Estate Sites
1:33PM Angus Kidman | The blog at previously mentioned house pricing social network Home Price History offers up a trick for finding prices for houses that are listed online without a dollar figure (a pretty common scenario with auctions). Turns out that both realestateview.com.au and realestate.com.au store background information using Google Base, and if you go hunting through the real estate category on Base, you can often find the asking price in the listing for a particular property. As the blog points out, that situation may not last long, and our quick tests suggest it didn’t always produce the goods, but it’s potentially useful information if you’re trying to research a specific property.
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Set Up A Personal Fuel Cost Hedge Fund
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | As part of his goal to get readers to save $1,000 in 30 days, personal finance blogger Ramit Sethi suggests setting up a personal fuel hedging fund to protect against rising petrol prices eating into your best intentions. His own method calls for figuring out what you were paying for petrol a month ago, setting up an automated bank sub-account, and transferring his monthly savings in gas costs to it. Setting a calendar reminder, he’ll check the cost of fuel in three months, and pull from the fund if needed, or drop more in if prices fall. If you’re not the type to save receipts, Sethi suggests an expense tracker like Mint to deliver your fuel costs to you. It’s basically an advanced means of tricking yourself into saving money, but a worthy one. Photo by ‘bert. Use gas prices to become your own hedge fund [I Will Teach You to be Rich] More »
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12:00PM Angus Kidman |
Getting home or car insurance online is pretty standard these days, but more specialised insurance categories can be harder work. If you’re self-employed and work as a contractor in many fields (including IT), professional indemnity insurance is a key requirement. Comparison site BizCover generates custom quotes based on your business size and activity, and will sell you the insurance directly if you find a deal that suits. Indemnity insurance is hardly glamorous, but better to hunt it down online than suffer from an unexpected lawsuit later.
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BizCover Quotes, Sells Professional Indemnity Insurance
12:00PM Angus Kidman |
Getting home or car insurance online is pretty standard these days, but more specialised insurance categories can be harder work. If you’re self-employed and work as a contractor in many fields (including IT), professional indemnity insurance is a key requirement. Comparison site BizCover generates custom quotes based on your business size and activity, and will sell you the insurance directly if you find a deal that suits. Indemnity insurance is hardly glamorous, but better to hunt it down online than suffer from an unexpected lawsuit later.
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Make And Stick To A Realistic Spending Plan
7:00AM Adam Pash | The Wall Street Journal walks through its own Budgeting 101 course, examining what makes a budget so hard to stick to and how to create realistic budgets that actually fit your fluctuating spending habits. Think about your life for a moment. Do you make the exact same purchases every single month? Of course not. What you buy differs from one month to the next. Yet many people use the “average cost per month” approach to budgeting, so that in any given month they can spend an average of $150 on clothes, and an average of $100 on a vacation, and an average of $300 on eating out, and so on. More »
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