Sunday, September 6, 2009

Chase Online Banking By Dennis Frank

Dennis Frank

Chase online banking is a small business’s most useful financial resource. Most small businesses start with a great idea. The person behind the idea feels confident that the idea is sound and that there’s a demand. He or she then sets out to turn the idea into the latest must-have craze. What many small business owners don’t know a lot about is how to handle the company’s finances. That’s where Chase online banking can help.


Small business owners who enroll in Chase online banking have access to a number of useful features to help them better manage their businesses. The biggest benefit is the ability to log in to any account that is linked to the business (even personal and investment accounts!) at any time, day or night, seven days a week. While certainly useful, managing account balances is just one of many things small business owners can do while online.


They can also view transactions as far back as 90 days or check to see which checks have cleared and which have not. They can pay bills online which is faster and less expensive than manual methods. Knowing that online checks and deposit slips can be printed anytime they’re needed removes one of the fears that people have about Chase online banking.


Small business owners can request to be notified via email, voice mail and even by text message anytime a change takes place in any of the accounts being monitored. They can order checks, wire money, and transfer funds and so much more.


Chase online banking also enables small business owners to download monthly statements straight into the popular small business accounting software packages, which makes the daunting tasks associated with accounting much easier to handle. They can use Chase online banking to set up direct deposit for themselves and their employees and that’s a nice benefit to offer when trying to attract valuable employees. There’s even more and it’s all explained on the online banking demo so take a look today!


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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Using a Mortgage Repayment Calculator Online By Gemma Stanbury

Gemma Stanbury

Understanding how your mortgage works is the key to getting it at the best available price. You know that what you will be paying will depend on the size of the mortgage, the number of years over which it is going to be repaid, and the interest rate applied. But how do all these factors interrelate and, if one changes, what happens to the other figures?


It is finding the answers to these fairly fundamental questions that makes a mortgage repayment calculator such an indispensable tool. Finding such a calculator is very simple – just key 'mortgage repayment calculator' into your internet search engine and you will be presented with a wide range of websites hosting an easy-to-use calculator. An especially neat and straight forward calculator appears on the money pages of the Guardian newspaper. Not only does this particular version distinguish between repayment and interest-only mortgages, but also lists the remaining mortgage balance you still owe after a given number of years, together with the amount of interest you will have paid by each year.


Using mortgage repayment calculators is simplicity itself. There will be one box in which you fill in the size of the mortgage you want to borrow. A second box will invite you to indicate the number of years over which the mortgage is to be repaid and a third box will ask for the applicable interest rate.


The resulting calculation will show you what the monthly repayments will be, the total sum of interest that you will need to pay over the term of the mortgage and (with most calculators) the balance outstanding on the mortgage over successive years.


The calculators are completely free to use, so can be experimented with as often as you like and until you are entirely comfortable with what information needs to be input and just what the results have to tell you.


There is something of a thrill in seeing the figures emerge so easily and quickly from the mortgage repayment calculator, since the sums involved are really quite complicated. With repayment mortgages, for example, they need to take into account that you will be paying interest on a diminishing outstanding mortgage balance, yet also that the interest payable needs to be 'compounded' (outstanding interest due needs to be added back to the diminishing balance of the principal, because you will in effect be paying interest on the interest). Payments on interest-only mortgages, of course, are a lot easier to calculate – involving the multiplication of the amount borrowed, by the number of years, by the interest paid.


The mortgage repayment calculator really comes into its own, of course, when you have some serious decisions to make about your mortgage. If it is your first, then you will want to know down to the last penny just how much the monthly repayments will be for the interest rate you are quoted. You may also probably want to compare the shorter- and longer-term costs of a repayment mortgage against an interest only mortgage. The calculator will help you compare the offers available from competing mortgage lenders. If you already have a mortgage, you might be interested in the effects of any rise or reduction in interest rate. Would a remortgage be a sensible offer? Again, the mortgage repayment calculator will be an indispensable tool in helping you decide.


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