Business Friendly Tax Reform = More Tax Revenue
The treasury has come up with an excellent summary on the Budget and the forecast for the next few years see Budget Highlights Final. Suffice it to say that domestic borrowing will be checked at Kshs. 120 bn. and although the budget deficit looks high at 8% public debt…
Before you Start
What is it that you know before you start a business? Here are a few questions to ask yourself before you take the plunge.
Dairy Farming in Kenya
Looking to get into agribusiness? What about Dairy Farming? Here is a breakdown of all you need to know about dairy farming.
What is Good Business?
As entrepreneur how you treat your customers is what will help you get ahead. What is good business? Read on to find out
The Kenya June Economic Update
Main Messages from the people involved as per the full document… • Kenya will need to navigate through another economic storm in 2011. This will reduce growth to a projected 4.8%, which is still substantially higher than the average of the last decade. • The decade started on…
5 Habits to Expand Your Champion's Mind Set
We have been exploring champion’s mindset. I shared a host of tangibles to help us develop a champion’s mindset and making it happen {Expand.Enlarge.Stretch}. Remember the question I’ve been asking myself, Why do some people seem to have all the answers, while others make little progress?… And my conclusion was…
Wedding Plans and Dreams
Thinking of a wedding? We talked to MrsMaqC about hers and what advice she has for anyone thinking of making the big step. MaqC (my husband) and I share a story of faith, love and friendship. During our dating and courting time, we knew when we wanted to…
Let’s Talk Cards
It has taken me a long time to compose and upload this post because it puts my moral authority in having a personal finance blog to question. Then I figured we all have our vices and mistakes we make and need to correct, this is one of those for me.
Excitement as Uchumi returns to the NSE: Our Analysis
When Uchumi Supermarket was put under receivership and suspended from the bourse six years ago, nobody thought that we would one day see Uchumi’s return to the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE). One can hardly count the number of firms that have gone under in Kenya and returned from jaws of…
Financial Wisdom
Today we decided to get creative. Here is a brilliant comic strip on personal finance by the very talented Creative Director Ras Mengesha and the very talented artist Ian Njuguna…
Earnings Season
Safaricom Ltd (SCOM) Recently Bob Collymore, Safaricom’s Chief Executive Officer announced a dividend of KES 0.20/share after the he announced SCOM’s KES 18.4 billion in profit before tax for the 2010/2011 financial year.
Saving money: The life blood of a healthy financial life
When you are under a lot of debts and you wish to get out of the situation, then you may do so with the help of debt solutions. If you have a lot of debts that you are having difficulty paying towards, then you may opt for debt…
Why Safaricom will survive the Price Wars
When Airtel played the Bendover song in front of Safaricom House around September last year (if my memory services me right) Safaricom’s share price was well above the IPO price, as i write the share price seats well below its IPO price taking a beating from the intense price wars…
Entrepreneur Focus – Idd Salim
He is known in the local tech community as a master coder. He thinks, eats and drinks code and it would surprise you to know that the first time he ever touched a computer was when he first joined form one, precisely on 17th of February 1997. The day is…
5 Ways to Save NOW!!
Saving is one of those things we know we ought to do, but we don’t do because it feels so hard. We promise ourselves we’ll do it next time, and postpone it but we need to get started. Here are a five ways to get started now. 1. Figure out…
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