Budgeting has long been treated as at best a pointless exercise and at worst a waste of time and resources. Once management has decreed what it deems an acceptable increase for inflation, department managers simply plug that increase into the previous year's budget, add in any capital or expansion funding desired, and send the budget forth. Read more...

Since it entered the PDF reading and editing market five years ago, Nitro has consistently won praise among reviewers and users for its enhanced features and streamlined structure. That tradition continued with the release this month of NitroPDF Pro 7, a PDF editor authoring and editing tool that enables users to create, edit, secure, sign, and share PDF files. Read more...

Financial planning has always been a growth industry, and is no less so today in spite of the economy. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.bls.gov), based on its most recent data, there are 155,300 financial advisors in the United States, with the greatest number residing in New York, Texas, Florida, Illinois and California. This represents a drop in the number of financial planners since 2008, but the survivors of the economic shakeout are doing better financially, with a mean income of $91,200 per year. Read more...