Financial Cents | Arizona's Financial Podcast

How much home can you afford? How do you get started with securing a home loan? What loan programs are available? While looking for homes, attending open houses and negotiating offers and counteroffers can be an exhilarating experience, there’s a lot of prep and paperwork that must happen first – before you even start the process of making offers. In short, it can all feel overwhelming, especially if you’re unfamiliar with the type...

Picking up the discussion from our previous episode about what businesses can do to remain profitable during uncertainty, we’re keeping the conversation going on profitability. Are the fixed costs of running a business really all that fixed? When should you turn to technological resources to make processes in your business more efficient? It isn’t nearly as glamorous as generating new revenue or boosting gross revenue, but there’s ...

During times like these brought on by the coronavirus, should your business stay the course or pivot? How can a business owner leverage their relationship with a banker to keep the business healthy? What should businesses be doing to make sure their Paycheck Protection Loan will be forgiven? As stay-at-home orders lift and businesses everywhere begin looking for answers to these questions, one thing is becoming all too clear: there...

What should you do if your person income or business profit is impacted by the coronavirus? How should you allocate your resources and available funds? What will the new normal look like once the economy reopens? The coronavirus pandemic has been an unprecedented event and you’ve probably got a lot of questions about what you should be doing with your finances and how you should be navigating through this.

In this episode of Financi...

When we set about creating Financial Cents, our goal was to deliver a podcast that provided informative and in-depth discussions ranging from personal finances, operating a small business, common banking questions and more. To deliver on this, we started work on Financial Cents months ago, in 2019. Because of that, some of what you’ll see in some of the episodes was recorded prior to the outbreak of COVID-19.

While we feel that many...

Do you know how healthy your personal finances are? Are you financially prepared for anything life may throw at you? Not sure where to start with budgeting? As overwhelming as some of these questions may seem, getting your financial health in order and preparing for unplanned events and expenses all starts with a pen, some paper and a little bit of addition and subtraction. 

In this episode of Financial Cents, podcast guest Mary Hol...

There are a lot of useful lessons to be learned from the 2008 economic downturn – from steps small businesses can take to prepare, to changes that can be made during and after times of economic uncertainty. But the overarching lesson is that preparation and a solid business strategy can make all the difference.

In this episode of Financial Cents, podcast guest John Lewis, SVP, business banking regional manager, joins host Brent Cann...