The following five websites are great resources for developing the aforementioned skills and knowledge, staying up to date on the economy and stock market and informing yourself when making financial decisions.

Social Security checks were once mailed for receipt on the first of each month. That changed in 1997. Many people are not aware that there is a calendar of dates that social security check receipt and mailings follow. Check it out!

Ramona Pearson CRPC, MBA, CPA discusses the impact of longer life-spans on planning personal finances.

For many of us, just hearing the word budget can send us running. We like to skip over it on our monthly to do list (if it was there in the first place). Oops! I mean why budget when you could do something else … anything else? We know that we will not be able to unsee the truth of whatever we discover about our financial health. However, like so many maintenance tasks, the hardest part of budgeting is actually sitting down to do it.

The National Association of Black Accountants’ 50th Year Celebration was held at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada June 19-22, 2019. Ramona Pearson was honored as the first female national president and her continued commitment to NABA’s motto Lifting As We Climb.