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How Lifestyle Creep Traps the Middle Class

How Lifestyle Creep Traps the Middle Class

The Concept of Lifestyle Creep Looking back at the last 16 years of my career, its obvious to me what I could have done differently with my earnings.  When I started out in my first staff accountant position in 2004, I was making $13.00 per hour.  I was a single … Read more

How to Build Your Budget Like a Business

How to Build Your Budget Like a Business

During my career as an accounting and finance leader working for healthcare companies of $50M up to $350M in annual revenue, I built many budgets from scratch.  I’ve followed budget processes that were extremely detailed and tried to take into account every penny of cost, and I built high-level budgets … Read more

Welcome to Beyond Pennies!

Hi, I’m Shelley, a financial analyst and corporate executive with an MBA and more than 15 years of experience helping companies grow profits.  I’m also an active options trader, Excel guru, and mother to three lovely children who are 21, 2, and 1.   I enjoy sailing, photography, content creation, and … Read more