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A career in Financial Planning blends financial expertise with strong client relationships, offering opportunities to work as trusted advisors managing wealth, investments, and financial decisions. Professionals in this field range from bank associates handling daily transactions to financial planners overseeing long-term wealth management. Those in Business Finance thrive on problem-solving, ensuring accuracy in financial processes and strategic decision-making. Careers in this cluster span from entry-level billing clerks to CFOs of major corporations, requiring strong math skills, analytical thinking, and proficiency in financial software.

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Agritourism | Carolina Money Managing a Food Truck | Carolina Money

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Managing a Food Truck | Carolina Money
As the food truck trend grows, the Carolina Money team does not stay behind. We caught up with the owners of the Belgian Waffle Truck, Yvette and Jean-Louis Ledent, to learn more about their business...
Agritourism | Carolina Money Tradeversity | Carolina Money

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Tradeversity | Carolina Money
The University of South Carolina alumnus, Mike Meyers, certainly has a lot to share about his experience running his startup company Tradeversity. As co-founder and CEO of Tradeversity, Meyers works...
Accounting Technician | Kids Work!

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Accounting Technician | Kids Work!
What is an Accounting Technician? Accounting technicians compute and record numerical data to keep agency financial records complete. Mathematical skills are necessary to perform daily duties to...
Agritourism | Carolina Money 16-Year Old Entrepreneur | Carolina Money

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16-Year Old Entrepreneur | Carolina Money
Jake Johnson is an eleventh-grader at River Bluff High School in Lexington, S.C., but he has been involved in business from a much earlier age. At age 8, he and his sisters came up with the idea for...
Talking Music Entrepreneurship | Carolina Money Agritourism | Carolina Money

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Agritourism | Carolina Money
Many farmers in South Carolina have been diversifying their operations through agritourism and agriculture-based activities that bring people to farms, ranches or other agricultural settings...
Agritourism | Carolina Money Main Street Latin Festival | Carolina Money

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Main Street Latin Festival | Carolina Money
Just prior to the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Main Street Latin Festival is held each year on Main Street in Columbia, S.C. The Festival provides an opportunity to recognize the...
Cooper River | ETV Shorts

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Cooper River | ETV Shorts
The Cooper River has made a huge impact on the Lowcountry of South Carolina. The river, known as the "cradle of history of South Carolina," still makes a huge economic impact as an important...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile Edwin Wales Robertson | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Edwin Wales Robertson | Legacy of Leadership Profile
Edwin Wales Robertson (1863–1928) When he died of a heart attack, at age 65, on a business trip to New York City on November 20, 1928, The New York Times published a column-long story with the...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile A. Lee M. Wiggins | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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A. Lee M. Wiggins | Legacy of Leadership Profile
A. Lee M. Wiggins (1891–1980) When Lee Wiggins graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1913, he moved to Hartsville to become secretary to David R. Coker, managing partner of J. L. Coker...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile Robert V. Royall, Jr. | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Robert V. Royall, Jr. | Legacy of Leadership Profile
Robert V. Royall (1934 - ) After David Beasley was elected governor of South Carolina in 1994, his first priority was choosing a secretary to head the Department of Commerce, a new Cabinet post that...
Fire Academy, Part 1 | Project Discovery Revisited New York Stock Exchange | Project Discovery Revisited

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New York Stock Exchange | Project Discovery Revisited
The New York Stock Exchange is the largest stock market in the world. Approximately 2,300 companies belong to this market in which over 6 billion shares of stock are traded every day. In 1792, the...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile J. Wilson Newman | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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J. Wilson Newman | Legacy of Leadership Profile
J. Wilson Newman (1909-2003) Growing up in Clemson (pop. 400), J. Wilson Newman earned his first money in agricultural pursuits, such as counting squares at the Experiment Station's test plots for...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile John M. Rivers | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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John M. Rivers | Legacy of Leadership Profile
John M. Rivers (1903–1988) After 12 years in banking and two successful years as vice president of a securities firm, John M. Rivers surprised the Charleston business community. He accepted a job as...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile Edwin G. Seibels | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Edwin G. Seibels | Legacy of Leadership Profile
Edwin G. Seibels (1866–1954) "That I was not born on my father's plantation, Mount Willing in Edgefield County, S.C., in the midst of the fields of ripening cotton, was only due to the fact that there...
Frederick B. Dent | Legacy of Leadership Interview Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile
1870–1965 Bernard M. Baruch, the "Park Bench Statesman," made his fortune on Wall Street, but his greatest challenge and his greatest satisfaction were his service to his country as an economic...
Hugh McColl | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Hugh McColl | S.C. Hall of Fame
At the age of fourteen, Hugh Leon McColl Jr. learned double entry book-keeping while working at his father's cotton company. This skill would prepare him for a career in banking and would lead McColl...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile Francis M. Hipp | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Francis M. Hipp | Legacy of Leadership Profile
Francis M. Hipp (1911–1995) Known as "the master of the soft sell" for his artful leadership and participatory management style, Francis M. Hipp built Greenville-based The Liberty Corporation into one...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile Hugh L. McColl, Jr. | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Hugh L. McColl, Jr. | Legacy of Leadership Profile
Hugh L. McColl, Jr. (Born June 18, 1935) In 1886, Hugh McColl's great-grandfather organized the Bank of Marlboro, the county's first bank. His grandfather was president of the bank, and McColl's...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile John H. Lumpkin, Sr. | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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John H. Lumpkin, Sr. | Legacy of Leadership Profile
John H. Lumpkin, Sr. (1916-1999) John Lumpkin knows about challenge and hard work and what it takes to be successful, but to hear him tell it, no one has enjoyed life more than he has. "I have been...
Bernard Baruch | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Bernard Baruch | S.C. Hall of Fame
Bernard Mannes Baruch was by all accounts one of the most famous and influential Americans of his era -- and certainly one of the wealthiest. Born in South Carolina in 1870, Baruch was a governor of...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile W. W. "Hootie" Johnson | Legacy of Leadership Interview

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W. W. "Hootie" Johnson | Legacy of Leadership Interview
W. W. "Hootie" Johnson (Born February 16, 1931) On the desk of Hootie Johnson, there is a small plaque, given to him years ago. It is an eloquent statement of Theodore Roosevelt, which says, in part...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile Hugh L. McColl, Jr. | Legacy of Leadership Interview

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Hugh L. McColl, Jr. | Legacy of Leadership Interview
Hugh L. McColl, Jr. (Born June 18, 1935) In 1886, Hugh McColl's great-grandfather organized the Bank of Marlboro, the county's first bank. His grandfather was president of the bank, and McColl's...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile Hugh M. Chapman | Legacy of Leadership Interview

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Hugh M. Chapman | Legacy of Leadership Interview
Hugh M. Chapman (1932–2007) Hugh Chapman's decision not to enter the family textile business, Inman Mills, was of little importance to his parents and four older brothers. Whatever career path he...