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Penny wise: Chattanooga money experts on how to avoid financial pitfalls

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The bottom line is that money makes or breaks a business. It keeps employees happy and helps businesses grow. Yet there are certain financial pitfalls that seem to happen over and over again.

To find out the most common (and costly) missteps, we spoke with nine experts across Chattanooga’s financial landscape — bankers, financial educators and advisors, a CFO, an HR professional and even a restauranteur.

Most mistakes sting a little, but money mistakes seem to have a lasting pain of their own. And hopefully the insights our experts have to share can help prevent some business heartache.

Here’s what they had to say.

Jason Bowers