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• A Guide to Tax Allocation with iGAAP

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  CCH and the Grant Thornton CPA firm have combined to produce the IFRS Tax Manager, which is designed to help accounting professional handle auditors and accounting and tax professionals to understanding the impact that IFRS and convergence will have on financial reporting and taxation (an obvious example: income tax allocation). [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:20pm EST
  by Dan Meyer

• A Famed Political Blogger Considers Dave Ramsey and Financial Peace

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  Well-known political blogger Meg McArdle (Asymmetric Information, guest blogger at Instapundit) takes a trial of Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace with her fiance and writes about the experience at Atlantic magazine. McArdle found that she was more careful with her spending when she left credit cards behind (not to mention the [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:45pm EST
  by Dan Meyer

• Brazen Biofuel Bilk--Another Ponzi Scheme Pollutes the Investment Environment

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  The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Mantria Investment, Speed of Wealth LLC, Wayne and Donna McKelvy, Troy Wragg and Amanda Knorr with investment fraud in the marketing of a "green" residential community in rural Tennessee and a "biochar" charcoal substitute. According to the SEC, the defendants (Mantria, Speed, the [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:47pm EST
  by Dan Meyer

• Twelve Blog Update: New Blogs Added

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  Couple of new developments towards the upcoming Twelve Blogs of Christmas season. First of all, note that all members of the "Twelve Blogs" (except personal finance) now are in bold with date of acceptance (e.g. 05: awarded Twelve Blog status in 2005) as an additional way to honor these blogs. [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:11pm EST
  by Dan Meyer

• Obama Contemplates Using an Emergency Brake on Spending

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  The Obama administration signaled to federal agencies that spending freezes and even actual cuts (not just "cuts" from the current services budget) are possible for the upcoming year. The impedus for action comes from numerous sources: expressed concerns from Asian nations, belief that record deficits imperil Democratic congressional prospects in [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:07pm EST
  by Dan Meyer

• No IRS VITA "Seed" Money for ACORN

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  The Internal Revenue Service recently awarded about $8,000,000 in matching grants for its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program and the controversial community group ACORN was not among the receipents. ACORN was recently embarrassed by amateur videos of its activities subsequently shown on conservative outlets such as the Big Government website [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:20am EST
  by Dan Meyer

• Coming Soon! The Fifth Year of "Twelve Blogs of Christmas"

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  During December, I have given recognition to accounting and tax blogs which were not recognized in previous years (once a "Twelve Blog", always a "Twelve Blog" unless a blog goes dormant). Blogs honored range from "CPA Firm Technology Blog" and "Roth CPA Updates" in 2005 to "Skeptical Accountant" and "Missouri" [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 1:54pm EST
  by Dan Meyer

• New Links Up!

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  About 10 new links added today, a mixture of news, accounting blog and tax blog links. Thanks to Michelle Golden, Joe Kristan and Rick Telberg, whose updated link lists provided the sources for the new links. The tougher job of eliminating outdated links will come soon enough.
  
  UPDATE: Added [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:24am EST
  by Dan Meyer

• If You File (Personal Income) Taxes for a Living, You MUST FIle Electronically

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  Trish McIntire
  
  Both houses of Congress passed a law extending unemployment benefits today, and as part of an amendment to the bill, tax language was included requiring tax preparers expecting to file more than 10 individual returns to file returns through e-file. The amendment also extended the homebuyers [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:18pm EST
  by Dan Meyer

• SOX Lite? SAS 99, Legal Liability and Risk Management

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  Gary Zeune, top speaker on white-collar crime issues, gives a primer on fraud alertness, detection and how to proceed if fraud appears to be a legitimate possibility. One reason for his concern, SAS 99, imposes many requirements on private-held businesses and state and local governments that Sarbanes-Oxley imposed on publicly-held [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:01pm EST
  by Dan Meyer