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Accounting Firms Tally High Margins

Mary Ellen Biery | Posted 04.04.2013 | Small Business
Read More: Small Business, Tax Season, Profits, Economy, Service Industries, Accountants, Private Companies, Accounting, Profitability, Small Business News
Mary Ellen Biery

Privately held accounting, tax prep, bookkeeping and payroll services companies (NAICS code 5412) posted an average annual net profit margin of 21.2 percent, based on financial statements filed during the 12-month period ended February 2013.

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The Real Winners In The Fiscal Cliff Battle

Reuters | Posted 03.12.2013 | Business
Read More: Tax Advisers, Fiscal Cliff Taxes, Video, Reuters, Accountants, Business News, Fiscal Cliff, Fiscal Cliff Tax Hikes, Fiscal-Cliff-Panic, Tax Lawyers, Business News

* Estate planning advisers very busy in final weeks of 2012 * Myriad of tax changes seen prompting more to seek tax advice ...

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Why Women Are Hypocrites, Too

Elizabeth Tannen | Posted 09.04.2012 | Women
Read More: Hypocrisy, Accountants, Hedge Funds, Single Women, Trust Funds, Dating, Battle of the Sexes, Hypocrite, Women News
Elizabeth Tannen

Sometimes, my single lady friends and I, we complain. I know, I know: For the most part, we're happy, independent, well-adjusted women perfectly happy being by ourselves. Yada yada.

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What Your Accountant Isn't Telling You

Reuters | Posted 06.16.2012 | Home
Read More: Tax Deadline 2012, Tax Deadline, Tax Refunds, Reuters, Tax Day 2012, Accountants, Tax Filing, Professional Tax Help, Tax Day April 17, Income Tax Refunds, Home News

(The author is a Reuters contributor. The opinions expressed are his own.) By Lou Carlozo CHICAGO, April 16 (Reuters) -...

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Number Of Job Openings Hits Highest Level In Years

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 04.08.2012 | Business
Read More: Retailers, Job Openings, Job Market, Video, Labor Market, Job Postings, Great Recession, Labor Department, Accountants, Jobs, Hiring, Manufacturing, Architects, Engineers, Business News

WASHINGTON — The number of available jobs in the United States jumped in December to near a three-year high, supporting other data that show a b...

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The Government's Secret War Against Small Business

Robert Levin | Posted 04.08.2012 | Small Business
Read More: Taxes, Government, Small Business, Tax Audits, Tax Laws, Accountants, Wage Theft Prevention Act, Small Business Taxes, Cpa, Accounting, Small Business America, Small Business News
Robert Levin

State tax auditors are being told to shake down local businesses to generate revenue. And while big businesses have internal tax specialists who can fight unjustified assessments, small businesses often have no choice but to pay since the cost to them of fighting back is so high.

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Struggling Michigan Training 'Financial Swat' Teams

Bloomberg | Jeff Green and Jonathan Keehner | Posted 06.18.2011 | Business
Read More: Deficit, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Bankruptcy, Unemployment, Economic Recession, Nassau County, Corporate Advisors, Accountants, Medicaid, Managers, Financial Professionals, Michigan, Rick Snyder, Business News

Michigan is giving hundreds of financial professionals and public employees a crash course in advising troubled municipalities, building an army of em...

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National Hug-an-Accountant Month

Aaron Hurst | Posted 06.12.2011 | Impact
Read More: Accountants, Washington DC, Washington Dc Schools, Accounting, Pro Bono, April 15, Taxes, Impact News
Aaron Hurst

I propose we dub this stressful time of year "National Hug-an-Accountant Month" in honor of the behind-the-scenes hard work these unsung professionals do for nonprofits and the community.

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Tax Prep Blues

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Deborah Szekely, Accountants, Steve Forbes, Irs, Tax Preparation, Overhaul, Politics News
Dr. Susan Corso

Sorry, darlings, but it's getting close to tax time, and you know what that means. For those of us who itemize, all those little pieces of paper need ...

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Do Your Own Damn Taxes

Joseph J. Thorndike | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Turbotax, Taxes, Congress, Mike Enzi, Tax, Turbo Tax, Tax Day, Accountants, Tim Pawlenty, Tax Filing, Taxpayers, 1040, Politics News
Joseph J. Thorndike

Should members of Congress be forced to do their own taxes? Anesthetized by too much tax assistance, politicians aren't motivated to do the hard work of crafting tax reform.

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Swiss Banker's Reaction to U.S. Treasury Hiding A.I.G. Loss

Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Shares, Fired, Payments, White Collar Crime, Losses, U.S. Treasury, Commissions, Federal Reserve, Collusion, Institutional Clients, Accounting Entry, Asset, Krisken Management, Citizens, Ubs, Goldman Sachs, Aig, Inspector General Barofsky: U.S. Treasury Hid a.I.G. Loss., Go Bust, Defraud, Bailed Out, Accountants, Subsidized, Pay to Play, Foreclosed Homes, Accounting, Revalue, Negligence, Disclaimer, Depreciate, Repurchase, American Tax Payer, Tax Evasion, Racketeering, Swiss Baker, Write Off, Auditors, JP Morgan, Proceeds of the Sale, Intermediaries, Christopher Hill, Tax Returns, Job, Banks, Business News
Iris Mack

Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are being subsidized by the Federal Reserve. Why can't the Fed instead subsidize Americans who want a job? How stupid do they think the American taxpayer is?

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'Accountants' and Lawyers' Welfare Act of 2010': Financial Reform Rife With Loopholes

newsweek.com | Michael Hirsh | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Restoring American Financial Stability Act, Financial Reform Bill, Maria Cantwell, Derivative Regulation, Christopher Dodd, Lawyers, Credit Default Swaps, Accountants, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler, Barack Obama, Business News

President Obama and leading Democrats are calling the "Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010" the greatest overhaul of Wall Street since ...

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Accountants: Affairs More Likely In Industry

Telegraph | Myra Butterworth, Personal Finance Correspondent | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Accountants, Extra Marital Dating, Affairs, Most Likely to Have Affairs, Affairs Accountants, Accountants Affairs, Home News

Research by Illicit Encounters.com, an extra-marital dating site with almost 300,000 members, found that 8,746 of all its male members work in account...

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Financial Analyst Is Top Job For '08 Grads

MSN | Nathan Lippe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Top Jobs for College Graduates, Business Majors, Computer Systems Analysts, Graduating Seniors, Financial Analysts, Real World Jobs, Accountants, Top Jobs for Graduates, Business News

Once summer is in sight, students everywhere spend less time outlining their research papers and more time planning their summer vacations. The annual...

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Best Places To Launch A Career? Accounting Firms

BusinessWeek | Lindsey Gerdes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Best Place to Launch Career, Accountants, Deloitte & Touche, Accounting Firms, Business News

Accountants used to be spoofed as bean counters--dutiful, middle-aged, gray-suited men with considerable analytical expertise but little charisma. Tha...

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