2009 Archive 

 

Cash Is King: Utilize Cost Segregation Studies to Increase Cash Flow
An Rx for Health Care Woes: Five Ways CPAs and CPA Firms Can Manage Health Care Costs NOW
Just Passin’ Through: A Primer on Virginia’s Pass-Through Entity Withholding Rules
Rating: 4 (by 1 users)
Keep Your Head Above the Clouds: Stay on Top of Cloud Computing Trends
To Teach an IFRS Lesson…
Answering the Call: Jason E. Call, CPA, for the 90th District
Passing the CPA Exam: More Than Just a Test
By Brian Kush, CPA, CISA, CITP There is an implicit level of respect you receive in earning the CPA designation — not just from the public at large, but also from your fellow CPAs. We may take the other requirements for granted: the years of...
Rating: 5 (by 1 users)
Generation Trap
Young and old workers face same issues in different ways By Clare Levison, CPA How old are you? How old is the United States workforce, anyway? And, does it really matter? The current population survey for 2008, from the U.S. Department of Labor...
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Don’t Be Bewildered by Bankruptcy
The Benefits of Tax Harvesting
IFRS Conversion: Roadmap or Roadblock?
Break Free: Five Marketing Challenges Holding Back Your CPA Firm
By Aaron Taylor In today’s topsy-turvy world, many accounting firms are struggling to find answers to an economy that keeps raising new questions. So how does a CPA firm market during these challenging times? How does it preserve value? And how...
Rating: 4 (by 2 users)
120 Hours, 150 Hours … If You’re Confused, We Have Answers
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The Vavasseur Prime Bank Securities Fraud: A New Twist on the Classic Ponzi Scheme
By Harold G. Martin Jr., CPA/ABV, CFF, ASA, CFE, and Roy M. Terry Jr., Esq. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time; but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.” —Abraham Lincoln...
Camera Ready
The importance of speaking up for the public interest By Phil Umansky, CPA, Ph.D. The CPA profession has steadily increased its visibility as a trusted and competent profession since the temporary decline in 2001 as a result of the highly...
Dollars and Interns
It's Go Time: Form 990 Changes Are Live
Financial Literacy Success! Virginia Board of Education Votes to Mandate Personal Finance Graduation Requirement
In a bold move to ensure the future fiscal responsibility of Virginia’s students, on February 19, 2009, the  Virginia Board of Education (VBOE) unanimously approved a one-credit course in economics and personal finance as a requirement for high...
Business Combinations Revisited: Increased Complexity with FAS 141(R)
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How You Can Change the World: Corporate Social Responsibility
When the Going Gets Tough …
Growing, Growing … Gone?
MAP Survey results reveal continued growth, lack of succession/practice continuation planning The results (.PDF) of the PCPS/TSCPA National Management of an Accounting Practice (MAP) Survey are in. And while firms have shown healthy growth...
Weathering the Unemployment Storm
The Perseverance Payoff: Virginia Commerce and Trade in a Tough Economy