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The Immortals

It seems that we have immortals living among us, and apparently I met one early this week! An appointment was scheduled well in advance of the date; I thought to discuss the possibility of purchasing this CPA’s practice.  Obviously I was incorrect.  The gentleman had...

Malware Maladies

How secure is your data? Or rather, how secure is your client’s information on your systems, to be more precise? Because not only is there a secondary market for your client’s information,  there are those who are looking to find methods of laundering money, purchase...

Retirement

On ongoing discussion point with clients throughout the year is retirement planning is how much is enough.  Working with financial planner over the years I know that this is a very specialized answer for each individual or couple. But according to a recent Gallup...

The Minimum Wage

An ongoing issue for small business throughout the US is the ongoing costs of labor. The cost of labor will be on 34 state ballots this year, minimum wage increases have been proposed, and at the behest of President Obama, the federal minimum wage may be increased to...

The top 3%

The IRS has just released their updated statistics for 2011. Taxpayers filed almost 5 million returns with adjusted gross incomes of $200,000 or more for 2011, up over 9 percent from the prior year. These high-income returns represent about 3 percent of all returns...

Buying a job

I was in a networking group with a franchise owner.  He never referred any business to me, including his own – but at one event we were talking, and he had imbibed a bit and he started to talk. He was sorry he had bought his franchise.  He had owned it for a...

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