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		<title>Is Your Dealership Accounting Department Serving You Properly?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many businesses have failed due to poor accounting and finance departments, so why would a business under spend in this critical area of the business? Given the current economic climate, an easy area to question costs might be the accounting department. While I am of the opinion no department is sacred, including accounting, before anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prevent Employee Fraud with Internal Controls</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the economic recession and the struggles in the auto industry, the motivation and the opportunity for theft and fraud have increased. The cash-heavy nature of their operations makes dealerships susceptible to fraud and theft, and sometimes the most trusted managers can be the perpetrators. The perfect storm of economic events has frightened many people. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keys To Help Avoid an IRS Audit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder why some tax returns are audited by the IRS while most are ignored? The chances of you being audited or otherwise hearing from the IRS can increase depending upon various factors, including whether you omitted income, the types of deductions or losses claimed, certain credits taken, foreign asset holdings and math errors, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s corporate-tax proposal would close loopholes, cut rate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama&#8217;s proposed overhaul of corporate taxes would reduce the basic tax rate from 35% to 28% while eliminating dozens of subsidies and loopholes, a senior administration official said. Manufacturers would be given incentives that bring their effective tax rate down to 25%, while a new minimum tax rate for multinational corporations would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hannis T. Bourgeois, LLP Announces Promotions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hannis T. Bourgeois, LLP, Certified Public Accountants, recently announced the following promotions.  Jay A. Montalbano, CPA, has been named a partner in the Audit Division.  He was previously a Senior Manager and has 12 years of public accounting experience.  Montalbano&#8217;s areas of specialization include auditing in the construction industry as well as business valuations.  In addition, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Few New Accounting Standards Take Effect in 2012, But Many are Under Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though only a small number of new accounting standards will take effect this year, several major changes are close to being ready for comment. Standards under development include new approaches for recognizing revenue and accounting for leases. The Financial Accounting Standards Board is also modifying the other comprehensive income presentation, and is expected to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations to Watch in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several rules and regulations that will affect a wide range of business operations are expected to take effect in 2012. Among the most significant are a new standard on fair-value measurement that goes into effect for U.S. companies in the first quarter, the Securities and Exchange Commission&#8217;s expected decision on the adoption of International Financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accounting Boards Agree on Proposal for Loan Impairment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board agreed on how to require banks to book losses on loans earlier than they do now. The deal calls for all loans to start in a first category, when a bank books losses on cash flows it thinks it may not receive over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FASB, IASB Reach Tentative Decisions on Aspects of Lease Accounting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board announced progress in their ongoing, high-profile convergence project on leases. Although an exposure draft hasn’t been released, the boards met this week and reached tentative decisions regarding cancelable leases, and revenue recognition and disclosure for lessors with leases of investment property. http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/web/20114910.htm]]></description>
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		<title>Banks Are Likely to Forgo &#8220;Amend and Extend&#8221; Approach to Loans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kurtzman Carson Consultants says that in 2012, banks are likely to be more selective about extending credit, ending the &#8220;amend and extend&#8221; approach. &#8220;Amend and extend deals were done based on expectations of economic improvement that have not happened,&#8221; said Benjamin Schrag, vice president of business development at Kurtzman Carson. &#8220;It can&#8217;t go on forever. [...]]]></description>
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