Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansonn – ISBM 978-0307463746
Great ideas and encouragement to break out of the box you are in. I wrote an Amazon review for this book on September 7. I’m reading again now (mid-November). It is that good. Lots of great ideas that apply for a local CPA firm. …
One semester of econ in 6 entertaining minutes. A few cute quips from the video in very loose paraphrase:
The Fed is engaged in quantitative easing because they believe there is danger of deflation. But aren’t food prices higher than a year ago? Yes. …
Great video explaining one perspective on why QE2 is a lousy ideaRead More »
The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell, and Innovate – Clara Shih – ISBN 978-0137085125
From the cover: “Whether you know it or not, Facebook and Twitter are transforming your business in profound and significant ways.
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“The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell, and Innovate”Read More »
Don’t forget you must register with the IRS to get or renew your PTIN for 2011. Fee is $64.25. You probably received a letter recently giving you the web address to register: www.irs.gov/taxpros
I just registered. Took 25 minutes. Might want to have your CAF and EFIN (electonic filing number) handy. I noticed that my renewal will expire 11-30-11, which I suppose means I will have to renew next year before 11-30. So if such trivia matters, you might want to wait until after 12-1 to register.
Greetings, and welcome to my new blog. I am still blogging at Nonprofit Update, found at www.ulvog.wordpress.com. Why the new site? I am talking to two very different audiences: the nonprofit community and CPAs working in the attestation area. Thus, I will split my writing between two different blogs.
Many of the previous posts of interest to CPAs have been brought into this blog. Some of these posts are deleted from the other blog and some are left there. In the future, posts related to the NPO world will be at www.ulvog.wordpress.com, comments specific to the CPA community will be here, and comments of interest to both will be cross-posted.
I hope this will be of help as you keep up to date with the torrent of changes in the attestation world. Enjoy!
Do you know what is said about your business on the internet? Would you like to know a simple, FREE way to find out every time you are mentioned on the net? …
One easy way to monitor everything said about you on the internetRead More »
For background on the Cooks Source magazine fiasco from last week, see my post here. For today’s update, see John Bredehoft’s post: The new Cooks Source tactic – blame Facebook, and praise the non-existent Western New England Food Bank. …
Cooks Source claims to be victim of copyright infringementRead More »
Recent stories indicated that advertisers could identify gays through targeted advertising. If that is not a part of your life, why does it matter to you? Let me explain the process so you can see that the advertising technique should give us all pause. …
Why does it matter to you that advertisers can use ads to identify gays?Read More »
For California CPAs who perform attestation work, deadline for mandatory peer review is just around the corner. …
Mandatory Peer Review deadline getting really closeRead More »
Seven lame, business-killing excuses for not having a social media presence.
Social media now is where web sites used to be. …
Quantitative Easin’ is a new song in easy listening style that explains what the Fed is planning for the very near future. Fun explanation. Watch out for the depressing graphs though.
The singer, Curtis Threadneedle, is on facebook here.
Update: Fed announced the QE2 will be for $600,000,000,000 spread in $75B purchases per month of longer-term treasuries. Typo in title of this post corrected.
As news reports indicate the Fed plans a half trillion dollar quantitative easing, it is a good time to revisit the Hayek and Keynes debate. If you would like a rap explanation, check this out: “Fear the Boom and Bust”. Yes, Hayek presented in rap. …
Rapping Economists debate how to improve the economy? Rapping? On economics?Read More »
Sometimes we see trends or patterns and think they are pretty dumb. Maybe even reach the level of stupid. When those dumb things are at a societal level, we need to realize that is the way the world is working and engage the world as it is, not as we think it ought to be. …
Time to start thinking more seriously about your privacy. One particular online tracking company gathers everything they can about you and accumulates it into a very detailed profile. The cutting edge capacity of one company also aggregates your name and email address. …
Current data accumulated by tracking companies is exquisitely detailedRead More »
Review reports will change starting December 31, 2010. Two sample reports follow.
Update – SSARS 19 had been replaced by SSARS 21. All the reports have been revised. See:
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