Private Finance – Tech Titans are Cheap
Mega-cap tech companies are awash in cash and as profitable as ever. Yet they trade at low price-return ratios.
Kiplinger Private Finance – http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/value/archive/tech-titans-stocks-cheap-apple-microsoft-qualcomm.html
Month: September 2010
IRS to Stop Mailing Tax Forms
Private Finance – IRS to Stop Mailing Tax Forms Taxpayers still will have several options to get the forms they need to file their returns.
Kiplinger Private Finance – http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/kiptips/archives/irs-to-stop-mailing-tax-forms.html
Local Businesses Find Strength in Numbers
Private Finance – Local Businesses Find Might in Numbers Self-determining affair alliances are helping small and midsize companies build markets, cut costs and boost profits.
Kiplinger Private Finance – http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/help-for-small-affair-from-alliances.html
Get your retirement back on track
Private Finance – Get your retirement back on track
The road to retirement is positively besieged with obstacles. Investment portfolios have been rear-finished; home equity, once a dependable supplement to savings, is crestfallen; job losses and pay cuts further impede movement. And all this on top of more quotidian bumps in the road: finance payments, college tuition, and the cost of health care, to name a few.
Private finance news – CNNMoney.com – http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/money_pf/~3/v7BVd9-hgZ4/index.htm
IRS begins its tax-preparer registry system
Accounting News – IRS starts its tax-preparer registry system
 
The Domestic Revenue Service launched its preparer tax identification number regime on Tuesday, a major step in its plotted s –More–
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SBA: Small businesses shoulder greater regulatory costs
Accounting News – SBA: Small businesses shoulder greater dictatorial costs 
Businesses with up to 20 employees pay about $10,585 per worker to comply with federal set of laws, according to the Small Bu –More–
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Many U.S. households are reducing debt by defaulting
Accounting News – Many U.S. households are sinking debt by non-payment 
News that U.S. households are costs less and saving more, eventually sinking their debts, might appear to be inspiring. –More–
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Crisis panel’s chairman says meltdown clues were apparent
Accounting News – Crisis panel’s chairman says render down clues were obvious 
Phil Angelides, head of the Fiscal Crisis Inquiry Fee, said he doesn’t be with you how officials in Washington, D.C. –More–
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FASB could be swayed to modify its fair-value plan, an insider says
Accounting News – FASB could be swayed to modify its honest-value plot, an insider says 
Lawrence Smith, a member of the Fiscal Accounting Values Board, said rule makers could be won over to modify their pla –More–
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U.K. group chides U.S. over fair-value stance
Accounting News – U.K. group chides U.S. over honest-value stance 
The Fiscal Accounting Values Board will harm efforts to merge U.S. –More–
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CBO chief: Extending tax cuts is the least-effective cure for economy
Accounting News – CBO chief: Extending tax cuts is the least-commanding cure for economy 
Extending the Bush-era tax cuts ranks low among fleeting events that might boost the economy, and making the tax cuts perm –More–
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"Flash crash" forces SEC to confront consequences of changes
Accounting News – "Flash crash" forces SEC to confront penalty of changes 
The Securities and Chat Fee and the Commodity Futures Trading Fee are about to release their report on the –More–
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GOP stops a Senate bill that would punish job outsourcing overseas
Accounting News – GOP stops a Senate bill that would punish job outsourcing overseas 
A bill sponsored by Senate Democrats that would castigate companies that go jobs overseas was blocked by a united Republican –More–
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Free Client Article — 2011 Tax Changes At-a-Glance
Accounting News – Free Client Article — 2011 Tax Changes At-a-Glance 
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Fulton Financial Merges Bank Units
Banking News – Fulton Fiscal Merges Bank Units Fulton Fiscal in Lancaster, Pa., said Tuesday that two of its banking subsidiaries have agreed to merge, making a $9B-asset bank in commission in three Northeast states.
Union Banking – http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/175_188/fulton-fiscal-merges-bank-units-1026348-1.html
Earnings Restated for Mission Oaks
Banking News – Return Restated for Mission Oaks Mission Oaks Bancorp Inc. in Temecula, Calif., restated its second-quarter return, ensuing in a wider loss stemming from impaired loans.
Union Banking – http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/175_188/return-restated-for-mission-oaks-1026347-1.html
Porter Bancorp in Kentucky Raises $32M
Banking News – Porter Bancorp in Kentucky Raises $32M Porter Bancorp Inc. in Louisville, Ky., said that an institutional shareholder had bought another $745,016 of stock, carrying out its $5 million investment in the company.
Union Banking – http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/175_188/porter-bancorp-in-ky-raises-32M-1026346-1.html
SEC Filing Reveals NewAlliance Talks
Banking News – SEC Filing Reveals NewAlliance Talks In the months leading up to its deal with First Niagara Fiscal, NewAlliance Bancshares entertained an offer from another suitor, while long-lasting to woo a the makings …
Union Banking – http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/175_188/sec-filing-reveals-newalliance-talks-1026344-1.html
Carlile in Texas Wins OK to Bid
Banking News – Carlile in Texas Wins OK to Bid Carlile Bancshares in Texas announced that it has raised $328 million of capital and been given praise by regulators to bid on larger failed banks.
Union Banking – http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/175_188/carlile-in-texas-wins-ok-to-bid-1026343-1.html
Once Endangered, Washington’s Sterling Bank Now Ready to Compete in Pacific Northwest
Banking News – Once Scarce, Washington’s right Bank Now Ready to Compete in Pacific Northwest Less than a month after carrying out a recapitalization, the $9.7B-asset company cleared another major hurdle Monday as regulators rescinded a year-ancient stop-and-desist order.
Union Banking – http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/175_188/sterling-bank-ready-to-compete-1026337-1.html