A vast majority of young companies never make it past the initial screening process. Here’s how to beat the odds.

Read article at forbes.com

Are You a Tigger, or an Eeyore? News from the top at HSN, Inc.

In managing people, attitude goes much further than quantitative skills, says Mindy Grossman, the chief executive of HSN Inc.

Read article at NYTimes.com

Experts Say Small Firms Lag In Disaster Planning – Risk Management – Property and Casualty Insurance

SME companies need to protect their employees with Disaster Planning and could get an insurance discount in return.

Read article at property-casualty.com

America’s Most Beastly Tax Burdens

Where does your state fall in the ratio of taxpayers vs tax recipients?

Read article at forbes.com

How To Catch A Fraud

Is someone skimming from your books? Forensic Accounting, offered by Thaney & Assocs., CPAs, P.C. can help you create internal controls.

Read article at forbes.com

A CFO’s Guide to Taking-On the Economy.

AccountantsWorld offers a wide range of accounting, payroll and web-based solutions to help accountants and CPAs work collaboratively with their clients. Use AccountantsWorld Directory to find a qualified local CPA and Accountant.

Read article at accountantsworld.com

Cash for Clunkers equaled $24K paid by taxpayers per car

A total of 690,000 new vehicles were sold under the Cash for Clunkers program last summer, but only 125,000 of those were vehicles that would not have been sold anyway, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the automotive Web site Edmunds.com.

Read article at money.cnn.com

Tax News From BNA Software

Berkley Introduces Bill to Raise Estate Tax

Read article at bnasoftware.com

Facebook becoming big friend to small businesses. Do you have a company Facebook page? Thaney & Associates, CPAs do!

Read article at latimes.com

Golf Cart Subsidies

Federal Credit provides $4.2K – $5.5K for electric vehicle purchases, including street legal golf carts.

Read article at WSJ.com

Frauds put forensic accountants in the spotlight

Frauds put Forensic Accountants in the spotlight. Thaney & Assocs, CPAs are proud to have Forensic Financial & Deterrence Analysts on staff!

Read article at accountancyage.com

Like it or not, here comes more stimulus

Push to extend some expiring American Recovery & Reinvestment Act – find out which ones.

Read article at money.cnn.com

Home-Buyer Credit Is Focus of Inquiry

IRS examining 100K+ suspicious claims for the first-time home-buyer tax break.

Read article at WSJ.com

U.S. Unveils Record Deficit

U.S. fedeal deficit is at an all-time high-$1.42 trillion for fiscal year 2009. Government says it’s not as bad as they thought.

Read article at Forbes.com

Powerball and Mega Millions teams up – with thoughts of a National Lottery for 2010.

Read article at philly.com

Hard-pressed leaders pass nuisance taxes

Brace yourselves for nuisance taxes as revenue-starved governors, mayors and legislators try to balance their budgets.

Read article at washingtontimes.com

Should Sam Zell, Tribune Co., owner of Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field pay sales tax on the $845 million sale of both, while retaining a 5% interest?

Read article at ctj.org

FDIC in the Red: Can an accounting trick of prepaying three years of quarterly fees rescue them?

The FDIC, which guarantees bank deposits, is out of money. To replenish its coffers and keep depositors from worrying, it’s pulling an old-fashioned accounting trick. Will it work?

Read article at Time.com

S.B.A. Softens New Good-Will Rules – You’re the Boss Blog

Effective Oct. 1, good will and other intangible assets can amount to up to $500,000 on an S.B.A. loan, with no limit on the percentage of the loan.

Read article at NYTimes.com

For Rent: Chief Financial Officer-One of our services highlighted.

Some small-business owners in need of accounting help are renting CFOs rather than hiring them.

Read article at WSJ.com

Are you encouraging and hiring giants or dwarfs?

“If you always hire people who are smaller than you are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. If you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become giants.” -Christophe Gronier

Read article at gronier.chez.com

Long term business success through tough times, a white paper by Mark James

Read article at principa.net