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Repair Regulations: Limiting Business Deductions

Women in Consulting

These rules are effective January 1, 2014 and will affect over 4 million taxpayers. into office supplies, these items must now be put on the balance sheet and depreciated and tracked. Top Consulting Tips' The rule is limiting businesses to expense a purchase which is $200 or less and consumed within a year.

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Can an Expense Be Profit?

Martinka Consulting

Sales were down from 2014 and expenses were up. His balance sheet is a mess. appeared first on Martinka Consulting. Last month a friend referred me to a business owner wanting to sell his company. But this is not the point of the story. ” John Wanamaker. The post Can an Expense Be Profit?

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

” Joe Knight, a partner and senior consultant at the Business Literacy Institute and the coauthor of Financial Intelligence , says that an absence of financial savvy is “career-limiting.” See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “They need to see why it’s a good idea.”

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Seven Charts Explain Why Chicago Bonds Rated Junk

MishTalk

Chart #2: Growing Payments While the current state of the city’s balance sheet is dismal, the real problem relates to what is expected to develop over the next decade. Chicago pension plan payments are expected to double from 2014 to 2015, and will then continue to rise for another decade before they begin to decline.

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

My personal belief is the trucking industry needs to realize production of goods will have ups and downs,” Satish Jindel, principal of SJ Consulting , which closely tracks industry pricing, told Logistics Management. “When the inventory adjustment is done, there will be a high level of freight.” “My A study by Alessi, et al.

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China Cash Crunch Eases, For How Long? Three Things China Needs to Avoid; When can Beijing Truly move to Market-Determined Interest Rates?

MishTalk

The central bank has been consulting executives of major banks about creating a deposit insurance mechanism and may announce a draft plan early next year, a source close to the situation said. In fact we can judge the effectiveness of Beijing’s implementation of the reforms by how rapidly growth declines over the 2014 and 2015.

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Laughable Eurozone Banking "Non-Union"; Expect Disorderly Breakup

MishTalk

The latest proposals could see up to 126 people being consulted on how to wind up a bank, even though agreement might need to be reached over the course of a weekend while financial markets are closed. Banking union won’t be ready for the results of the ECB health check in November 2014. How big is the proposed bailout fund? €55

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