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Top 25 Home-Based Business Ideas

Posted on 03. Aug, 2007 by .

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If you’re considering starting a home-based business then you should probably know that most of them are scams. In fact scams about home-based businesses probably make more money than actual home-based businesses. If you’re looking for a home-based business where you might actually make money, Yahoo Finance has a list of the Top 25 Home-Based [...]

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Sarbanes-Oxley Is Dead/Not Dead – Round 3,413

Posted on 25. May, 2007 by .

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For those of you who don’t know, Sarbanes-Oxley (or Sarbox or SOX) is a piece of legislation that was signed after the Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals in an effort to decrease the amount of fraud in Corporate America. However, the cost for companies to implement the laundry list of requirements has cost major corporations [...]

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IRS Warns About Phony IRS Emails

Posted on 02. Apr, 2007 by .

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The Internal Revenue Service today alerted taxpayers about Internet scams in which fraudulent e-mails are sent that appear to be from the IRS. The e-mails direct the consumer to a Web link that requests personal and financial information, such as Social Security, bank account or credit card numbers. This practice of tricking victims into revealing [...]

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The Worst Job in Finance

Posted on 24. Jan, 2007 by .

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What’s the worst job to have in the finance and accounting industry? I’ll give you a hint: 12 of them employed at the Fortune 50 jumped ship in 2006 after breaking under new regulatory pressure. In today’s Sarbanes-Oxley world, the chief financial officer post – once a finishing school for future CEOs – has become [...]

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IRS Renews Email Scam Warning

Posted on 11. Jul, 2006 by .

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Following a recent increase in scam e-mails, the Internal Revenue Service is reminding taxpayers to be on the lookout for bogus e-mails claiming to be from the tax agency. The IRS saw an increase in complaints in recent weeks about these e-mails, which are designed to trick the recipients into disclosing personal and financial information [...]

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