Accounting

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July 21, 2016 

Good News, Bad News on Student Loan Interest Deduction

The bad news is, if you are paying more than $2.5k per year in student loan interest, the excess is not deductible and cannot be carried forward. Also, if you are making more than $65k per year, the deduction begins to phase out, and if you are making ...

 Economy, Terrorism and Equality Top Concerns for Young Voters

July 20, 2016 

Economy, Terrorism and Equality Top Concerns for Young Voters

After 15 years of polling, focus groups and town meetings, the IOP poll asked members of America's Millennial generation to rate the issues and topics most important to them personally when electing the next president. Results from this poll show that ...

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July 20, 2016 

Xero Launches New App Marketplace

Small businesses are increasingly looking for simple and easy ways to connect their accounting software to apps that help them run their business more efficiently, with a 60% increase in the number of businesses using apps in Xero’s ecosystem.

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July 20, 2016 

FERF Elects New Board of Trustees

The Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF), the non-profit research affiliate of FEI, has elected a new slate of executive officers for the fiscal year, effective July 1.

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July 19, 2016 

Improve Your Firm’s Audit Business Through Routine Maintenance

When you maintain the status quo at your firm long enough to become detrimental to your success, the result isn’t typically an obvious or immediate catastrophe waiting to strike at some ill-timed moment—as when you neglect routine maintenance on your ...

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July 19, 2016 

Clinton or Trump? Politics Invades the Workplace

Management is more likely than employees to argue about candidates, with employers in information technology (47 percent) taking the lead, followed by those in manufacturing (37 percent).

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July 19, 2016 

IPSASB Consultative Advisory Group Holds Inaugural Meeting

The IPSASB CAG membership includes those engaged in the preparation, audit, or evaluation of public sector financial reports. It advises on the IPSASB’s strategy, work program, and agenda, including projects from technical and adoption as well as ...

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July 19, 2016 

New App Lets Employees Share in Travel Expense Savings

"Price to Beat and Expensify Rewards gamify corporate travel by giving employees a share of their company's cost savings," says David Barrett, founder and CEO of Expensify. "We're not here to enforce anyone's behavior, but we do want to bring ...