http://askcpasam.com/blog Making Payroll, Tax, Finance, Accounting Understandable Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:42:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://askcpasam.com/blog/2009/10/14/keeping-up-with-celebrities/ http://askcpasam.com/blog/2009/10/14/keeping-up-with-celebrities/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:59:09 +0000 CPA Sam http://askcpasam.com/blog/?p=413 During my lunch break, I usually read news articles and opinions from various news sites.  One thing that is always fascinating is the paradox of how many people want to be like the various celebrities in the news, yet how out of touch those same celebrities are with real people’s lives.  So many magazines at [...]

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]]> http://askcpasam.com/blog/2009/04/22/budgeting-software/feed/ 1 http://askcpasam.com/blog/2008/12/31/final-thoughts-on-2008/ http://askcpasam.com/blog/2008/12/31/final-thoughts-on-2008/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:00:08 +0000 CPA Sam http://askcpasam.com/blog/?p=229 Don’t you just enjoy the passing of an old year?  2008 brought many challenges from a financial perspective.  Large and small corporations, retailers, stockholders, investors and regular employees all felt some pain.  This post will have two major points.  First, the biggest question everyone has is why did this happen.  Last year, I was reading [...]

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