Monthly Archives: May 2010

Why isn’t the Internal Revenue Code written in English? Have you read IRC Section 45R yet on the health care tax credit?

Why does the Internal Revenue Code read as clear as mud?  It must be deliberate.  I’m not complaining, because it’s good for my business as a Certified Public Accountant.  Let’s face it, if the average person could understand the tax … Continue reading

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Ann “Curvy” Curry should have eaten her wheaties before delivering a commencement address at Wheaton College

Ann “Curvy” Curry may have been “wearing a very fabulous blue and white outfit” underneath her robe, as she mentioned in her commencement address at Wheaton College the other day, but one can only wonder what was underneath her graduation cap. … Continue reading

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Monty Python on Auditors, Accountants, and Embezzlement

If you love John Cleese, Michael Palin, and the rest of the gang from Monty Python as I do, and you are a Certified Public Accountant, Chartered Accountant, auditor, controller, accounting manager, or bookkeeper, then you will love this video … Continue reading

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Do you remember the accounting days of old?

I started my career in public accounting in the 1970s.  Our profession then was virtually non-electronic.  I can remember paying $300 for my first pocket calculator, which today would sell for $1.   One-write systems were the norm.  QuickBooks had not yet been … Continue reading

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Is the IRS Today’s Mafia? The Confessions of the Barefoot Accountant, a Consigliere to Goombas

Is the IRS Today’s Mafia? The Confessions of the Barefoot Accountant, a Consigliere to Goombas Continue reading

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