Find all of the following, explained in plain-English with no legal jargon:Business Taxation 101: A brief primer on tax topics in general, especially as they apply to businesses.Home Office Deduction: How to ensure you qualify for it and how to calculate it.Estimated Tax payments: When and how to pay them, as well as an easy way to calculate each payment.Self-Employment Tax: What it is, why it exists, and how to calculate it.Business Retirement Plans: What the different types are, and which one is best for you.Numerous Business Deductions: Several deductions explained in detail, including how to make sure you can qualify to take them and how to maximize them.Audit Protection: Learn what records you need to keep (and how long to keep them) in order to protect yourself in case of an audit.

    

    

    

    It is presented simply and comprehensibly and can be learned by the students with the least instructional guidance.

    For each test, the original data is shown with the steps needed to get to the final result. The tests range from high-level data overviews to assess the reasonableness of data, to highly focused tests that give small samples of highly suspicious transactions. These tests are relevant to your organization, whether small or large, for profit, nonprofit, or government-related.Demonstrates how to use Access, Excel, and PowerPoint in a forensic setting Explores use of statistical techniques such as Benford's Law, descriptive statistics, correlation, and time-series analysis to detect fraud and errors Discusses the detection of financial statement fraud using various statistical approaches Explains how to score locations, agents, customers, or employees for fraud risk Shows you how to become the data analytics expert in your organization Forensic Analytics shows how you can use Microsoft Access and Excel as your primary data interrogation tools to find exceptional, irregular, and anomalous records.

    International Financial Reporting Standards IFRS 2011 is the only official printed edition of the consolidated text of the IASB's authoritative pronouncements as issued at 1 January 2011.This RED book edition is presented in two parts: Part A (the Conceptual Framework and requirements) contains the latest version of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs), International Accounting Standards (IASs), and IFRIC and SIC Interpretations.Part B contains the accompanying documents, such as illustrative examples, implementation guidance, bases for conclusions and dissenting opinions

    Not anymore. The stock market is an uncertain place, and every day executives have to figure out what investors really want. There are right ways and wrong ways to do this. Get it wrong, and you risk alienating investors as well as employees, consumers, and suppliers—which can erode your earnings and stock price.In Winning Investors Over, Baruch Lev draws on his own and other finance scholars’ research to present authoritative, often surprising instructions for dealing intelligently with Wall Street—and boosting your company’s earnings and stock price. Through rigorous data analysis and real-life cases, Lev shows how to:• Understand and address investors’ concerns to secure ongoing funding and support from the capital markets• Deliver disappointing news effectively to investors• Build, rebuild, and maintain credibility on Wall Street• Buy time for your company’s recovery from activist shareholders and hedge fund raiders• Structure your compensation to win shareholders’ supportWinning Investors Over demonstrates that despite the uncertainty that characterizes Wall Street today, you can still craft a mutually beneficial, long-term partnership with investors.

    Each article is designed to be read during a 10 minute coffee break. This is the first in a continuing series. The following are the articles in this edition:• A Dozen Low-Tech, Low-Cost Strategies to Make Your AP Department Run More Efficiently • How an e-Payment Program Can Improve Your Bottom Line • Some Simple Travel & Entertainment Best Practices • Fraud Prevention: 8 Simple Tactics to Make Sure No One Robs the Till on Your Watch• Why Good AP Managers Need to Be Control Freaks • How to Efficiently Handle Detailed Invoices for Small Dollar Amounts

    Each article is designed to be read during a 10 minute coffee break. This is the third in a continuing series. The following are the articles in this edition:• Three Simple Changes to Make Productivity Skyrocket in Your AP Department• How Organizations Prevent Duplicate Payment• How to Guard against P-card Fraud and Duplicate Payments• How to Earn More Early Payment Discounts• How to Handle Weird Invoice Numbers So You Don’t Make Duplicate Payments• A T&E Policy for Employees’ Staying with Family on Business Trips

    Each article is designed to be read during a 10 minute coffee break. This is the first in a continuing series. The following are the articles in this edition: • If Your Organization Insists on Using These Seven Poor AP Practices, Try These Compromises • No Name, No PO: Guess What? No Check • Really Bad Check and Invoice Practices • A Straightforward Plan to Update the Accounts Payable Policy & Procedures Manual • Stop Duplicate Payments in Their Tracks: A 13-Step Precautionary Plan of Attack • How Real-life AP Pros Use Microsoft Access in Their AP Operations • Think Before You Act