Posted by Tracy Coenen on October 31, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Insider: Bradford Richardson, Executive Vice President of Asia Pacific
Company Bio: Bradford joined USANA in December 1997 as executive director of international development, and from 1999-2005 held the roles of vice president of international development and vice president of international. In January 2006, he was appointed executive vice president of Asia Pacific, and currently has profit [...]
Posted by Tracy Coenen on October 30, 2007 · 6 Comments
Google search:
mary kay party scam
Answer:
Yes, indeed! Beware the Mary Kay lady!
Mary Kay is a product based pyramid scheme, which means they use the product to lure you in, trumpet the potential of product sales, and then recruit you to be a consultant. Recruiting is the ultimate goal, and very little actual retailing of products [...]
Posted by Tracy Coenen on October 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Sam says that he went to BestBuy.com and bought a hard drive for in-store pick up. What he got was a box of bathroom tiles. Now Best Buy is saying he’d better take it up with manufacturer and that they’re not going to issue a refund and that Sam should just take his loss. We [...]
Posted by Tracy Coenen on October 29, 2007 · 1 Comment
I am in favor of school vouchers. It has worked well in Milwaukee. Don’t let anyone tell you any different. Is the system perfect? No. But the public schools here are terrible, and at the very least, the voucher program gives children an alternative.
Does the voucher program help everyone? No. Some parents are not involved [...]
Posted by Tracy Coenen on October 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Google search:
independent auditors as necessary evils
Answer:
That is an interesting search. The reader was directed to my article Finding Fraud With the Right Auditor, which differentiates between traditional external auditors, tax auditors and forensic accountants. It’s important for those engaging auditors and consultants to know the differences between the two.
Are traditional auditors a “necessary evil”? [...]
Posted by Tracy Coenen on October 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Google search:
patrick byrne & naacp
Answer:
First result is my article NAACP wants Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com to apologize. Cool!
See here’s the thing… I understand what Patrick was trying to say. It’s just that he said it in the worst possible way, and it came out sounding very insulting and condescending. And instead of just saying to [...]
Posted by Tracy Coenen on October 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Class action suits against auditing firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte & Touche are raising questions about future lawsuits. Auditors are suing PwC because they say they were denied overtime pay and benefits, and the suit covers all associates and senior associates of PwC in California.
The firm is saying that the auditors were properly classified as exempt [...]
Posted by Tracy Coenen on October 28, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Stan O’Neal, CEO of Merrill Lynch, is said to be stepping down on Monday. He is not going willingly, however. The board of directors was meeting this weekend to discuss candidates for the postition.
O’Neal’s departure comes following an $8.4 billion writedown in the third quarter, with most of that related to mortgage-related assets.
Up to [...]
Posted by Tracy Coenen on October 27, 2007 · 1 Comment
Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com made a teeny little goof this week. Well, okay… it wasn’t so teeny. It was pretty bad.
Byrne was part of a debate on school vouchers in Utah, which he favors. During the debate, he said that when minority students don’t graduate from high school, “you might as well burn them.”
Yet [...]
Posted by Tracy Coenen on October 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Companies that relied heavily on telemarketing were hit hard by the Do Not Call list. They were severely limited in doing cold calls over the telephone. Anyone on the Do Not Call list was off-limits, and today that totals about 145 million phone numbers.
One of the ways companies get around the list, is by using [...]
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