Blogging All the Way To the Bank

Blogging can be a valuable (yet inexpensive) tool for small businesses to market their products or services. Tips for successful business blogging include creating original content, developing a blogging strategy, and customizing your content based upon what readers want. read more | digg story

One way to spot a really bad auditing firm

I’m embarrassed for this auditing firm. Here are their rates: Non CPA – Staff – $35 / Hour CPA – Non Partners – California Certified CPA – $50 / Hour CPA – Partner – California Certified CPA – $85 / Hour Sorry, but any auditor who charges rates like that is giving you an audit [...]

Check your fraud IQ

A list of the most popular methods for cooking the books. read more | digg story

40 days of Frivolous Tax Arguments: The filing of a tax return is voluntary.

This one is good. The tax protesters say that they don’t have to file income taxes because it’s a voluntary system. And they volunteer to NOT file taxes. Part of what fuels this misconception that taxes are voluntary is a Supreme Court decision which said “[o]ur system of taxation is based upon voluntary assessment and [...]

AOL Money & Finance featured one of my WalletPop posts today

It’s fun when AOL Money & Finance highlights posts from WalletPop because we’re a new blog and we’re trying to build our readership. It’s even more fun when they feature my posts! This post is about promotions (particularly from retailers) that promise to give money to charity when you make a purchase…. and the problems [...]

40 days of Frivolous Tax Arguments

Because I just can’t get enough of the Internal Revenue Service and our messed up American tax system, I’m going to treat my readers to 40 days of “frivolous tax arguments.” Settle down…. I’ll still be posting all of my regular fraud news and topics. This is just a bonus for the next (very painful) [...]

Today Usana employees are Googling…

“Usana insider” They still haven’t figured out where the leak is????

Usana’s attorney D.J. Poyfair and the Quixtar lawsuit

I find this interesting… D.J. Poyfair is the attorney representing Usana Health Sciences to the death against Barry Minkow. He is also the attorney who is representing a group of 15 “independent business owners” against Amway (Quixtar). It appears as though Poyfair thinks Amway is an evil pyramid scheme, while Usana is …. oh, I [...]

Excellent comment about MLMs (pyramid schemes)

A reader calling himself Bob H. posted this comment under a post about Quixtar/Amway. I thought it was good enough to merit a post of its own. What we have here is an illegal business that have bought protection from Republican Kingpins who happen to oversee the FTC. Times they are a changing though. Seems [...]

Fortune on Sam Antar – Takes One to Know One

The December 24 issue of Fortune magazine has an article on Sam E. Antar, the man most widely known as the former CFO of Crazy Eddie, a New York City electronics retailer that went down in flames in 1987 after the discovery of massive fraud being perpetrated by Sam and his cousin Eddie. The story [...]

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