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  1. WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have issued pr...
  2. WASHINGTON -- Andersen chief executive Joseph F. Berardino assured Congress that his ...
  3. Firing up for College Some of the provisions of the new federal tax law that has jus...
  4. NEW YORK -- Large national companies are fueling the accounting industry's mergers an...
  5. Strategic Business Alliance Intuit (Mountain View, Calif.) and the Principal Financi...
  6. As CPA financial planners soldier through what for many is the first bear market in t...
  7. So you've decided to promote your financial planning business on your Web site. What'...
  8. American Bio Media Corp. (Kinderhook, N.Y.), from Richard A. Eisner & Co. to Pric...
  9. NEW YORK -- Exactly what went wrong at Enron? We still don't know, but one thing is f...
  10. Tax preparers are capitalizing on the realization that their role as tax advisors mak...
  11. Crowe Chizek, Grand Rapids, announced the following. Sheryl Vander Baan was appointed...
  12. On Aug. 20, 1962, the AICPA president (now called chairman) presided at a meeting of ...
  13. In a rare display of solidarity that can usually be witnessed only in times of nation...
  14. With the proposed global business credential soundly defeated via a membership vote, ...
  15. Traditionally, payroll services have been the bane of accounting firms. Many of their...
  16. NEW YORK -- Two application service providers are lining up in an important battle fo...
  17. NEW YORK -- Following more than a decade of service, John E. Hunnicutt Jr., senior vi...
  18. One of the more dynamic growth areas in tax heading into 2002 promises to be retireme...
  19. The Tax and Accounting Community's Internet Directory Basic listings in the Web Si...
  20. The consumer and business press has announced that you and other Congressmen will soo...
  21. With uncertain economic times ahead, many firm partners will look for ways to reduce ...
  22. The 441 tax law changes, the events of Sept. 11, concerns over anthrax and the state ...
  23. Sales of variable annuities are down and the number of customer complaints are up. Bu...
  24. Asia Supernet Corp. (Vancouver), from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu to William D. Lindbe...
  25. WASHINGTON -- The Securities and Exchange Commission's chief accountant, Robert K. He...
  26. The scope of the current Enron debacle reminds me the drunk on the Titanic who exclai...
  27. In our column of Dec. 17, 2001, we summarized tax legislation that had passed Congres...
  28. H&R Block has thrown its hat into the ring of professional tax advice for consume...
  29. Practice management (PM) is one of those all-purpose labels. It means different thing...
  30. The great accounting scandals of the past were McKesson-Robbins, National Student Mar...
  31. The Economic Growth and ax Relief Reconciliation ct of 2001 added IRC [section] 222 t...
  32. What did you say the last time a friend commented to you, "I could never be a 'number...
  33. In the mid-1990s, business headlines prominently displayed the debacles of Daiwa and ...
  34. Refinancing a home mortgage may have tax effects with respect to both the new and the...
  35. A case that occurred almost 40 years ago and as settled in criminal court over 30 yea...
  36. "By education I was trained to be a lawyer and an accountant but really have never do...
  37. Taxpayers who are concerned over the potential ability for tax return transactions or...
  38. WASHINGTON -- Although tax reduction would provide direct and indirect relief to tens...
  39. PARIS -- December was a busy month for French consulting giant Cap Gemini Ernst &...
  40. LOUISVILE, KY. -- The new Advisor Services division at TIAA-CREF has increased its ef...
  41. * Waugh & CO -- www.waughco.com Waugh & CO is a Nashville, Tenn.-based marke...
  42. WASHINGTON -- A broad coalition of companies and trade associations has issued a scat...
  43. Dollar General Corp. dismissed Deloitte & Touche as its independent accountant af...
  44. The concept of specialized or niche practices has been around for a long time. Lately...
  45. In 1933, as a consequence of the stock market excesses of the 1920s when entire segme...
  46. WASHINGTON -- Reeling from the pressure of federal regulators for its role as auditor...
  47. Great companies never try to be the best at everything. And accounting firms are no e...
  48. One of the first lessons in introductory accounting is that it is acceptable, yes, ev...
  49. * Nelco -- www.nelcoinc.com Nelco is a national supplier of forms, supplies and elec...
  50. Wolters Kluwer North America (WK), Chicago, announced that Gene Landoe has been named...
  51. AccountantsWorld.com www.accountantsworld.com Search 15 million pages of tax &...
  52. Goodman & Co., Norfolk/Richmond/Colonial Heights, announced the following. Ken Br...
  53. NORWALK, CONN. -- The Financial Accounting Standards Board and Governmental Accountin...
  54. CHICAGO -- Eighteen months after it was born by acquiring and combining the operation...
  55. Attaining Functionality Navision (Atlanta) has released its Attain program that buil...
  56. Girl: What makes you so slippery? Ice: Your skates slide across me on a layer o...
  57. Gophers Gophers go for bulbs and roots, Sweet and tender sprouting shoots. ...
  58. It was raining pretty hard on Halloween, but that wasn't going to stop my little sis...
  59. Did You Know? Mourning doves raise more broods of young than most birds do. In warm ...
  60. An actor seeking a job said to the producer, "I do wonderful bird imitations.&q...
  61. Howard loves puzzles. He has invited some friends to visit, but he hasn't made it ea...
  62. The Poet The poet sits in his chair With a dazed sort of glare. Looki...
  63. 1. Draw and cut out a large pumpkin shape from cardboard. Cover the shape with orang...
  64. How do ants breathe? Do they have lungs? Bethany Smith, Age 14 Tennessee ...
  65. I would like to know where the extra weight goes when a person goes on a diet. ...
  66. Like other boys growing up in the 1860s, twelve-year-old Melville Dewey attended sch...
  67. 1. Punch two holes across from each other near the top of a paper cup. To make the h...
  68. Elizabeth walked onto the patio, carrying a bunch of daisies. "Beautiful f...
  69. How many moons does the planet Jupiter have? Nishant Patel, Age 10 India ...
  70. 1. Starting from the bottom corner where the front panel and side panel of a cereal ...
  71. Equa-Ke-Sec tried to calm her fears as the soldier stood in the clearing, ordering h...
  72. 1. Cut two 1 1/2-inch rings from a paper-towel tube. Cut open each ring so that it w...
  73. In our April 2002 issue, we asked for your ideas about three letters we had received...
  74. My Imagination I'm going on a trip In my rocket ship. I like to look at...
  75. Journal As I look in the mirror, I yearn for a picture that is clear--One ...
  76. 1. Ask an adult to cut a coin-sized slot in the bottom of a margarine tub that has a...
  77. I got in a fight in school with my friend. How can we be friends again? Nick W...
  78. Whistle Me Home Whistle me home, dear field mouse. Whistle me home, dear br...
  79. Dr. Lee Boyd fell in love with horses when she was a little girl. Next to her home i...
  80. Dad Eats Slurp, slurp, Crunch, crunch, Chomp, chomp. Mom says, ...
  81. Valerie: "I had a terrible dream last night." Alicia: "What happ...
  82. 1. Cut the tab edges off a file folder so that one side measures 8 inches from the f...
  83. I'm good at kickball with bouncy playground balls, but now we have to use a foam bal...
  84. Halloween Black is the Bat, Blue is the night, Yellow the moon Whil...
  85. It was a cold, crisp October morning when we explored the home of the oldest living ...
  86. I have a cousin who loves to touch things and almost broke the light on my video gam...
  87. Look carefully at a pumpkin, and you may find an amazing animal waiting to be create...
  88. Tears Tears slip down my quivering face and land upon the floor. I try ...
  89. One of my best friends is moving next summer. I can't believe it. What should I do? ...
  90. "You won the contest! You won!" cheered Rabbit's friends when he opened hi...
  91. "I saw a unicorn today," Tiffany announced one night at dinner. &quo...
  92. Deep in the mountains, near an out-of-the-way village, there was an abandoned stone ...
  93. I've been to a place where dragons live, with aliens as green as grass, a...
  94. Young Columbus by Aileen Fisher He sat on the shore on a wave-worn stone ...
  95. 1. What kind of dog is made of concrete? Constance Jiang, Texas 2. Why di...
  96. The use of offsets could be viewed, in an economic setting, as a form of government i...
  97. PROMOTE STRATEGIC INDUSTRIES Oftentimes governments give selected industries a favo...
  98. REDUCE RISK AND UNCERTAINTY Economic theory usually assumes that agents, for a give...
  99. In an effort to win domestic support for a large defense-related purchase from a fore...
  100. (4.) While foreign governments often have laws or policy statements outlining their o...
  101. The mission success fee criteria has been developed to reward the contractor for achi...
  102. SHARED SYSTEM PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITY The key to the successful business, progra...
  103. Cash flow concerns are mitigated by the interim payments and the government is fully ...
  104. The award fee and mission success fee plan sets forth the criteria for interim award ...
  105. The award fee plan is set up such that there are two separate authorities that author...
  106. The fee risk removal pool for this period [initial] is equal to the award fee and mis...
  107. Step three--The FDO performs an assessment at each six-month decision, and the fee ri...
  108. Under the scenario where the current option is exercised without any cost mitigation,...
  109. NPOESS has initiated an innovative transformation from the traditional contract perfo...
  110. A&O--Acquisition and Operations AFMCFAR--Air Force Materiel Command Federal Acquisi...
  111. COPYRIGHT 2003 Defense Acquisition University Press COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group...
  112. The Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, located...
  113. According to a survey done by the Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medi...
  114. A new study from the Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Prim...
  115. The Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care in Washi...
  116. The Robert Graham Center in Washington, D.C., has released two new research articles ...
  117. Carolyn Clancy, M.D., acting director of the AHRQ, has named former American Academy ...
  118. The Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care opened t...
  119. Robert Graham, M.D., former executive vice president of the AAFP, was recently select...
  120. One of the aims of reason is to act as a virtual community for libertarians, to provi...
  121. I'm staring at a six-foot, 190-pound, Irish/Italian research scientist who lists his ...
  122. The impact of firm diversification on subsequent performance has received the most at...
  123. Experience from past acquisitions, at the organizational level, may build facilitatin...
  124. The form of an acquisition involves the nature of the offer made by an acquiring firm...
  125. The second possibility is that, consistent with Bruton, Oviatt, and White's (1994) ob...
  126. Research supports viewing a firm's environment as a multidimensional construct with t...
  127. It is unclear whether continued consolidation in the defense industry and any anti-co...
  128. In regard to the first research question, there is clear evidence that firms use acqu...
  129. In closing, the present research reviews current post-acquisition stock performance l...
  130. Method of Accounting. The method of accounting for an acquisition was measured by usi...
  131. ANALYSIS Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to identify the significance and ind...
  132. (3.) The potential implication is that existing M&A research may be biased by model u...
  133. Defense Science Board. (2000). Preserving a halthy and competitive U.S. defense indus...
  134. Kusewitt, J. B. (1985). An exploratory study of strategic acquisition factors relatin...
  135. COPYRIGHT 2003 Defense Acquisition University Press COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group...
  136. Conventional wisdom holds that defense industry consolidation resulted from decreased...
  137. West Chester, Pa., Oct. 13, 1999 - Cephalon, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEPH), announced that Davi...
  138. MALVERN, Pa. -- Cephalon Founder, Chairman and CEO Joins Bioscience Industry Leaders ...
  139. Business Editors SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2004 JDA(R) Software...
  140. Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers MALVERN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 26, 200...
  141. James Redfield kicks back on the porch of his new lakeside home in rural Alabama, rec...
  142. In closing, as a famous program manager said to other junior PMs: "You have got to ke...
  143. The October issue of PM was excellent, and I enjoyed the various articles. One in par...
  144. I read with interest the September-October 2000 issue of Program Manager. Enjoyed a n...
  145. I certainly enjoy PM as it keeps me up to date in the field of acquisition, and there...
  146. THE SCOTT YEARS (FEBRUARY 1971 -- JULY 1974) When the doors of the Defense System...
  147. We welcome letters to the editor. Please send to: Department of Defense, Defense Syst...
  148. Get seduced by the Dark Side with this romp through a galaxy far, far away. No Jedi m...
  149. STALIN'S LAST WAR: Korea and the Approach to World War III, Alan J. Levine, McFarland...
  150. 078642088X Stalin's last war; Korea and the approach to World War III. Levine, Al...
  151. A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection...
  152. A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection...
  153. Water resources management III; proceedings. International Conference on Water Reso...
  154. Psychotropic substances; statistics for 2003; assessments of annual medical and scien...
  155. DA462 2004-016873 0-7546-5071-5 William III the Stadholder-king; a political bi...
  156. I'm not one for modern living. I have a car, but I'd rather put on a harness and drag...
  157. Black Lilly: Have No Mercy III Kam Ruble Global Authors Publications PO Box 922...
  158. The laboratories at CECOM also played an important role during Guardrail development....
  159. LESSON 3. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A PROGRAM In the context of the Cold War, and under...
  160. Former ESL Guardrail program manager, T. Black (personal communication, August 3, 200...
  161. R. Ohlfs (personal communication, August 6, 2001), former chief systems engineer at E...
  162. Prior to Common Sensor, external coordination with the various subcontractors was min...
  163. Like G. Morris (personal communication, August 1, 2001) and S. Pizzo (personal commun...
  164. A fourth and perhaps most important factor that contributed to retention was that the...
  165. This will tend to facilitate optimization of schedule through the systematic analysis...
  166. The historical development of the Guardrail program summarized in this case suggests ...
  167. COPYRIGHT 2003 Defense Acquisition University Press COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group...
  168. This study examines the development of the Fiber Optic Guided Missile (FOGM), and exp...
  169. This case study explores the development of the Patriot PAC-2 and its historic deploy...
  170. Modularity: allowing a program to be created from individual modules. Expandability...
  171. The U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation ...
  172. REFERENCES Barlow, W. (2003). Program executive office simulation, training and ins...
  173. Yin, R. K. (1994). Case Study Research: Design and Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage P...
  174. A study was conducted to determine whether success factors identified in traditional ...
  175. This is my final issue as the executive editor of the Acquisition Review Quarterly jo...
  176. In October 2000, the Secretary of Defense announced that a new policy of "evolutionar...
  177. In July 1999, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chartered and funded a newly esta...
  178. The advent of the World Wide Web provided the feasibility of instant feedback between...
  179. Although the Department of Defense's (DoD's) current risk management direction presen...
  180. This article is designed for the project management professional who intends to make ...
  181. This article describes the risk management defense extensions to the 2000 Project Man...
  182. Technical Performance Measures (TPMs) are traditionally defined and evaluated to asse...
  183. Health hazard assessment is a critical aspect of a risk management acquisition progra...
  184. This edition of the ARQ looks at acquisition from a risk management perspective. Risk...