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Expertise
General accounting and bookkeeping questions. How to do monthly bookkeeping, how to prepare financial reports. How to reconcile accounts.
I cannot answer questions pertaining to pension or retirement planning.
This is not a forum to have homework answered. Please do your own homework.
Experience in the area
30 years' experience doing tax and accounting work
Education/Credentials
MPA from Univ. of Texas at Austin, MBA Golden Gate Univ, San Francisco CA
What do you like about this subject?
Accounting is information for the small business owner. If your information is better, your business decisions should be better, then your business can become more profitable.
What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?
Often small business get into trouble or fail due to lack of information about their business. The more information a small business owner has, the more likely the business will succeed.
Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:
Simply looking at the amount of cash a small business earns may not necessarily provide all the information a small business owner needs.
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Recent Answers from Arthur Naman
2009-11-22 Pensions:
At retirement age, a pension has a fixed value based on the contributions and earnings prior to retirement. Now, let's consider the options. One would of course be a single fixed amount paid to you.
2009-11-20 S & H:
Generally, shipping and transportation costs are included as part of cost of goods sold, basically, the cost of items in inventory include shipping and related costs in addition to the "direct" cost, purchase
2009-11-17 salary analysis:
Under normal conditions I might look at the trend over the past few years rather then just the immediate prior year. However, in this economy I am not sure that analysis would be valid. I am not sure than
2009-11-06 expenses papertrail:
Generally an expense form is used for expenses paid out of a personal account -- checking or credit card. If the expenses are paid out of the corporate checking account then this is not necessary.
2009-11-05 AT&T RETIREMENT:
Contact the HR, human resources, department of At&T *and* Lucent Technologies. This may take several (or more) telephone calls, e-mails or regular mail letters to find out who to talk to. Do not wait
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