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IMGCAP(1)] Last month, we discussed how your firm can boost sales dramatically with a company newsletter. Astute reader Michael Carter of Practice Paradox echoed our sentiments about the importance of a monthly newsletter, and offered an important suggestion about how you can create interesting content for your newsletter (and blog, too!)

Maybe it’s a good thing that the IRS has decided to stop mailing paper tax form packages to taxpayers next year, or it could be sending some unwanted visitors to taxpayers’ homes.

IMGCAP(1)] I recently read Copanion’s 2010 Annual Tax Survey results that reported about 70 percent of accountants are now scanning documents. This statistic sounds encouraging, that is, until you dig deeper into the data. Seventy percent are scanning, but ONLY 20 percent are scanning before preparation.

The two heads of Microsoft are finding themselves on opposite sides of a battle in Washington State over the imposition of a state income tax that would apply to only upper-income earners.

IMGCAP(1)] One of the only reasons I am writing for you today is because the accounting world finally awoke to the importance of physical well being and health and how it translates into workplace productivity.

Marcum LLP expanded to California and Hong Kong this month after merging in Stonefield Josephson, and the next target for the New York-based firm is likely to be Chicago.

A new book by generational guru Bruce Tulgan ofRainmakerThinking explores the phenomenon of “managing up” and howundermanagement hurts the bottom line of any organization.

Audit automation software developer Approva thinks it’s a good thing to be a control freak, especially when it comes to making sure that companies have the right financial controls in place.

IMGCAP(1)] Jeff Thomson, CMA, Institute of Management Accountants president and chief executive, recently tested for (and earned) the organization’s credential the Certified Management Accountant (CMA). The CMA attests a professional’s mastery of the skills most needed by accountants and financial professionals in business today – decision support, financial planning, performance, and control. Learn more about Jeff’s first hand experience in preparing for, taking and earning the CMA.

Recently released IRS data indicates that 2,840 households making at least $1 million collected $18.6 million in unemployment insurance in 2008.