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IMGCAP(1)] In my daily work, I help businesses reduce the cost of their sustainability strategies, but through an expedition to Costa Rica, I was able to live a sustainability strategy.

Attorneys are readying their arguments for a Supreme Court case that will determine whether universities have to pay Social Security taxes for students they employ as medical residents at their teaching hospitals.

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Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., has reportedly predicted that Congress will soon begin debating both Democratic and Republican proposals on extending the Bush tax cuts, perhaps as early as this Thursday.

IMGCAP(1)] Research is the key to developing a list of good prospects to focus your strategic pursuit efforts. The more you know about a prospect, the easier it is to determine whether that business or individual is worth going after and, if so, how best to do that.

The group of economists that keeps more-or-less official track of economic cycles has decided that the recession ended in June 2009, even though most of the country is still feeling the effects.

There needs to be a distinction made in the accounting industry. The term “managing partner” is used to describe the leader or person in-charge of the firm; however this is not always the case. Some firms have a person with the title of managing partner but in reality, function more like a coordinating partner. So which one are you? In this post, I am going to make the distinction between a managing partner and a coordinating partner, as well as offer some suggestions to further develop your leadership skills.

The Small Business Jobs Act that the Senate passed on Thursday contains a provision that the AICPA and cell phone providers have clamored for: the removal of “cellular telephones and similar telecommunications equipment” from the IRS’s set of “listed property” so their cost could be deducted or depreciated like other business property, without tiresome record-keeping requirements.

Congrats to Louisville, Ky.-based Louis T. Roth & Co. for being selected as a recipient of the 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility.

The Census Bureau reported Thursday that one in seven Americans now falls below the poverty line, with 4.8 million more people joining the ranks of the poor last year.