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Throughout the economic crisis, there's been a load of lip service paid to the important role small businesses play in driving our economy -- how they employ more than half of all private-sector employees, pay nearly half of all U.S....

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Regulators really seem to be catching that ol' holiday spirit this year, don't they? First came the spate of pre-Thanksgiving activity at the IRS. Now, it's the SEC's turn. In a span of just a few hours, we saw two...

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Funny thing, that Research and Development Tax Credit. It's been around since 1981, but it has never been made permanent. Every time it dies, Congress comes along and resurrects the darned thing. It has more lives than a cat --...

Maryland Association of CPAs BusinessPundit.com names the MACPA's blog, CPA Success, one of the 75 best business blogs of 2009! http://is.gd/5oBsV
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What defined business in 2009? Bankers and bailouts, for one. The proliferation of social media. A radical shift in the ways we find and accept jobs. A

Maryland Association of CPAs A nice summary from TJ McCue.
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List of 17 small business accounting software and bookkeeping software applications summarized for you.

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Sometimes inspiration comes from the most unlikely of sources. This week, it came from an intern at a Baltimore homeless shelter. To call the Helping Up Mission a homeless shelter, though, doesn't really do it justice. The 125-year-old mission supports...

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And away we go ... The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a sweeping redesign of federal financial regulations that, according to the Associated Press, "would give the government new powers to break up companies that threaten the economy, create...

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The XBRL flywheel continues to turn. The first phase of XBRL-based financial filings -- those for the largest public companies -- arrived in June. More large public companies will be required to file via XBRL in 2010, and by 2011...

Maryland Association of CPAs The @macpa team spent Dec. 9 volunteering at Our Daily Bread and the Helping Up Mission in Baltimore. Check out some pics: http://is.gd/5hkmC

Maryland Association of CPAs The folks @macpa are spending the day helping others. Can we figure out how to adopt this mindset *every* day?

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We've posted a new podcast about XBRL's progress and challenges. It features an interview with Microsoft's Taylor Hawes, who chaired the recent XBRL US National Conference in New York. Check it out here. http://macpamedia.org/media/audio/CPASpo tlight/Hawes.mp3

Christina Scrivener Kilduff The Fall Professional Issues Update included a video that had a classroom and a bunch of students writing their concerns, etc. Is this posted somewhere?















