The home stretch: if you're looking for cash to buy a house
The home stretch: if you're looking for cash to buy a house, your retirement account could open the door. ONE THING THAT DIDN'T CHANGE WITH the Fed's shift on interest rates this summer is the variety of mortgage options for first-time home buyers. The days when you needed a 20 percent down payment and borrowed the rest from the bank down the street are long gone. [...]

Seeds of Terror: an Eyewitness Account of al-Qaeda's Newest Center
Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of al-Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia. By Maria Ressa. New York: The Free Press, 2003. ISBN 0-7432-5133-4. 274 pages. $26. For more than 16 years, Maria Ressa, the current CNN Jakarta bureau chief, has lived and worked in Southeast Asia, and she has called on that experience to provide insight into [...]

Taking Account of Charter Schools: What's Happened and What's Next
Dan Woll Superintendent, St. Croix Central School District, Hammond, Wis. An old country axiom warns, "Everything that comes before 'but' is hogwash." If that were in true, a substantial part of Taking Account of Charter Schools: What's Happened and What's Next would be of dubious value [...]

Meyer, L.A. Bloody Jack; being an account of the curious adventures of Mary
Meyer, L.A. Bloody Jack; being an account of the curious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, ship's boy.

MEYER, LA. Bloody Jack; being an account of the carious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, ship's boy. Harcourt. 301 p. c2002. 0-15-205085-X. $6.95. J* To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT. September 2002: This stands up to Avi's The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and to [...]

The Seeds of Terror:
The Seeds of Terror: an Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia. THE SEEDS OF TERROR: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia, Maria Ressa, Free Press, New York, 2003, 272 pages, $26.00. Maria Ressa tells [...]

Questions to Ask Potential Accountants in Interviews by Aazdak Alisimo
Whether you are retaining an accountant for the first time or trying to find a new one, you need to interview multiple ones. Of course, you need to know what to ask them The CPA, or Certified Public Account, is an accountant who has received a certification that allows them to perform certain financial services for individuals. Many of these services could be performed by non-certified [...]

Accountants Come In Many Stripes and Colors by Aazdak Alisimo
Accountants are often grouped into one general classification. In truth, they special in unique areas just like doctors or lawyers. Perhaps, when you consider the different variations of accountants, the place to begin is with the bookkeeper. Many people view this as being the epitome of the accountant. The picture of the poor man sitting on a high stool laboriously making entries in a massive ledger is part of our popular culture and has given a rather bad public image to the field. Although the bookkeeper is many times the entry level job [...]

How To Draft An Agreement With Your CPA by Patrick Louis
Utilizing the services of a Certified Personal Accountant, more commonly referred to as a CPA is very common. There are some things you need to think about when drafting an agreement between you and your CPA. Here are the steps involved in drafting up a legal and proper agreement between you and your CPA that will help you maintain a strong and long lasting relationship between you and your CPA [...]

When to Use a Certified Public Accountant by Patrick Louis
A Certified Public Accountant, or CPA, can help you make sure that your small business accounting or individual taxes are accurate and complete. Some businesses are small enough, such as home based businesses, that a Certified Public Accountant is not needed for most accounting tasks. However, there are times when a business or individual should use a Certified Public Accountant [...]

Forensic Accounting Certification by Frank Vanderlugt
Forensic accounting. Sounds like something out of an episode of CSI meets the IRS, right? If you think so, then you're probably not currently looking for forensic accounting certification, but if you are--or you find after this article that forensic accounting interests you--there are a few things that you need to know [...]