CPA is local artist-of-the-month

“I’m an accountant, a CPA,” Gloria Bruning said. “Just being in numbers all day long – I needed something in my brain to balance that out. So I started painting.” See here and here.

Job 1: Get the numbers right.

Job 2: If you can’t do Job 1, punt. American International Group said last week that bad calculations on some arcane debt swaps had translated to $3.6 billion more in losses than the company had previously estimated. And that’s just … Continued

The Year of Filing Dangerously

Could be rough going, with late start by IRS, forms and software mess This tax-filing season is shaping up as one to dread because of extraordinarily late changes in tax laws, outdated or erroneous instructions and forms, increasing complexity and … Continued