As the football season ends tax season is getting into high gear. So after tuning into the Super Bowl, your next move should be creating a game plan for filing your 2008 tax return.
In these tough times you should get an early start – if you have money coming back to you, you want [...]
The following is a statement by Dave McCurdy, President and CEO of Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers:
“In directing the Department of Transportation to set new fuel economy standards for MY 2011, President Obama promised a ’sustained effort’ to enhance energy security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We share those goals and are working to bring tomorrow’s [...]
Findings Forecast How Manufacturers Will Connect with Consumers in the 2009 Marketplace
BrandSpark International’s Best New Product Awards, one of the largest North American consumer survey programs focused on new product development and innovation, today revealed research and insights from its first American Grocery Shopper Study.
The study, which surveyed more than 50,000 U.S. shoppers, revealed [...]
Over 20,000 People Sign Petition in Advance of Davos Meeting
ACCION(R) International, a pioneer and leader in microfinance, formally announced that its ‘Lend to End Poverty’ campaign and petition, calling on economic leaders to promote and prioritize microfinance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2009, crossed the 20,000 signature mark in advance of [...]
Thomson Reuters Tax Analyst Guides Taxpayers through the 1040 Process for a Turbulent 2008
While the process of filing your return each year is pretty much the same, it will be important to watch the details and consider new options when rounding up your statements of income, figuring out your standard or itemized deductions, subtracting [...]
Data through November 2008, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller(1) Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, shows continued broad based declines in the prices of existing single family homes across the United States, with 11 of the 20 metro areas showing record rates of annual decline, and 14 [...]
Existing-home sales rose unexpectedly while inventory declined, led by a surge of sales in the West, according to the National Association of Realtors(R).
Existing-home sales — including single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops — jumped 6.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate(1) of 4.74 million units in December from a downwardly revised pace of 4.45 million [...]
Take-over begins a comprehensive growth by acquisition strategy for the pre-IPO company
U.S. Debt Settlement(TM) (USDS) and Compass Credit Services, Inc. have announced that their respective companies have completed their agreement under which U.S. Debt Settlement has acquired the assets of Compass Credit Services, a consumer debt reduction and management services company.
Compass Credit, based in [...]
Last year was undoubtedly a year for the record books in both the financial and housing sectors, as the nation’s economic crisis pushed mortgage default servicing to the forefront of mainstream business news in America.
In its January issue, DS News, the only news source dedicated entirely to the mortgage default servicing industry, takes an [...]
Trend Data Shows More Focus on Compliance, Job-Specific, and Industry-Specific Training; Coaching and Informal Learning; and Increase in Outsourcing
Economic constraints have taken a toll on corporate training budgets. Bersin & Associates’ just-published 2009 Corporate Learning Factbook shows that over the last year, companies have cut training spending and staffing; changed training program priorities; moved [...]