Getting out from under the debt pile
A guide to understanding credit card debt and ways to improve finances. It highlights average balances, rates, and fees, stresses the perils of minimum payments, and offers tips from experts and sites on monitoring credit, reducing balances, and closing unused cards to cut debt.
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Choosing an Enrolled Agent for Tax Prep
Enrolled Agents are IRS licensed tax specialists who represent taxpayers at all administrative levels. EAs must pass a rigorous two day tax exam or have five years IRS experience, complete 72 hours of continuing education every three years, and undergo background checks.
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Training investment boosts firm performance and profits
A study of 575 US publicly traded firms in 1996 1997 and 1998 shows firms spending $680 more per employee on training than average raised next year TSR by six points after controls. Top quartile training averaged 1595 per employee with 24 higher gross profit margins and employees earning 218 more than bottom quartile firms.
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American Society For Training & Development
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Mark van Buren
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