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December 3, 2014 

Jennifer Warawa – 2014 Most Powerful Women in Accounting

Jennifer Warawa V.P. and General Manager Sage Accountant Solutions Sage North America www.JenniferWarawa.com Education: Accounting Okangan University College; Strategic Marketing Management, Harvard Business School Professional Associations: IT Alliance ———————— Click here to see the other honorees of the 2014 “Most Powerful Women in Accounting” awards. ———————— What advice would you give to female college students...…

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December 3, 2014 

Heather Kirkby – 2014 Most Powerful Women in Accounting

Heather Kirkby Director Product Managementand Marketing: Intuit, Inc.Mountain View, CA www.Intuit.com Education: Bachelor Mechanical Engineering (Queen’s University, Canada), MBA (Harvard University) ———————— Click here to see the other honorees of the 2014 “Most Powerful Women in Accounting” awards. ———————— What advice would you give to female college students about the opportunities for women in the...…

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December 3, 2014 

DeAnn Hill, CPA, PFS, CGMA – 2014 Most Powerful Women in Accounting

DeAnn Hill, CPA, PFS, CGMA Owner: DeAnn Auman Hill, CPABaxter Springs, KS www.deannhillcpa.com Education: BBA, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS ———————— Click here to see the other honorees of the 2014 “Most Powerful Women in Accounting” awards. ———————— What advice would you give to these college students about the opportunities for women in the accounting...…

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December 3, 2014 

Rita Keller – 2014 Most Powerful Women in Accounting

Rita Keller President & CEOKeller Advisors, LLCDayton, OH www.RitaKeller.com Education: BS in Business Administration, Magna Cum Laude – St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. ———————— Click here to see the other honorees of the 2014 “Most Powerful Women in Accounting” awards. ———————— What advice would you give to female college students about the opportunities for...…

 Online Charitable Giving Increases 10% in Third Quarter

December 3, 2014 

Online Charitable Giving Increases 10% in Third Quarter

The latest Blackbaud Index shows that online giving increased 10.6% for the three months ending October 2014 as compared to the same period in 2013. Overall charitable giving to nonprofits increased 0.2% for the period.

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December 3, 2014 

Chicagoland Accounting Firms to Merge

Porte Brown has announced a merger with Brown, Kaplan + Liss (BKL). The Evanston-based public accounting firm is notably one of the largest such firms along the north suburban Lake Michigan shoreline.

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December 3, 2014 

Year-End Planning: It’s Not Just for Your Clients

Payroll practitioners spend the end of the year helping their clients prepare for year-end and the upcoming year. But year-end planning isn’t just for the clients they serve. It’s equally as important that they spend time prepping their own businesses as well. There are a few items that you will want to ensure makes your...…

Taija Sparkman

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December 3, 2014 

Don’t Let Politics Affect Year-End Tax Planning

With the November elections behind us, the Republican Party is in line to take control of the Senate, giving them the majority vote in both chambers of Congress for the first time since 2006.

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December 3, 2014 

7 Important Income Tax Tips

The end of the year is a time to reflect upon the past and plan for the future, including planning for income and estate taxes. Below, we present some important income and estate tax items to consider before the end of the year.

 Small Biz Lending by Banks Slowed by Obstacles

December 2, 2014 

Small Biz Lending by Banks Slowed by Obstacles

When a series of loan defaults in 2007 and 2008 plunged much of the world into a financial crisis, many of the "too big to fail" financial giants, the same ones that supplied the individual and business loans our economy relied on, were forced to complete