Let me start this by stating that I am a registered Republican and would give President Bush a 7-8 on a score of 1 to 10, but... [Read More!]

When NASA first started sending up astronauts,
they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would
not work in zero gravity.


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DRESS CODE

It is advised that you come to work dressed according to your salary. If
we see you wearing $350 Prada sneakers, and carrying a $600 Gucci Bag,
we assume you are doing well financially and therefore you do not need a
raise.
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How do you account for the costs of using a part of your home for your business? First, you have to figure what percentage of your home is for business use. Let's say it is 10%.
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I'll never again pick up a penny without thinking of this.
Several years ago, a friend of her husband and mine were invited to spend the weekend at the husband's employer's home. My friend, Arlene, was nervous
about the weekend. The boss was very wealthy, with a fine home on the waterway, and cars costing more than her house.
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I bought three young pair of Canada geese for my
farm. To minimize the transportation trauma, I
drove to the breeder in East Texas to pick them
up myself. The trip back to the farm was about
5 hours, and although I shaded them in the back
of my truck as much as possible, it was hot that
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Two hunters from Wisconsin -- (supposedly a true story)
This is from a radio program, a true report of an incident
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Jake, the rancher went one day, To fix a distant
fence. The wind was cold and gusty; The clouds
rolled gray and dense.

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AUTHOR: William Feather (1889–1981)
QUOTATION: An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information you get.

JAYE'S BOOKKEEPING TIPS #6

Today we are going to talk about when they are fixed assets and when they are expenses. I can hear all of you now, "What's a fixed asset?"...
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Hello again!! How's the bookkeeping going? Find yourself with about a zillion little pieces of paper and still not sure what to do with them?
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I’m sure you are all now experts on debits and credits. Do you remember they are dr and cr? Don’t ask why debit, which has no “r” in it, is abbreviated dr. It’s one of life’s great-unexplained mysteries.

I promised we would talk about bookkeeping on the computer…..
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Are you all wandering around muttering is it a debit or a credit? Remember, debit accounts increase with a debit entry and decrease with a credit entry. Credit accounts increase with a credit entry and decrease with a debit entry. I promised you some samples, so here they are.



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Your husband has just walked in the door and informed you that he has quit his job and is going to start his own ecommerce internet-based business and you are the bookkeeper!! The only reason he is still breathing is....
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