Stock Carnival Ecstasy - April 23, 2013

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Welcome to the April 23, 2013 edition of Stock Carnival Ecstasy.In this edition of the carnival we start with an article by Bill Smith on checking your tax refund status online with the IRS. John Schmoll has a great Scottrade review on his blog Frugal Rules. Vytas looks at making a fortune when the trends change. Hope you like all the articles, bookmark, share on Facebook, Tweet on Twitter and come back next time.

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Bill Smith presents Checking Your Tax Refund Status After Using TurboTax 2013 posted at 2010Taxes, saying, "After filing your taxes with TurboTax 2013, you’ll immediately begin wondering about the status of your refund."

Bill Smith presents TurboTax Fights Filing Reform posted at 2011 Tax, saying, "TurboTax 2013 would have suffered a clear loss of revenue by implementation of this plan."

John Schmoll presents Online Brokerages I Use: Scottrade Review posted at Frugal Rules, saying, "There are many outlets for your choosing if you want to invest in the stock market. They all have their features that set them apart. Find the one that fits your needs for overall investing as well as investing for your retirement needs."

Bill Smith presents United Way Offers Free Tax Preparation To Qualified Earners posted at 2012 Tax - Free Tax Filing Options, saying, "It is that time of year again; time to get out your tax documents, records, and W2s and do your taxes."

Bill Smith presents The Benefits Of Using TurboTax 2013 To File Your Taxes posted at 2012 Taxes - Free Tax Filing Options, saying, "If you have never used Turbo Tax before, you need to consider filing your taxes with this computer program this year."

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Vytas presents Fortunes are made when trends change posted at Trend, saying, "Markets present a lot of opportunities for short term, intermediate term and long term traders when specific market conditions appear for those who use appropriate trading system for specific market conditions. It is of uttermost importance for those who monitor market swings and trends to capture a change in the trend at the very inception of it, enter position or line of positions and then take a good bite off the move which follows."

Bill Smith presents Top Tax Scams To Avoid With Turbo Tax 2013 posted at 2014 Taxes, saying, "Using Turbo Tax 2013 is a good way to avoid tax scams in the first place, seeing as how you can e-file your paperwork with confidence that it will go directly to the IRS."

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Fixed Asset Management Allows You To Exorcise Your 'Ghosts'

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When you’re assessing your company’s balance sheet and inventory it’s important to have the best fixed asset depreciation and tracking software that’s available. Finding out how much your equipment and property is worth is going to help limit your tax and insurance liability. Depreciation is a fact of life, as your assets age they are worth less in the resale and second user market meaning that as soon as you plug it in it’s worth less than you paid for it. As each year passes the goods are worth less therefore your tax liability in turn goes down. As many as 65% of companies misrepresent the value of their assets, paying tax on goods which would essentially be worth nothing on the resale market. 30% have such poor auditing and asset tracking that they are paying for ‘ghost’ items, that is property the company no longer owns but which still appears on the balance sheets and ledgers.

Inventory management software and barcode tracking systems offer effective depreciation and fixed asset management schedules which can alert you when items need servicing, licenses renewing and when hardware needs replacing due to superannuation as well as letting you audit your entire company so that your ledger is 100% accurate and up to date. With barcoding assets can be assigned to a particular room, corridor, floor or building meaning that if they are moved or go missing they can easily be accounted for. And written out rather that kept in ledgers.

Introducing asset tracking software can have a number of other benefits for your business not limited to:

Saving money insuring ‘ghost’ assets which remain on the books

Saving money on tax as you won’t miss depreciation deductions including Bonus Depreciation

Saving your time by making assets ‘swipable’ with a barcode reader which will provide your audit data in milliseconds

Asset management software is generally compatible with Sage and most of the other accountancy software and firmware as well as being able to produce reports in Excel, XML or HTML. The result is that a process such as auditing, which would have taken an age can now be done in a fraction of the time.

Of course the barcode can provide you with all sorts of other data too, not necessarily concerned with auditing, you can keep information such as date of purchase and service schedule, make and model number should you need spares, vendor contact information and maintenance records and who the property is assigned to within the company. When you need to find out about an asset, a room, corridor floor or building all you need to do is look it up. You can search for an ID, manufacturer, vendor, service engineer or date.

With all this data so easily accessed reporting and auditing for tax and account purposes as well as identifying lost, damaged and otherwise exempt hardware is simple.

Dan Cash is a features writer currently looking into inventory management facilities and depreciation software.

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Stock Carnival Ecstasy - March 10, 2011

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Welcome to the March 10, 2011 edition of Stock Carnival Ecstasy.This time we have some very good articles including one from Robert Moore about checking the status of your tax return with the IRS after you have filed. FIRE Getters takes a look at lessons from a successful investor. The Dividend Growth Investor likes Abbott Laboratories. And finally we have the Advantages of a Rollover 401k by Jackson. Hope you enjoy the material, bookmark, share, and come back next time.

Pinyo presents IRS Payment Plan: Help for Those Who Can’t Pay Their Taxes posted at Moolanomy, saying, "ax Day is rapidly approaching and you might find that you owe the IRS a tax bill that you can’t afford. So, whay can you do?"

Pinyo presents Automating Your Way To Wealth posted at Moolanomy, saying, "To build wealth you need not start out with a ton of money; however, you do need to start somewhere. Here's how you can do it automatically."

Harriet Gordon presents Trouble at the Workplace – Tips for Professionals to Cope posted at Human Services Degree.

Barbara Jones presents Change of Address: 10 Reasons Your Gas Bill is So High posted at Change of Address.

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Jeffrey Weber presents 4 Reasons Retail Credit Cards Are a Bad Idea posted at Credit Card Wisdom, saying, "Retail credit cards are simply a bad idea in most cases. They encourage overspending (and increasing debt) while charging sky high interest rates and adding yet another bill to worry about every month."

Jeff Weber presents Benefits and Disadvantages of Balance Transfer Credit Cards posted at Smart Balance Transfers, saying, "Getting a credit card with a 0% rate is undoubtly a good way to save money on interest, but transaction fees and the tempation to add debt with a new credit line can be a major issue for some."

Robert Moore presents Checking The Status Of Your Tax Refund | 2011 Taxes posted at 2011 Taxes, saying, "Checking the status of a return can accomplished through the IRS website."

Steve Norman presents Tax Codes for 2011 posted at Tax Codes, saying, "Our guide to the new tax codes in 2011/2012, particularly the tax code 747L"

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FIRE Getters presents How to Turn $5000 into $22 million? Lessons From One Successful Individual Investor posted at FIRE Finance, saying, "We can learn some basic tenets of investing from Anne Scheiber, who was an auditor at IRS and went on to become a multi-millionaire. Scheiber had a law degree, but because she was a woman, she believed that she had been thwarted in her desire to move up to a better job position at the IRS. She decided to get back by saving until she had a fortune and never give a penny of her profits to the IRS ..."

BST presents 7 Investments That Pay You Each Month posted at Best Stocks, saying, "Monthly dividend-paying stocks are different than quarterly-paying stocks in that they pay out dividends every month instead of every quarter."

Alexander presents Reporting Dividends on Your Taxes posted at Dividend Stocks, saying, "If you have earned money from dividends in the past tax year, you will need to report that income."

Dividend Growth Investor presents Abbott Laboratories (ABT) Dividend Stock Analysis posted at Dividend Growth Investor, saying, "PepsiCo is a dividend aristocrat which has increased distributions for 38 years in a row."

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Mike Piper presents Picking Mutual Funds: Don’t Just Look at the Winners posted at The Oblivious Investor, saying, "When researching mutual funds, many investors only look for characteristics common among winning funds. But that's only half the picture."

Tommy John presents What To Do With That Small Business Tax Refund That’s Burning A Hole In Your Pocket | 2010 Taxes posted at 2010Taxes, saying, "Paying some outstanding bills is the perfect way to utilize your small business tax refund."

Robert Moore presents Tips On Finding A Small Business Accountant posted at 2011 Tax, saying, "Finding the best business accountant can make a large difference in the success of your company."

Jackson presents Advantages of a Rollover 401k posted at 2009 Tax, saying, "Rollover a 401K to a traditional retirement plan to gain greater flexibility."

Judy Blackburn presents Mistakes To Avoid When Trying To Get Out Of Debt posted at Debt Consolidation, saying, "Changing your spending habits is very important in correcting your financial situation."

Steve presents 7 Investments Baby Boomers Should Consider posted at FastSwings, saying, "Retiring Americans might want to look at dividend reinvestment plans for their investing."

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Sun presents Emerging Market ETF: VWO or EEM posted at The Sun’s Financial Diary.

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