Archive for January, 2010

Bangladesh Welcomes Free Web Accounting Software

NolaPro, the web’s premier free accounting suite with over 100,000 users worldwide, has strengthened its Southeast Asian presence by procuring representation in Bangladesh, announced its publisher Noguska LLC.


Dana Gas posts Q4 loss amid write-offs

DUBAI, Feb 1 – Dana Gas posted a fourth quarter loss of 193 million dirhams, its second consecutive loss, after 2009 accounting write-offs and the impairment of some oil and gas assets


The ‘ayatollah of accounting’ hits back

Sir David Tweedie looks at the grubby windows of his office with a wistful smile. The chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board has noticed they still bear the fingerprints of the children he invited in a few months earlier to watch the Lord Mayor of London’s annual show from what is an excellent vantage point, along the parade route just up the road from St Paul’s Cathedral.


The International Accounting Standards Board has increased the frequency with which it meets its US counterpart, in an …

The International Accounting Standards Board has increased the frequency with which it meets its US counterpart, in an effort to meet a deadline of the middle of next year to create a single set of global standards.


National › Cigarettes make up 33% of accidental ingestion cases by young children

Cigarettes made up one-third of accidental ingestion cases involving infants and very young children at home in the year ended last March, accounting for the…


Major builders probed on Ozawa funds body

Prosecutors have questioned executives of three major contractors linked to a dam project in Iwate Prefecture over alleged accounting irregularities by Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa’s fund management body, according to sources close to the case. The executives, who underwent questioning on a voluntary basis, included the 75-year-old chairman of Kajima Corp., which was …


Shauna Kauth Joins Williams & Company

David Radke, president of Williams & Company, P.C., is pleased to announce the admittance of Shauna M.


Supreme Court considers accounting oversight panel

As part of its efforts to tighten oversight of internal controls and outside auditors following accounting scandals at Enron Corp., WorldCom and Tyco International, Congress created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.


TWO AREA BUSINESSES MERGE

NEWCOMERSTOWN — Advantage Tax Group LLC, a full-service tax and accounting firm headquartered in Dover, will assume operations of Mayhew Tax Service of Newcomerstown this month.


Inspired to Pick Up Where Others Left Off for Holocaust Survivors

Yanina Karlinsky and Irina Golub, business partners and friends from Belarus, have been soliciting clients of their accounting firm to raise money for the Ivker Fund.