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The theory, practice and implementation of government intervention to stimulate the economy and/or encourage certain societal behaviors has been an interesting journey for me personally over the past several years.
As a primer, I have been greatly influenced by some reading and writing I had done almost two years ago on the stimulus funding passed in 2009 labled the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. As we approach the three year anniversary of this...

This past fall we worked with several businesses in creating an annual financial budget for the 2012 fiscal year.
And now that many businesses have finalized their new fiscal year annual budgets and have loaded everything into their accounting software and set up their key performance indicators (based upon those annual budgets)... let me say, Let's do it again...

The Local Tax Enabling Act, signed into law in 2008 establishes changes to the Employer local tax wtihholding that will be effective January 1, 2012. Outlined below are the three (3) primary changes to Act 32 of The Local Tax Enabling Act.
1) Employers in PA must withhold local earned income taxes based upon the greater of the employees resident township or borough rate or the rate imposed by the township or borough of the employer's location. See the Municipal Statistics Tax Reports to...

I was blown away at an article I recently read in Money Magazine, Stop the Tuition Madness. The article took a very real and practical reality for many young families and showed that a college education experience does not have to look like it did when...