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Oh .. this was an interesting “Heads Up” from the Propellerhead.tv Blog…

… before you go break out the plastic have a look at the Fontifier website which produces a TrueType font from a sample of your handwriting. If you like what you see you can download the font onto your PC for the very reasonable sum of just $9.00. The only proviso is that you need a printer and a scanner but the process is very simple. Just download and print out the template sheet, fill it out, scan it and send it back and the free sample is generated in just a few seconds and if you don’t like it have another go.

For $9.00 USD, I suppose I could get “HART Fontified” .. (yes, that’s my real printing)

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Top Five Reasons Why A Business Might Want To Use A Petty Cash Fund

1) The owner does not have to be available 24 hours to write a cheque for every little expense all of the time
2) To have the ability to make change for your customer wanting to pay an invoice on account
3) To reimburse an employee replenishing office supplies they had purchased for the business
4) To systematically keep track of all cash purchases in one logical place
5) To give an employee greater responsibility in helping running the affairs of the business

Top Five Reasons Why A Business Might NOT Want To Use A Petty Cash Fund

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What Accounting Software Do You Use?

(feel free to add your Specific Version that you use)

I thought I would see what types of accounting systems you are using out there in the real world. I have suggested a dozen choices, if you do not know the specific version .. but I would be interested if you could click on the “Add An Answer” and let me know exactly what software and version you are using.

Thanks!

In the past year I have been engaged to do monthly accounting and bookkeeping for several clients. Although my rates are higher than a normal part-time bookkeeper that a company may hire, sometimes it makes sense to hire your accountant do also perform interim financial statements. Because I am familiar with the work and detail needed when comes time to perform the Year End Financial Statements and Income Tax Returns, it is “BETTER” and “EASIER” getting information while it is fresh in everybody’s head.

Overall, professional fees for the year might be a little highe, but some clients can appreciate the benefit of having their accountant “in the loop”. I make sure (or at least try to the best that I can) that the client is “COMPLIANT” with all reporting requirements. This would include reminders for:

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Default Block GateCrasher Trojan Horse

I’m not sure what that is, although my Norton AntiVirus picked up an error message today.

Well .. there it was … the I.P. address in plain view .. so I checked it against the Map…

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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia describes social bookmarking as:

an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize (see folksonomy) a personal collection of bookmarks and share them. The use of social bookmarking is growing in popularity.

This new part of the web started around late 2003, when del.icio.us was launched. It quickly gained popularity, and as many similar services appeared online, tagging became widespread in some other online services. Yahoo agressively persued the trend, launching My Web 2.0 in mid 2005, and aquiring del.icio.us on December 9 of the same year. Thanks in part to Yahoo’s aggressive entry into the field, the practice of social bookmarking has moved closer to the mainstream.

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Taxpayer Alert - You do not have to pay taxes or fees to the CRA on lottery or sweepstakes winnings!

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is warning the public to beware of an email scam in which individuals are informed that they have won a large sum of money in a lottery or sweepstakes, usually from a foreign country.

There are many versions of the scam, but the general concept remains the same: The victim receives an unsolicited email or regular mail from a legitimate-sounding financial institution claiming it has a bank draft from a foreign sweepstakes company that is payable to him or her. The email states that, to receive the prize, the addressee must first pay part of the taxes allegedly owed on the prize amount.

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Wow. I know.

2 Votes - one of them was mine .. 1-800-HART Poll #2 .. after 10 days ..

So, SCRAP that lousy 1-800-HART Poll #1 … I’m not going to even wait until the month is over!! Down with the old garbage and up with the new 1-800-HART Poll #2

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As an employer, you have to remit employer payroll deductions (usually) every month by the 15th of the following month.

Payroll deductions include the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) contributions, the Employment Insurance (EI) Premiums, and the Income Tax deduction for the employee, plus the employer’s share of the CPP Contributions (employee’s CPP x 1) plus the employer’s share of the EI premimums (employee’s EI x 1.4).

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Well, not on this blog .. sorry .. utoh .. are you experiencing problems with this blog too??

I hope not .. I have moved 5 blogs now from my provider host #2 to my provider host #3. I think I can safely document the details of how I accomplished this. I did not take any screen capture pictures, and there is no audio or video accompaniment to this blog entry.

Blogs that were moved were as follows:

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