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<title>Fraud Risks for 2009 Engagements - By Gary D. Zeune, CPA</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:45:01 EST</pubDate>
<description>When Sam Antar was cooking the books for his company, he used a number of complicated accounting tricks to dupe auditors. But some tactics were simple.  Bernie Madoff may be the tip of the iceberg...</description>
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<title>Financial fraud -- accounting for criminals - By Kevin Voight, CNN</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:19:01 EST</pubDate>
<description>When Sam Antar was cooking the books for his company, he used a number of complicated accounting tricks to dupe auditors. But some tactics were simple.  Bernie Madoff may be the tip of the iceberg...</description>
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<title>Gurantee Your Profits  - By Gary D Zeune, CPA</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:05:01 EST</pubDate>
<description>Extraordinary guarantees give customers confidence in your product, generate new business and can even reduce operating costs</description>
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<title>Are clean opinions materially misstated?  - By Gary D Zeune, CPA</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:15:01 EST</pubDate>
<description>Warning! Reading this article will be painful. </description>
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<title>Measuring Nonfinancial Performance for Competitive Superiority - By Gary D Zeune, CPA</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:20:01 EST</pubDate>
<description>Analysis of financial statements do not always reveal all the factors that are involved in determining profitability. Many businesses are finding that nonfinancial performance measures, particularly those which address customer satisfaction, can show a direct causal relationship between business procedures and goals.</description>
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<title>The Breakfast Club - By Roger Blackwell</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:20:01 EST</pubDate>
<description>The diary of a daily discussion group in a white-collar prison.  So a priest, a national rodeo champion, a Harvard M.B.A., and Richard Hatch from Survivor are discussing economic policy over stale bran flakes in prison…</description>
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<title>Are Immaterial Amounts Ever Material? - By Gary D. Zeune, CPA</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:20:01 EST</pubDate>
<description>According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the average organization loses 6 percent of revenue, or $9 per day per employee, to fraud, theft and abuse. Think about how many dollars in sales it takes to recoup that. So why don’t we realize the magnitude of these losses? They are scattered all over the financial statements.</description>
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<title>Embezzling from MCI easy, ex con says - By Joe Napsha, Pittsburgh Tribune Review</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:20:01 EST</pubDate>
<description>Walter Pavlo Jr., jailed for embezzling $6 million from MCI Communications Inc. in 2001, said his bosses' lax supervision made it easy to steal. "As long as they received information they thought was good, they were pleased," Pavlo said Wednesday prior to telling members of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Association of Fraud Examiners about his role in fraud at MCI.</description>
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<title>Who needs to be president when you can give speeches? - By Ralph De La Cruz, Lifestyle Columnist, Sun-Sentinel.com</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:45:01 EST</pubDate>
<description>Forget the old phrase. There is no gift when it comes to gab. Last week, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani got a whipping in the presidential primary in the Sunshine State and immediately dropped out of the race. OK, so it was humiliating...</description>
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