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Hello!! "Welkom Cuzzins" is the SA Master Page, providing links to all the other South African based projects as a Site Map, Historical Timeline and Communication portal. Click on the 'Follow' button in the top right hand corner of the page if you want to join the SA Geni cuzzin community. We've also got a Facebook page for SA Geni users as a Newsletter idea that you can check once a month or so - to keep everyone updated on what we're all working on, or to share interesting SA resources we've found.
1) If you're new to Geni, and you want to know what more there is, & who to ask; & whether you can even risk making mistakes, take a look at:
Not so Brief Welkom Cuzzins Brief
2) And our own very comprehensive reference page, compiled by June is here:
SA Genealogical Reference Centre
Part 1: Accepted use of Geni fields & explanation of SA name and numbering customs. (General Profile Guidelines - Naming Conventions etc; Abbreviations and Symbols used in SA Genealogy; Place names; SA Vital Statistics)
NB: MARRIED SURNAME RULE OF THUMB FOR SA SETTLERS: - Before 1800 only British women tended to use married Surnames. All other SA females have their Birth Surname filled into this field as well. - After 1800 the British govt in SA means Married Surnames as well as Birth Surnames for all women.
South Africa - Profile Guidelines For information regarding the completion of Profiles
Part 2: Resources & records available for SA Genealogical Research ( Databases; Types of Records Available; Professional Research Assistance; SA Genealogical Societies; Starting dates for SA Church Registers; Glossary of Afrikaans to English words)
See Also our Afrikaans version: The SA Gemeenskap 1652-2011
3) Then when you're ready to find out about:
Working With Projects
- Starter Kit for How To Add Text and a Photo to a Project
- Starter Kit for How to Create A New Project & Template
Hello - we are the Cuzzin Curators who help on the Geni SA tree (Scroll down for more people who help on the SA tree):
- Sharon speaks ENGLISH & Afrikaans, & some embarrassingly rudimentary Zulu.
- Working mostly in the French Huguenot area, & is at the moment starting up the amaXhosa & amaZulu trees.
- Judi speaks AFRIKAANS & English, Netherlands and Flemish.
- She is interested in working on Bloedrivier/Bloodriver and the Anglo Boer War/Anglo Boere Oorlog. Sports, and all history subjects.
- June speaks ENGLISH but understand quite a bit of Afrikaans!
- June is interested in the English Immigrants to Southern Africa and early Rhodesian Pioneers.
- Alastair speaks ENGLISH.
- Working in 1820 British Settlers and German Settlers.
- Daan speaks AFRIKAANS, ENGLISH and German and will never die in any Spanish country ( hablo un pocito Espanol)
- Lea Herbst speaks ENGLISH & AFRIKAANS.
- Working on Lourens, Herbst, Duckitt, Versfeld, Steyn, van Niekerk lines. Can also help with other surnames.
- John speaks ENGLISH and AFRIKAANS and a little conversational XHOSA
- Interested in assisting with understanding the workings of Geni, with a view to preserving and linking 'the common folk' (meaning all those ancestors who ventured forth in search of a better life across the world) into the "Big Tree". Works in areas: "Germans in Kaffraria", "1820 Settlers", "Early English Settlers" "SA Railways" & with lines of: Robertson, Caldwell, Kannemeyer, Vercueil, Ballantine, Sparkman, Hamilton, Miller and a host of lines with their roots in the Cape and Eastern Cape.
- Donovan speaks ENGLISH & AFRIKAANS.
- Working on Penaluna, Walsh, Graham, Meyer lines. Can also help with other surnames.
- Pam Karp ENGLISH speaking.
- Not specifically a South African Curator, but willing to help users get started, do merges and help with projects: researching Jewry that migrated to South Africa and Australia
- Anne-Marie
- isn't specifically a SA curator, but often pops her head in on our FaceBook page to offer help from the Netherlands, willing to help here on Geni too. Can read and understand Afrikaans.
PLEASE ADD ALL THE SA PROJECTS YOU CREATE OR COME ACROSS HERE. You can log your interests and areas of Research here
Progenitors & Settlers in SA
- ALL SOUTH AFRICAN PROGENITORS An Umbrella project about all people involved in populating and colonising South Africa. It is all-embracing and aims to have no political influence or connotation. Add ALL Progenitor profiles you come across here first, and then also to the relevant sub-set projects below:
- See also South African Progenitors not on Geni or unconnected
- Progenitors from Southern Africa:
- Progenitors from Europe:
- South African Settlers - Portuguese
- Dutch Settlers of South Africa includes Flemish
- French Huguenot Settlers in SA
- South African Settlers - French
- Mapping The First Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope
- 1820 British Settlers in South Africa
- South African Settlers- British (other than 1820 Settlers)
- The Children's Friend Society
- German Settlers in South Africa
- Other Progenitors::
- Chinese Settlers
- South African Settlers - Indian
- South African Slaves
- South African Settlers - Nordic (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland)
- South African Settlers - Other European Austria; Greece; Hungary; Italy; Poland
- Croatian Settlers'
- South African Settlers Swiss
- South African Settlers - Jewish
- South African Settlers --Other Countries Russia To include in time Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South American Countries, United States and any other countries that crop up!
- Shipwrecked Castaways on the SA Coast
- British Ships to South Africa in the 1800's
- The Children's Friend Society - Master South African List
- Royal Philanthropic Society Includes listing of children who went to South Africa.
SA Names Projects
- Barnato
- Botha
- Bree(dt)
- Broodryk
- de Buys
- Churchill
- Cracknell
- Dalebout / D'Alebout
- de Savoye
- Dadswell
- Doubell
- du Plessis
- Durand
- Hart
- Henning
- Hulley
- Maharaj
- Marais
- Mare / Maree
- Mbedzi
- Nel
- Oosthuizen (Afr) * (Eng)
- Oppenheimer
- Pautz
- Pieters
- Pitt
- Poisson
- Potgieter & Potgieter
- Janse(n) van Rensburg
- de Smidt
- Steyn
- Venter
- van der Merwe
- Van der Walt
- Weile
Hall of Fame or Infamy
- Governors of the Cape Colony
1600 - 1800
- Voyages of Discovery and Colonization
- Mapping the First Arrivals to the Cape of Good Hope
- VOC Officials
- Slaves
- French Huguenot Settlers in SA
- The Griquas
- Chinese Settlers
- Missionaries in Southern Africa
1800 - 1902
- Nguni Peoples 1700s & 1800s
- Die Groot Trek /The Great Trek
- Battles
- Germans in Kaffraria
- 1820 British Settlers
- South African Settlers - Indian
- Diamonds & Dust; Gold & Ganja
- The Anglo Boer War 1899 -1902
1900 - Current
- South Africans in WWI
- WWII North African Campaign
- Women's Day March 9 Aug 1956
- Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom
- SA Rugby Hall of Fame and Mandela, Pienaar & the 1995 Rugby World Cup
- The Comrades Marathon
Travel SA with Geni - linking the people to the places
- 'Cuzzin Country' and Blog
- South African Towns and Cities - inc. Founders & Origins
- Battle of Bloodriver 16 December 1838
- Battle of Isandlwana Impi YaseSandlwana 22 January 1879
- Fort Napier - South African Internment camp for German nationals during World War I
- French Huguenot Settlers in SA- section on Huguenot Farms
- Germans in Kaffraria
- The Griquas
- Robben Island
- SA Genealogical Reference Centre Hypertext link to pdf document
- South African Stamouers/Progenitors - ZA Locations Project in development stages - the objective could be to define a South African location list for the location fields in Geni.
- Witsand (White Sands) and Port Beaufort
- Pilgrim's Rest
- Kaapsehoop
Reference & Help Projects
- SA GENEALOGICAL REFERENCE CENTRE is there to help with SA genealogical nitty gritty; naming conventions and language usages. See break down of coverage above
- The South African Community since-1652 2011 Reference centre in Afrikaans.
- Found a mistake in the SA Genealogy? Irregularities in SA Genealogies / Geslagregisters
- Need help to fix a tree issue?: Tree Confirmation Set up as a place to ask for help on establishing links on the South African tree.This project has not been used enough – users need to take advantage of it.
- Looking for help to confirm if part of the tree is correct:Afrikaners is Plesierig: Saam Stamboom Bou
- Track profiles not linked to parents or family in the 1600 - 1800 period:Tree Issues
- Making that connection
- South African Stamouers/Progenitors - ZA Locations Project in development stages - the objective could be to define a South African location list for the location fields in Geni.
- FAMILYSEARCH - Dutch Reformed Church Records have added a large selection of the Registers of the Dutch Reformed Church Record from 1690-2007. These are not indexed, but Lea Herbst has made a start on explaining which registers can be found where in A Guide to FAMILYSEARCH which is and admirable document of enormous help.
- Cobie Botha speaks English and Afrikaans.
- Working with: Botha, Van der Walt, Raubenheimer and Venter.
- Willem Breet speaks English & Afrikaans?
- Working with: Breet; van Rooyen; Labuschagne; Fourie; Pieterse; Bakker; Shaw
- Caroline Pienaar (Balona) speaks ENGLISH & Afrikaans
- Works on the French Huguenot tree; offers to help in writing/putting facts in a succinct, chronological and logical manner in English if anyone needs help in this area.
- Tony de Buys speaks ENGLISH
- Wynand du Plessis speaks AFRIKAANS
- Therese Ferreira speaks ENGLISH
- Michelle Alicia de Jager (Terblanche) speaks AFRIKAANS, English and German
- "Ek is bereid om te help waar ek kan met die volgende bome waaraan ek werk. Abel Taylor (SV), Thomas Kemm (SV), Johannes Hermanus Kotze, Salomon (Solomon) Stephanus Terblanche, Adam Barnard."
- Craig Sheldon speaks ENGLISH.
- Working with: Sheldon, Fahrenfort, van Driel, Hitzeroth, Borcher, Brink, Burgess, Dryden, Doubell,Greyling, Hampshire, Howard, Jones, Petterson, Sasman, Swanepoel, Wood
- David Prins speaks ENGLISH. Not based in South Africa. Offers help with Early Jewish settlers in SA
- Carolle Marquard Help with Marquard family; Malan / Beyleveld heritage. I have docs. here too on Murrays, Rexes.of Knysna which ought be added some time as well as Malans and Marquards. .Access too to de Wet/Petersens/Moltenos and others. So if you need some Snail participation, glad to help ENGLISH.
- Norman Alexander
- Heather MacGregor ENGLISH
- Brian Nelson speaks ENGLISH and Afrikaans, & works on the Nel, Zeederberg, Vorster, Botha & Brits lines.
- Guillaume Gerber is prepared to help where ever he can. He doesn't have a particular area of expertise, but does have many years of experience.
- Louis Scholtz AFRIKAANS, Deutsch, ENGLISH, Française en NEDERLANDS. Is bereid om te help waar ek kan. Fokus op Scholtz, Gouws/Gous, Roos, Heineman(n) en Immelman families, Duitse / Franse stamouers, Groot Trek en Anglo-Boereoorlog. Kan help met die intepretasie en / of vertaling van teks in die bogenoemde tale.
- The First Fifty Years Project
- SA Genealogy
- French Huguenot World Diaspora
- African Kings
- African Queens
- Africa Egypt
- Emigration from Europe Ports of Departure
- All That Glitters - MINING the world
- International War & Military Portal
- Ebook History of South Africa under the Administration of the Dutch East India Company (1652-1795) Vol I (See under Photos and Documents)
- Ebook History of South Africa under the Administration of the Dutch East India Company (1652-1795) Vol II
- The Gold Miners - A.P. Cartwright
- The Historical Monuments of South Africa - J. J. Oberholster
- 'Dictionary of South African Place Names' - free online book
- Ngwato Royal Family of Botswana


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
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Number and Operations examines the three main categories in the Number and Operations strand of Principles and Standards of School Mathematics (NCTM) -- understanding numbers, representations, relationships, and number systems; the meanings of operations and relationships among those operations; and reasonable estimation and fluent computation. The course covers the real number system, place value, the behavior of zero and infinity, the meanings and models of basic operations, percentages, and modeling operations with fractions, often with the aid of concrete, physical models that enhance understanding. It also examines basic number theory topics, such as factors and multiples, as well as divisibility tests, at both practical and abstract levels. Accordingly, parts of the Number and Operations course may be more challenging than other Learning Math courses.
The course consists of 10 sessions, each approximately two and a half hours long. Each session contains a half hour of video programming, problem-solving activities provided online and in a print guide, and interactive activities and demonstrations on the Web. The 10th session (choose Video 10, 11, or 12, depending on your grade level) explores ways to apply the concepts of number and operations you've learned in your own classroom. You should complete the sessions sequentially.
Session 1: What Is a Number System?
Understand the nature of the real number system, the elements and operations that make up the system, and some of the rules that govern the operations. Examine a finite number system that follows some (but not all) of the same rules, and then compare this system to the real number system. Use a number line to classify the numbers we use, and examine how the numbers and operations relate to one another.
Session 2: Number Sets, Infinity, and Zero
Continue examining the number line and the relationships among sets of numbers that make up the real number system. Explore which operations and properties hold true for each of the sets. Consider the magnitude of these infinite sets and discover that infinity comes in more than one size. Examine place value and the significance of zero in a place value system.
Session 3: Place Value
Look at place value systems based on numbers other than 10. Examine the base two numbers and learn uses for base two numbers in computers. Explore exponents and relate them to logarithms. Examine the use of scientific notation to represent numbers with very large or very small magnitude. Interpret whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals in base four.
Session 4: Meanings and Models for Operations
Examine the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and their relationships to whole numbers and integers. Work with area models for multiplication and division. Explore the use of two-color chips to model operations with positive and negative numbers.
Session 5: Divisibility Tests and Factors
Explore number theory topics. Analyze Alpha math problems and discuss how they help with the conceptual understanding of operations. Examine various divisibility tests to see how and why they work. Begin examining factors and multiples.
Session 6: Number Theory
Examine visual methods for finding least common multiples and greatest common factors, including Venn diagram models and area models. Explore prime numbers. Learn to locate prime numbers on a number grid and to determine whether very large numbers are prime.
Session 7: Fractions and Decimals
Extend your understanding of fractions and decimals. Examine terminating and non-terminating decimals. Explore ways to predict the number of decimal places in a terminating decimal and the period of a non-terminating decimal. Examine which fractions terminate and which repeat as decimals, and why all rational numbers must fall into one of these categories. Explore methods to convert decimals to fractions and vice versa. Use benchmarks and intuitive methods to order fractions.
Session 8: Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning
Begin examining rational numbers. Explore a model for computations with fractions. Analyze proportional reasoning and the difference between absolute and relative thinking. Explore ways to represent proportional relationships and the resulting operations with ratios. Examine how ratios can represent either part-part or part-whole comparisons, depending on how you define the unit, and explore how different representations affect a ratio's behavior in computations.
Session 9: Fractions, Percents, and Ratios
Continue exploring rational numbers, working with an area model for multiplication and division with fractions, and examining operations with decimals. Explore percents and the relationships among representations using fractions, decimals, and percents. Examine benchmarks for understanding percents, including percents less than 10 and greater than 100. Consider ways to use an elastic model, an area model, and other models to discuss percents. Explore some ratios that occur in nature.
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Explore how the concepts developed in this course can be applied at different grade levels through case studies of K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 teachers (former course participants), all of whom have adapted their new knowledge to their classrooms. Select Video 10 for K-2 teachers, Video 11 for 3-5 teachers, and Video 12 for 6-8 teachers.
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The Columbus Dispatch - April 26, 2012 12:04 PM
Gov. John Kasich seems to support Republicans and Democrats striking a deal that would take House Bill 194 off the books and the ballot this fall.
"I encouraged that they go back to the table and try to work something out, come up with a little better product," Kasich said today of the ongoing saga related to the GOP's elections bill last year that is now subject to a referendum. Kasich signed HB 194 into law. "I think it's possible for us to come up with a good election reform package, but let's maybe sit down one more time, let them sit down one more time, listen to what people have to say. It's not an issue I was intimately involved with. It's the leaders of the legislature who said let's take another crack at it, and I think that's good."
But Kasich said if lawmakers repeal their own bill, then it should not be subject to a referendum. His suggestion seemed to include the scenario in which lawmakers don't agree to have early voting three days before the November election and Republicans repeal the bill anyway.
There appears to be a connection between Democrats who insist on holding the referendum and its potential to drive Democrat-leaning voters to the polls in a presidential election, he said.
"If they're going to repeal this I don't know why it would be on the ballot," Kasich said. "For what purpose then? If the law's already repealed why would you put it on the ballot? To try and use it as a political leverage? That's not a good thing."


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Accounting Industry News
Here is the doorway to hundreds of articles, publications and resources that, from a professional perspective, practicing accountants will find priceless. Regardless of the area of specialization, this site offers up technical help, operational guidelines, industry information, breaking news and a toolbox of strategies to make running a business just a bit simpler.
Americans More Focused on Personal Finances
Americans More Focused on Personal Finances
By Isaac M. O'Bannon
Despite continued minor improvement in the economy, most Americans are still worried and are increasingly focusing on improving their personal finances, according to a new report.
The survey, commissioned by Financial Finesse, a provider of workplace wellness programs, identified a significant increase in the number of employees proactively focusing on improving their finances, reporting a 166% increase in log ins by employees that have had access to Financial Finesse's Online Financial Learning Center since 2010.
Return usage also jumped 73% from 2012 to 2013, indicating employees are approaching management of their finances as an ongoing process rather than a series of decision-making points.
Among the report's key findings:
- As employees focus more on their finances, they are recognizing their financial shortcomings and developing a greater sense of urgency around improving their finances. Forty-two percent indicate they are concerned they will not reach future financial goals, versus 35% in 2012.
- At the same time, a lower percentage of employees report being stressed about the economy or distrustful of financial advisors. This demonstrates employees are focusing more on taking responsibility for their own finances rather than worrying about external factors they cannot control. Forty-three percent cited the stock market and U.S. economy as a source of stress, and 22% are unsure who to trust with their finances, down from 47% and 24% in 2012, respectively.
- With the increased urgency, employees overall are becoming more proactive about their financial planning and making improvements in areas that support their long-term financial security. A greater percentage of employees are taking steps to improve their financial situations on a regular basis. Forty-seven percent have taken a risk tolerance assessment versus 44% in 2012; 36% say they rebalance their investment accounts versus 31% in 2012; and 47% are maximizing all available federal tax credits and deductions, up from 44% in 2012.
- Financial Finesse's Think Tank Director, Greg Ward, says that although the firm has seen generally consistent improvement in employees' financial behaviors over the past few years, 2013 marked a critical turning point in employees' level of commitment to improving their finances.
Liz Davidson, CEO and founder of Financial Finesse, also points out that employees aren't the only ones experiencing what she calls a "financial awakening." Davidson says, "Society as a whole is beginning to put more emphasis on financial security and financial education." She adds, "We're seeing more and more providers of these types of services come into the marketplace, and the number of employers implementing workplace financial wellness programs is rising significantly."
According to a 2013 AON/Hewitt study, 80% of employers said they would likely focus on the financial well-being of their employees. A similar study also conducted by AON/Hewitt just a year earlier found that only 32% of employers planned to make this a priority.
Davidson notes that inquiries from employers considering offering financial wellness programs to their employees increased 275% from 2012 to 2013. She attributes the jump to an increase in employers that recognize the benefits of employee financial wellness programs which have been proven to reduce financial stress and improve health, productivity, and pay and benefits satisfaction. She also says there is a major trend towards employers recognizing that the key to helping employees retire comfortably starts with helping them to better manage their money so they can save more for retirement.
Both Davidson and Ward believe that this is the beginning of a new era. Ward sums it up, stating that the latest research is consistently showing that "employees are adapting en masse to a new 'free agent' economy where they must take responsibility for their own financial security rather than relying on financial support from their employers or the government."
Source: CPA Practice Advisor, April 10, 2014 (http://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com)
Social Selling Dos & Don'ts
Social Selling Dos & Don'ts
By Lauren Barack
Marketing jargon is the quickest way to turn people away from you on social networks, says Crystal Thies, also known as the "LinkedIn Ninja." Working with advisors and those in other regulated industries, Thies advises her clients to avoid the head-on approach. A subtle style works best, particularly with affluent investors who are savvier than you think about filtering out anything that remotely whiffs of a sales pitch.
Instead of linking directly to a prospect, she suggests linking to a CPA or another professional you know to get a view into their network. Once connected, take part in ongoing conversations — but comment in a way that shows expertise, without pushing your product. Do not suggest a meeting.
"It's more educational in nature as opposed to sales," says Thies, based in Covington, KY. "How you comment can position your expertise, so you're social selling to their network, to the people you might want to have as clients."
Get Out And Engage
Once you've found a network or connections that can potentially lead to a new client or two, start chatting — but not about business. In fact, pushing out pre-approved marketing content is actually just as bad as spam, regardless of what your firm tells you. You need to join a conversation naturally or launch one yourself, says Amy Mcilwain, president and founder of the Denver, CO.-based Financial Social Media, which helps financial services and insurance clients create social media profiles.
Mcilwain believes some automated content can be helpful, but there has to be a mix. Broadcasting pre-timed messages is a one-way street. To really get a potential client's interest — and ideally their business — think about mingling as you would at a cocktail party. Make small talk and post something personal, but professional in tone.
"When someone comments, comment back," says Mcilwain. "Don't just ignore it. Join the conversation. It won't seem unusual and aggressive if you are connecting to a friend."
Think Quality Not Quantity
Running to build friends, connections and followers is the immediate plan of most who join social networks. But doing so strategically is a better move, says Kevin Nichols, director of marketing and social media with the The Oechsli Institute, which finds that early adopters to online social selling were more selective in their relationships.
Nichols understands the instinct to pile on the numbers but having timely activity on your network is more crucial than the number of followers, which can actually be "smoke and mirrors," he says.
"Don't focus on the quantity," he says. "It's really about the quality of those followers, and having a presence on the network."
Bad Impressions Last Forever Online
Barbara Giamanco warns advisors to stop trying to make a deal until a potential client seems interested. Like an etiquette maven, she is a big believer in the power of a good first impression — particularly online.
As founder of Social Centered Selling Giamanco works with tech, insurance and financial services firms. She says bad marketing behavior online can haunt an advisor forever.
"When I go to a networking event I don't expect to close a sale," says Giamanco. "You don't pitch. Online it's even worse. At a networking event, if you annoy 10 people by shoving a sales brochure in their face, they may avoid you, but it's just them. Online? You can end up on other sites with a sign that says 'Beware.'"
Source: Wealth Management.com, March 11, 2014 (http://wealthmanagement.com)
New Business Valuation Tool Designed for Accounting Firms
New Business Valuation Tool Designed for Accounting Firms
By Isaac M. O'Bannon, Managing Editor, CPA Practice Advisor
Financial analysis developer Sageworks has released a new web-based business valuation system called PinPoint. The program is designed to help accounting, private equity and valuation firms determine an accurate and legally-defensible value for private companies.
Sageworks also offers ProfitCents, which is designed to offer financial reporting for small businesses and high net worth individuals.
Pinpoint will evaluate projections based on income, asset and market approaches, allowing the valuator to produce a value from each approach and weight them accordingly based on the type of valuation they are doing.
Approximately 70 percent of privately held businesses will be put up for sale over the next 10 years as the baby boomer generation reaches retirement age. As a result, demand for valuation services is growing. In addition to their use in preparation for business sales and mergers, valuations are also in-demand for use in litigation, documentation related to estate planning and divorce, for compliance-oriented engagements such as financial reporting and corporate reorganizations, and for planning-oriented engagements for taxation and personal financial planning.
"There are a variety of valuation calculators out there, but up until now you had to pick between robust, defensible calculations and more convenient, cloud based software that allowed for multi-user collaboration," said Scott Ogle, chief executive officer of Sageworks. "PinPoint fills this gap in the market and allows users to calculate commercial-grade, regulatory-compliant valuations online and, in doing so, makes collaboration across the firm much easier."
Sageworks PinPoint provides valuations that are compliant with AICPA SSVS No. 1 and is the only web-based valuation product to do so. PinPoint is compatible with third party software, including Quickbooks, CCH and Excel, in order to allow seamless integration with existing data.
Additionally, PinPoint users benefit from access to Sageworks' real-time private company database, which allows users to benchmark performance of a business against similar businesses from across 1,400 different industries.
SOURCE: CPA Practice Advisor, February 11, 2014 (http://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com)
Accounting Firm Leaders and Staff See Ethics Differently
Accounting Firm Leaders and Staff See Ethics Differently
By Michael Cohn
Leaders of accounting firms may view the ethical environment differently from their staff members, according to a new study.
The study tests some potential reasons why firm leaders and non-leaders or professional staff may have varying perspectives on the firm's ethical environment, and also found that even those in leadership positions may benefit from mentoring.
The researchers used a questionnaire that was filled out by 139 accounting professionals employed at CPA firms. The study, co-authored by Amy Hageman, an assistant professor of accounting at Kansas State University, along with Donna Bobek of the University of Central Florida and Robin Radtke of Clemson University, will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Business Ethics focusing on accounting ethics and 'tone at the top'.
In previous studies, Hageman and her fellow researchers demonstrated that leaders and non-leaders at public accounting firms have different perceptions of their firms. They found that while most accounting professionals perceive the ethical environment of their firm as quite strong, the partners, principals and directors of the firm perceive the ethical environment as even stronger than the other staffers.
The major finding in the most recent study was why this difference arises. "We found that when non-leader accounting professionals believe they participate in shaping and maintaining the ethical environment and/or have a strong organizational fit with the accounting firm, they are more likely to view the ethical environment as strong and to view it similarly to firm leaders," Hageman said in a statement.
Because non-leader accounting professionals would include recent college graduates, Hageman said the research shows the importance of students taking business ethics courses, which Kansas State University's College of Business Administration offers.
"If ethics education were absent from the college curriculum, it could severely impact the ability of these non-leaders to be aware of the importance of ethics in accounting and business," she said. "We believe that it is critical for soon-to-be-graduates who are weighing various job options to carefully consider firm leadership and their perceptions of the overall ethical environment and culture of the firm, as 'tone at the top' has been shown to be a critical factor in firms' ethical attitudes."
Hageman said other studies by the research team have found that a firm's ethical environment has an important influence on ethical decision-making. The same person placed in a different environment may make a very different decision based on his or her perceptions of what constitutes ethical behavior within the organization.
"It is very important for anyone thinking of joining an organization to make sure that it has strong ethical values and the leadership within the firm acts ethically and supports organization efforts to encourage ethical behavior," she said.
The study also found that it is important for firm leaders to receive mentoring. While firm leaders were much less likely to have received formal or informal mentoring in the previous year, Hageman said having received such mentoring was related to how leaders perceived their firms' ethical environment.
"On the other hand, non-leaders were more likely to have received mentoring, but it was not related to their perceptions of the firm's ethical environment," she said. "This emphasizes the importance of firm leaders continuing to receive mentoring throughout their career. We may not think of someone who is a leader in an organization as needing a mentor, but our results showed that leaders who continued to receive such support had a more positive view of the firm's ethical environment."
The study is part of a stream of research that Hageman, Bobek and Radtke are undertaking on the ethical decision-making of accounting professionals and the importance of a firm's ethical environment.
Source: Accounting Today, January 23, 2014 (http://www.accountingtoday.com)
It is the Services, Stupid!
It is the Services, Stupid!
By Greg Weismantel
From my observation there appears to be a major vision problem with CPA firms: no formal strategic plan for growth other than mergers and acquisitions.
Considering that any strategic plan must identify the firm's "driving force" for its services and markets before its executive committee can logically determine where it should be going, what they normally all want is "growth," and most firms believe growth is their driving force. But is it really?
Recognizing the current driving force is one thing, but identifying what the driving force should be in the future is even more important in today's CPA firm environment. This takes time and management work, the most difficult work there is.
Tax, accounting, audit, wealth management, and financial business advisory are all specialist work. If you look at every CPA's Web site, large and small, you will find that they all highlight the exact same services. Some package them differently, but the brand remains private label no matter who implements it. This creates an enormous task of keeping and maintaining current clients, since the sole differentiators are now price and rapport. Both can be fleeting.
One of the most challenging situations for any service-oriented firm or company is that you do not own the service like a company can own a product. There are normally no proprietary segments that only your firm can deliver. Thus, you are a phone call away from gaining new business, or losing current business. The main strategic issue for firms is how to insulate their current clients from competitors as best they can while appealing to new clients and markets.
A small CPA firm can master the Tax Code as well as, or better than, the Big Four; and a sharp, knowledgeable one-man firm can master the art of audit, become certified, and perform as well as, or better than, a regional mid-level firm. A local financial advisory firm run by sharp MBAs can devise a wealth management program as well as any.
CPA firms have allowed their services to become commoditized, but unfortunately you cannot brand a commodity. After the great recession of 2008 to 2010, clients were scrambling to reduce costs, and huge five- or six-figure expenses for tax and audit became further exposed when a competitor offered to do the same work with the same credibility for $50,000 less! Sound familiar?
The easy way out for a managing partner of a firm is to have a strategy that facilitates growth by saying that "growth" is the driving force of the firm.
The real problem in this strategic decision-making process is that firms usually do not know and communicate what their current "driving force" is, and what the driving force should be to grow in the future. If "growth" is truly the driving force, then all a managing partner must do is to keep gobbling up other firms and grow by cannibalization, however, that works in both directions.
Understanding the function of strategy and your firm's driving force are perhaps the most difficult responsibilities for a managing partner and a firm's executive committee to master. It is truly the most difficult of management work in strategic planning, but the most important, on which the firm must focus for continued success.
Choosing the improper driving force for the firm automatically implies that the tactics and metrics to achieve the mission of the firm will be improper for the direction where your team needs to go, and the strategic plan will falter.
If you think growth is really driving you, then just keep gobbling up other firms, but indigestion occurs when the partners and managers of those firms gobbled up, depart and take their clients with them. So "growth" is normally not the driver, but it could be a segment of the strategic plan.
Since current services are now often seen as a commodity, the two most obvious strategic driving forces for the firm's future are "clients" and "new services rendered". Both are related, but both require different tactics to achieve the growth desired.
However, here's where the CPA firm usually gets in its own way. If the firm chooses "clients" as its driving force, this normally means that the partner who is accountable for that particular client or brought it with a merger (we'll call him or her Partner A), must manage other partners and managers of the firm when they have services which Partner A's client could utilize, and Partner A does not want to give up any accountability over his or her client. That's accountability!
If the firm chooses "new services rendered" as its strategic driving force, this means that the managing partner must add new services that are not currently shown on the Web site, and have experts to deliver and implement them with the same Partner A above who is reluctant to give up the accountability over the client to anyone but himself. Accountability again!
Normally I see the managing partner not wanting to fight that battle with the partners accountable for the client, instead sticking with "growth" as the driver and attempting to grow through mergers and acquisitions. The better strategic decision is to focus on growing the firm with services that the clients all need and want, with the driving force being clients or new services rendered.
These two strategic driving forces bring value-added services to tax, audit and wealth management clients, and help keep the firm vibrant and growing. How? They provide an extension of value to commoditized services, while insulating current clients from competitors who only offer services in tax, accounting, audit, wealth management and financial business advisory. Plus, you can brand it!
Just keep in mind this axiom of business strategy: If the planned strategy of a company or firm is correct, any number of tactical leadership mistakes will not impact the overall success of its mission.
Greg Weismantel is president of Epic Group, a management consulting firm and advisor on strategy for small and large firms and companies. It partners with clients to identify their primary driving force while recognizing strategic opportunities of their markets, products and services that will deliver the highest value for ongoing growth and sustainability.
Source: Accounting Today, January 6, 2014 (http://www.accountingtoday.com)
Westfield Accounting Firm Treats Clients Like Family
Westfield Accounting Firm Treats Clients Like Family
By Jackie Lieberman
WESTFIELD, NJ — Louri Rivero Borr of Rivero, CPA, in Westfield has clients who come from Manhattan. Though the city boasts plenty of accountants, they take the train to Westfield and cross the street to her office on Central Avenue just to see her.
Entire families—three adult generations, in several cases—continue to trust Borr and pass her on to their parents and children over the years.
Licensed in both New Jersey and New York, Borr has over 20 years of experience. Her firm provides individuals and businesses with accounting services; performs audits, reviews and compilations; provides tax services and advice; and provides broad-based financial plans. They are a member of QuickBooks Professional Adviser program and can help with accounting software needs.
In addition to these services and talents, Borr also speaks Spanish.
But what makes her firm truly special is the individual attention she gives each client, whether it's picking up the phone to check in throughout the year, meeting up for lunch or working one-on-one in her office.
"I really enjoy the closeness that you get when you connect with people," said Borr. "I try to get to know everybody really well. I put myself in their place."
Borr practices what she calls "the art of being a good accountant."
"Taxes aren't scary. Come. I'll hold your hand. I'll walk you through it. You don't need to know every tax law. That's why I'm here," she says to them.
"If you know the laws and you use them correctly, you can save people a lot of money," she explained. But it takes more than knowing the laws—it takes getting to know the client. By spending time with each person, she finds out details they may have left out on their own.
"A lot of times things come up when we're talking," she said. "I get information and can help them save money or plan better for next year."
Borr provides advice for families when they reach times with large financial costs, like college planning and retirement with and other life events, including divorce and death.
What's most rewarding, said Borr, is when she teaches clients to help themselves.
"Some accountants don't share their secrets," she explained. "I want to help you become a financially savvy person. When I see someone becoming more independent, doing better, that's a good thing."
Source: TheAlternativePress.com, Westfield, New Jersey, December 25, 2013 (http://thealternativepress.com)


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Perhaps you missed these thought provoking medical briefs this past year. Some were front-page news while others were buried in back of a paper or appeared only in medical newsletters. They are worth considering and could affect your heart health.
COX-2 inhibitors as a last resort
Don't eagerly pop that Celebrex without exploring safer alternatives. According to a March article in "Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association," other lines of more conservative treatment should be tried first due to increased heart attack and stroke risks seen with some popular COX-2 medications.
Initially, try exercise, weight loss to reduce stress on the joints, heat or cold, and physical therapy. If those measures don't work, add acetaminophen (Tylenol) or aspirin.
If you still don't experience improvement, a third choice would be non-selective cyclo-oxygenase inhibitors such as ibuprofen. Researchers say, "In at risk patients, use of COX-2 inhibitors for pain relief should be limited to patients for whom there are no appropriate alternatives, and then, only in the lowest dose and for the shortest duration necessary."
Fish oil and statins equals less heart attacks
The prestigious Lancet reported a Japanese study involving 18,645 high cholesterol men and women who added fish oil to statin therapy experienced substantial protection against heart attack.
After four to six years of observation, heart disease patients who took the statin plus fish oil had 19 percent fewer major coronary events than those in the control group. They also had less unstable angina but interestingly, there was no difference in fatal coronary events or sudden cardiac death between the two groups. However, fish oil capsules cost little, don't require a prescription, and are safe when used with other medications. Check with your health care provider.
Depression is bad for your heart
Depressed older patients are 50 percent more likely to die or be hospitalized for heart problems and should be treated for both conditions, concluded a team of researchers from the University of North Carolina and Duke University Medical Center.
The results published in the Archives of Internal Medicine followed a group of 200 stable heart failure patients over a three-year period. They were given a battery of psychological tests to assess their symptoms of depression. Forty-six percent demonstrated critical symptoms. During the three years, 26 percent died and 48 percent were admitted to a hospital for heart problems.
The psychological tests were matched with a new blood test, b-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) that measures chemicals discharged into the bloodstream by the heart tissue when it cannot pump efficiently. High levels of BNP were expected to predict negative outcomes, but even when that was factored in, Andrew Sherwood, PhD, a medical psychologist at Duke, found the symptoms of depression were independently associated with heart failure.
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Stem cells could soon be used to mend hearts from cardiomyopathy and heart attack.
Research from two successful clinical trials were presented at the Innovation in Intervention Summit at the March 2007 meeting of the American College of Cardiology.
In one trial, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) repaired damage to the heart muscle caused by heart attack. MSCs, found in bone marrow, generate bone, cartilage and connective tissue. They are drawn to the heart after an injury, where they repair the damage and improve the heart's ability to pump.
The second study used a different type of stem cell called autologous skeletal myoblasts (ASM), removed from the patient's own muscles. Catheters were used to deliver ASM to the hearts of 23 patients with severe heart failure. At six months, patients who received ASM showed distinct improvement in heart function and quality of life.
A week after these clinical trials were reported, British scientists announced they had grown human heart valve tissue from stem cells found in bone marrow. Trials of these heart valves in sheep or pigs will begin later this year.
If all goes accordingly, researchers will grow entire hearts using the same process of implanting stem cells on collagen scaffolds. Time frame? These designer hearts could be available in three to five years.
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In the past, security bugs in the Xpdf PDF viewer have endangered Linux systems time and again, and projects that use Xpdf code are also affected.
Security researchers at Secunia have discovered three vulnerabilities in Xpdf 3.02. All three are located in the stream.cc file. The first bug which affects the "DCTStream::readProgressiveDataUnit()" function can lead to memory corruption on indexing an array. The other two bugs, one of which is in the "DCTStream::reset()" function and the other in "CCITTFaxStream::lookChar()", can lead to heap-based buffer overflows. In all three cases, a carefully crafted PDF file is required. If the attacker can trick a victim into opening the file, the attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code.
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As Sugar Ray, Gin Blossoms, Smash Mouth and other bands whose heyday was solidly in the '90s rocked on, the sloping lawn came alive with waving arms, dancing bodies and raised drinks.
The nostalgia must have weighed heavy on the area because it was a packed concert full of thousands.
The entire bowl was full by the time Fastball, known for songs such as "The Way" and "Out of My Head," took the stage to open the show and I was forced to sit in the only spot with any open space: the very rear of the venue.
We weren't alone back there, either. More people ditched their chairs and found somewhere to stand while the music played, and others hit the beer lines so much that they snaked through the audience. (Naturally, the bathroom lines later did the same.)
Vertical Horizon followed Fastball with songs such as "You're a God" and "Everything You Want" as well as a new song from the band's upcoming album.
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Smash Mouth's set was a bit disappointing. Fans left in droves during the set, singer Steve Harwell couldn't match McGrath's grinning enthusiasm and the band can't beat Gin Blossoms' near-perfect songcraft.
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