| A.
R. Kakhsaz Company
an accountancy corporation
Member
American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants
International associates:
Tavana & Co.
Chartered Accountants
Toronto, Canada
Tel.416-229-2221
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•Car
dealerships of the future, now: The North Scottsdale Auto Mall in
Phoenix, Arizona features: A dozen car brands under one floor. A
free racing-car museum that houses 11 of the 13 Indy 500-winning cars
owned by Roger Penske's teams and more. A cafe that serves
Starbucks. And two automobile test tracks. An observation deck
off the upstairs cafe overlooks a Land Rover test track with steep hills
and a waterfall. The Volkswagen display features a store selling
battery-powered Beatles for children and T-shirts for all. The
dealership is owned by Robert Penske's United Auto Group who spent more
than $100 million to build it.
•Early-childhood
activities that contribute to the learning gap
between white and minority children:
|
Black |
Hspc |
Asian |
White |
| Parents read to them six
times weekly |
68% |
75% |
78% |
87% |
| Attended preschool |
33 |
34 |
47 |
49 |
| Visit a public library |
49 |
49 |
68 |
56 |
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___ |
___ |
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| Watch TV weekly (average
hours) |
18 |
15 |
13 |
13 |
|
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___ |
___ |
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| SAT score (average verbal
and math) |
857 |
905 |
1083 |
1063 |
Hspc: Hispanic
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•Learn
a modern Chinese Phrase:
It's
dark in here.......
"Wao
So Dim"
•Gilbert, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona was the fastest-growing
community in the past two years, as the Southwest grew and the Northwest
and Midwest cities shrank.
•One in five American workers experienced at least a one-time
layoff during the past three years while two-thirds of them had no
severance package.
•Rising revenues of U.S. law-firms: Their revenues continued
to climb last year despite the economic slump, rising 8.5% to $38 billion
at the top 100 firms.
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•The last VW Beatle rolled off a factory in Mexico on
July 30, 2003. Volkswagon, Hitler's original "people's
car" ended after 68 years. 21,529,464 VW Beatles were
sold in all.
• theGeneralist, a one-page monthly
publication of the accounting firm of A. R. Kakhsaz Company,
is in its ninth year of providing information, presented fairly and
accurately, from sources we can depend upon and trust.
•Americans' largest asset id their homes - worth $14
trillion ($14,000,000,000,000). That's 92% more than a decade
ago. Mortgage debt on the U.S. houses totaled $6 trillion as
at the end of last year.
•Money laundering is for real in India: India's vast
network of legal money launderers use water, soap, scissors, tape
and ingenuity to get India's stressed-out paper money bills into
enough shape to be cashed in at the central bank. The launders
buy at a discount the dirty, worn-out and decaying two, five, 10,
and 20-rupee notes (worth between four and 50 cents) that no one but
beggars will accept from India's more than 300 million poor.
They will then turn in the mended notes to the Reserve Bank of India
to exchange them for full value. The central bank has more
than 5,000 employees checking to see if bills are suitable for
exchange. The aim isn't to put the bills back into circulation
but to make sure they don't fall apart as the bank processes
them. The rupee notes have the watermark of Mahatma Gandhi's
face. "I'm going to teach my son this trade," says a
launderer who's been at it for 25 years.
•Commercial dialysis centers have an 8% higher risk of
kidney-failure deaths than non-profit ones. Financial
pressures is being blamed as the reason.
•We have verified as
correct the spelling of the names of the top five California
gubernational candidates:
BUSTAMANTE Cruz M.
CAMEJO Peter Miguel
HUFFINGTON
Arianna
MCCLINTOCK Tom
SCHWARZENEGGER
Aronld
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•We see more in numbers than just numbers…
Ali R. Kakhsaz, CPA, MAcc
www.arkpca.com
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