| 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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Not a millionaire? -
You're Lucky!
The IRS audited one of every
eleven millionaires in 2007. But
only one in 100 reporting $100,000
or less. Overall, the IRS looked at
over 1,385,000 returns of
individuals in 2007. That's 1.03%
of the total individual returns of
134.1 million filed in the previous
year. The audit rate was up by 7%
from the prior year.
The money you have
gives you
freedom. The money you pursue
enslaves you.
Percentage of American
voters who have concerns about
presidential candidates who are:
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Mormon |
50% |
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Evangelical Christian |
45 |
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Female |
22 |
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African-American |
17 |
The average public company
spends $584,000 per every $1
billion of revenue on audit fees.
Wow:
Nearly 40% of
teenagers, who are confident in
their ability to make ethical
decisions, believe lying, cheating
or violence are necessary to
succeed.
Arctic melting
accelerated in
the last summer, with sea ice at
half what it was four years earlier.
Vibrating alert:
Cellphone
addicts feel the buzz even when
there is none. the vibrations you're
feeling in the car, in your pajamas
or in the shower may be coming
from your head-bone! "As long as it
doesn't mean a tumor is growing
on my leg because of my
Blackberry, I'm fine with it," says a
cellphone user who keeps feeling
the false vibrations.
"Older people
shouldn't eat
health food, they need all the
preservatives they can get."
Canada sucks:
Canada leads the
world in sucking sweet maple syrup
from maple trees. It produces over one
million liters annually, which represents
more than 80% of total world supply.
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theGeneralist,
a one-page monthly
publication of the accounting firm of
A. R.
Kakhsaz Company, is in its 14th
year of providing information,
presented
fairly and accurately, from sources we
can depend upon and
trust.
Warren Buffet
(Part 3 of 5)
His company, Berkshire Hathaway,
owns 63 companies. He writes only
one letter each year to the CEOs of
these companies, giving them goals for
the year. He never holds meetings or
calls them on a regular basis. He has
given his CEOs only two rules:
Rule number one: Do not lose any of
your shareholders' money.
Rule number two: Do not forget rule
number one.
A team of
biologists
replicated
a bacterium's genetic structure
entirely from laboratory chemicals,
moving a step closer to creating
synthetic life.
Foreclosures
per number of
households in metro areas in the
third quarter of 2007:
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Stockton, Calif. |
1-in-31 |
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Detroit area |
1-in-33 |
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Riverside-San Bernardino |
1-in-43 |
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Fort Lauderdale, Fla. |
1-in-48 |
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Las Vegas area |
1-in-48 |
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Sacramento, Calif. |
1-in-48 |
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Cleveland area |
1-in-57 |
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Miami |
1-in-60 |
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Bakersfield, Calif. |
1-in-64 |
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Oakland, Calif. |
1-in-71 |
China's myriad
farms:
The average size of a Chinese
farm is less than one acre,
compared with 440 acres in the
U.S.
ACCOUNTANT:
Bachelor's degree
and 1 year experience. Usual accounting
duties. Contact
A R Kakhsaz Company,
20501 Ventura Blvd., Suite 310,
Woodland Hills, CA 91364.
Attn: HR Dept. or fax resume to
(818) 713-0980.
We see more in numbers
than just numbers...
Ali R. Kakhsaz, CPA, MAcc
www.arkcpa.com
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