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Categories: "Professional"

Professional Welcome

Welcome to the professional section of my blog. The blog entries in this section are intended to cover subjects in my primary areas of expertise, particularly accounting and information technology. Design, consulting and business related topics are some of the other areas I have focused on in the past. My resume can be reviewed at http://www.tylerhosting.com/dbell/resume to see what projects I have been involved with in these areas.

The categories are not broken down further, but the following are some of subjects of interest in each of the areas that I anticipate discussing.

Accounting
Taxation, consulting, non-profit

Business
Manufacturing, inventory control

Consulting
Small business

Financial Planning
Individual financial, retirement, and tax planning

Information Technology
Web development, database development, software, project management

Tax Accounting
Individual and business tax law, preparation, and planning

The efforts in this section will also be focused on identifying solutions in these areas than discussing personal concerns. When I consolidated my blogs into one I decided to leave most of the older log entries of a personal nature in a separate section for now. 

ACA: 2014 Observations and Updates

December 2nd, 2014
Discussion of the Affordable Care Act calls for a different format from previous O&U posts since ACA is essentially a new filing requirement. While there has been a considerable amount of change (updates) during the evolution of the law, understanding what the current requirements is the most important thing. That more »

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Amending for Education Credits

November 10th, 2014
The focal point in tax preparation of returns with education expenses has traditionally been on the tax-free nature of scholarships and grants. However, when practitioners are preparing returns for students, or parents of students, they… more »

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Partnerships: 2014 Observations and Updates

October 31st, 2014
The last entry began what might be a series of articles on "Updates and Observations" related to the upcoming tax season. This time I'm dealing with Partnerships. It's been said that one learns most by teaching others, so I hope to learn more about partnerships and upcoming tax issues.. more »

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Trusts: 2014 Observations & Updates

October 16th, 2014
This is a review of Trust news so far for 2014, based on what I've bookmarked or saved during the year. The year has been a somewhat quiet one for trusts. There has been some clarification of NIIT for trusts, material participation, and what it means to be a real estate professional as a trust. One thing that may be a highlight is the clarification of what is included in the 2% miscellaneous deductions, and a mention of required unbundling for that purpose beginning in 2015. Considering those issues, you may want to do some end of year tax planning. more »

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External Table Data in Access

October 3rd, 2014
I'm constantly coming up with new ideas for projects, articles, and ways to do things. One way I tried to keep up with that was create text files with those notes. Many years ago I used Microsoft's cardfile.exe, but it no longer exists in current versions of Windows. Then, a few years ago I tried out the AZZ Cardfile program. Shortly after that I created my own card file database similar to AZZ Cardfile, named simple Simple Cards. more »

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Using the Windows Taskbar

September 29th, 2014
Some time ago I wrote about how to organize your desktop to speed switching between opened files in Excel. Of course, you can easily switch between programs in Windows 7 and above by clicking the taskbar icon at the bottom of the screen. Here's another… more »

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There's more to retirement than .. retirement

September 10th, 2014
While maintaining my knowledge of tax laws and various business concepts, I've been dipping into financial planning somewhat consistently. While I've learned a lot about financial planning and its tangential fields of expertise, I've noticed that… more »

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