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Donna Sammons


Instant Quotes

For nervous investors who bug their brokers for stock and option prices (and feel guilty about it), U.S. Quotes has a remedy -- a service that provides qu...  Read story

Surprise! Surprise!

Roseann Schwaderer and Marion McGrath are mad as hell, but there is not much they can do about it. In January, their printing and typesetting company, Ser...  Read story

Vacation Breaks

A company can trim its tax bill by purchasing a vacation retreat through a Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary Association.  Read story

Accounting For Growth

Accounting firms, large and small, are battling for the business of small business. What do these firms really have to offer?  Read story

Risky Business

With the right kind of self-insurance, you can trim as much as 20% off your health insurance bills.  Read story

Cashing In On Cds

Federally insured jumbo certificates of deposit have always been good investments -- they are safe, and they yield higher-than-average rates of interest. And...  Read story

Trimming Taxes Before Year's End

Start your planning now, before the tax year is over, by considering these 12 strategies.  Read story

The Wrong Remedy

Perloff Bros. Inc., a Philadelphia-based wholesaler of Tartan Foods, wanted to expand and had found just the way to do it. A small wholesale grocer in ups...  Read story

The Name Of The Game

The year was 1971, and Ralph Anspach, a San Francisco State University economics professor, was sitting in his Berkeley home, playing Monopoly with his se...  Read story

The Way To Universal Life

The last few years have not been happy ones for the life insurance industry. For decades, its main offering was the tradiional whole-life" policy, which c...  Read story

'unreasonable Compensation'

Unreasonable compensation is the IRS's way of telling you that you are paying yourself too much salary. Although the absence of concrete rules makes it diffi...  Read story

401(k) Plans: Approach With Caution

401(k) plans allow employees to put away a portion of their earnings for retirement and avoid taxation until the money is withdrawn. But the problems associa...  Read story

Mutual Benefits

The financial services industry has a new product -- mutual funds that enable corporations to capture aftertax profits of 9% or more on their idle cash.  Read story

Receivables Financing Goes Respectable

Today's economic climate has turned a last-resort form of financing into a legitimate business tool.  Read story

The Perils Of Cash Management

Ever since interest rates began going through the roof back in the early 1970s, the watchword in corporate finance has been "cash management." Everybody h...  Read story

Giving Credit

Affiliating with an existing credit union -- or starting a new one -- is an inexpensive way to boost fringe benefits.  Read story

Taxpayer, Spare Thyself

Estimate your 1983 tax liability by following these eight easy steps. Then slash your final bill by adopting the necessary strategies.  Read story

To Market, To Market

Procter Gamble veteran James McManus has an uncanny ability to analyze consumer behavior and parlay his findings into a variety of sucessful vent...  Read story

Uncle Sam Giveth, Uncle Sam Taketh Away

Back in 1981, Congress did a nice thing for the cause of technological innovation -- or so it seemed at the time. Included in that year's Economic Recover...  Read story

The Inc. 100

Surveying America's fastest-growing small public companies.  Read story

Evaluating The Valuators

How to pick an expert to value your closely held business and avoid appraisal problems down the road.  Read story