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September 19, 2008

Federal standards for internal controls

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The OMB provides guidelines in management oversight. “To ensure senior management involvement, many agencies have established their own senior management council, often chaired by the agency” lead management official, to address management accountability and related issues within the broader context of agency operations.”Relevant issues for such a council include ensuring the agency” commitment to an appropriate system of internal control; actively overseeing the process of assessing internal controls, including nonfinancial as well as financial reporting objectives; recommending to the agency head which control deficiencies are material to disclose in the annual FMFIA report; and providing input for the level and priority of resource needs to correct these deficiencies.

To meet these objectives, management is responsible for developing and maintaining internal control activities that comply with the following COSO-based standards:
- Control Environment
- Risk Assessment
- Control Activities
- Information and Communications
- Monitoring

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August 1, 2008

Download Free Debt Reduction Calculator for Excel, a simple tools for Debt Management

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This free debt reduction calculator is could be used to manage your debt and personal loans. The free Debt Reduction Calculator is a Microsoft Excel workbook that helps you plan how to reduce credit card debt, auto loans, student loans, and other debts. The spreadsheet lets you choose from various debt reduction strategies, including the popular debt snowball strategy (paying the lowest balance first) and the highest interest first strategy.

Easily print a debt snowball payment schedule to help you keep track of your progress. The download contains two files. One is formatted to allow you to list up to 10 creditors. The other allows you to list up to 20 creditors. No installation is required, and the file contains no macros, no spyware, and no adware. Save your results by simply saving a copy of the spreadsheet. Help is provided within the worksheets and cell comments.

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Download Free EZ Loan Manager 2004 8.00, your Personal Loans Management

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Looking for free software who could easily manage and track your loans and mortgages? EZ Loan Manager 2004 (Version 8.00) is a money saving program that provides you a very easy and flexible tool to choose, evaluate, manage and track your loans and mortgages. The program is for anyone with fixed, adjustable or biweekly loans, or like to save interest money with early extra payments. The program allows you to analyze various combinations of loan amounts, interest rates, loan terms, etc. to determine the best possible loan for your budget. This program is excellent for anyone who wishes to keep track of loans and mortgages, or see the effect of making extra payments on the life of a loan and the total interest paid. This program could help you to choose the right loan and save thousands of dollars through careful loan planning and managing.

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July 8, 2008

Download Monthly Financial Close Process Checklist

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The purpose of this checklist is to document the activities performed as part of the monthly financial close process at a company. For each step covered in this checklist, users are encouraged to document the responsible person, date due, and whether the task has been completed and reviewed. This tool has been updated to include additional general financial close procedures and steps related to recording fixed assets.

Financial areas addressed in this checklist include:
- General Close Procedures
- Cash
- Investments
- Accounts Receivable
- Prepaid Expenses
- Other Current Assets
- Fixed Assets
- Accumulated Depreciation and Amortization
- Other Assets
- Goodwill
- Intangible Assets
- Accounts Payable
- Accrued Expenses
- Capital Lease Obligation
- Other Current Liabilities
- Equity

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