The IRS has announced the mileage rates for 2009.
The mileage rate for business miles will be 55¢, for medical & moving miles 24¢, and 14¢ for charity miles. With the exception of the rate for charity miles, the 2009 rates are down slightly from those in place during the last half of 2008. An obvious reflection of the recent decrease in fuel costs.
For more information visit http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=200505,00.html
For some perverse reason, I decided to sit for the CPA exams. While that doesn’t necessarily sound like a big deal for a professional accountant (I currently hold the CMA & CFM certifications), it sure seems to be.
You see, the CPA exams are a series of 4 exams, totalling over 14 hours of testing, on subjects that I really don’t give a rat’s ass about and aren’t relevant to the needs of my clients. One exam is on auditing, which I never intend to do – not now, not ever. Blech. Yet, it is a 4.5 hour exam and it is mandatory if I hope to obtain this license.
I find that the older I get, the harder it is for me to stuff this information into my brain with any hopes of being able to recall it on demand. Maybe if the subject matter was even remotely interesting it would be different. Oh well. Today I take my second test which will put me at the half-way point on this adventure. My mantra for today: See it! Believe it! Feel it!
I suppose I’m weird in that I need intellectual challenge in my life. If it wasn’t this, it would be something else.
Wish me luck!
So, yesterday I was at a business networking luncheon where the guest speaker was a woman who “specializes” in website development and Internet marketing. Yesterday’s discussion was all about Internet marketing, but when asked about blogging, she made a comment that struck a nerve with me. She basically said, and I’m paraphrasing here, that the only good blogs are those used by businesses, and that personal blogs are the domain of perverts and child molesters.
My husband has a personal blog that he used to keep in contact with his friends and family while in Iraq. A friend of ours has a personal blog to discuss current events and politics. And here I am, starting a blog of my own. I’m pretty darn sure that none of us fit into her idea of what a personal blog is all about! Pfft, I say.
So, what’s up with that kind of attitude (from an alleged professional, nonetheless) about blogging anyway? Do we not live in America where we have the right to free speech, and isn’t a blog a wonderful way to foster the free exchange of thoughts and ideas?