Sands Bethlehem is Pennsylvania's second-highest-grossing casino, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. While the property, open since 2009, is 120 miles (193 kilometers) from Atlantic City, it is only 85 miles from New York City, a key Atlantic City “feeder market” from which Sands is easily accessible
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Mental accounting, or people's tendency to categorize their income and assets into nontransferrable buckets, is an interesting area of behavioral finance that can lead clients to make negative financial choices. Money is fungible and has no feelings or personality of course, but mental accounting causes
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This is in reference to “No CA's in Centre's new regulatory body for accounting professionals” (March 8). The news item stated that the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) will be a body run by retired bureaucrats. If that is the case, the bureaucrats will ultimately have to seek help from CAs as
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Johnson's team worked with an outside consulting group to shape the strategy of BDODrive, polling a collection of clients, prospective clients and non-clients on what they wanted and needed from their accounting firm. The response formed BDO's multi-pronged solution: robust, real-time financial data at
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As the North Pole warms to above-freezing temperatures in mid-winter, ice sheets melt and sea levels surge, the Washington state legislature has abandoned, for now, its plan to tax carbon dioxide emissions. The news is especially discouraging because Washington is the only state that's come close to
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