Payroll Accounting 1994

Book Description

This digital document is an article from The Tax Adviser, published by American Institute of CPA's on September 1, 1995. The length of the article is 1133 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Social Security Domestic Employment Reform Act of 1994 revised the withholding and employment tax requirements for individuals that hire domestic workers. If annual wages exceed $1,000, the employer is required to pay and report payroll taxes though withholding is not required. Exemptions exist for family members and workers under 18. When the taxpayer is not considered an employer because the taxpayer does not exert control or direction, there are no payroll tax requirements.

Citation Details
Title: The nanny tax.
Author: Helen Young
Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1995
Publisher: American Institute of CPA's
Volume: 26 Issue: n9 Page: 530(3)

Distributed by Thomson Gale

Average customer rating:

Payroll Accounting, 1994 Edition
J. Lowell Mooney Paula Y. Mooney
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIHIHQ

Average customer rating:

Tolley's Payroll Handbook: 1994

Manufacturer: Tolley Publishing Co Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Non-US Legal Systems | Perspectives on Law | Law | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0854598049

Book Description

So, you've been headhunted for a new job, but you don't feel you've achieved all you can where you are right now? Or maybe you are thinking of quitting your permanent job to go freelance? Perhaps you're just completely bored and frustrated at work and wonder whether it's time to go all out to find another job. How on earth do you weight it all up? There's so much to work out, and this is such a familiar dilemma for many of us. But who do you turn to for advice?

What you need is impartial and authoritative guidance. Should I Stay, Should I Go? provides just this. It will help you work out where you are in your career, and whether it's time to head for the door or buckle down and work at moving up where you are. The book uses examples and checklists, to show you how to analyse your options logically and thoroughly and make the decision that's right for you.

Book Description

This work powerfully asserts the idea that rather than using pesticides, the key to helping crops resist attacks from pests is to improve their strength through natural processes. Many of industrial agriculture's fundamental principles for fighting disease, in particular the reliance on pesticides and fertilizers, are explained and convincingly challenged and a new set of guiding principles for an ecological agricultural system are presented as a genuine alternative to the widespread use of chemicals.

Customer Reviews:

Clears up a lot of misunderstandings.......2007-07-15

Good book for understanding how agriculture really works. You can get the gist of it in a few overview pages or delve deeply.

Book Description

Scattered and Filtered Solar UV Measurements provides comprehensive information about the scattered and filtered solar UV environment, the techniques to measure this radiation and the resulting UV exposures to humans. The incidence of skin cancer and sun-related eye disorders can be reduced by the minimization of exposures to UV radiation. For this to occur, a greater understanding of the solar UV exposure to humans for varying conditions and in different environments is necessary. Accordingly, this book aims to quantify, understand and provide information on the filtered and scattered solar UV.
This book is aimed at students and new researchers in the field of solar UV and environmental measurements; however there is sufficient detail to provide a valuable reference for the experienced researcher. Researchers and students in atmospheric sciences, health sciences, environmental monitoring, photobiology and skin cancer prevention will find this monograph useful.

Book Description

Spanning a diverse range of materials from metal alloys through to polymers, this book brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in the formulation, characterization and application of powdered materials. Contains a general mathematical background and a step by step guide through the equations necessary for thorough comprehension and quantitative appraisal of different materials and heterogeneous structures The book is intended for final year undergraduate and post graduate students of materials science and engineering and those researchers and industrialists working with powder processing techniques. Topics covered include:
* Essence of Quantitative Approach
* Characterization of Powder and Processing
* Particle Sizes
* Particle Shapes
* Distribution of Particle Sizes and Shapes
* Least Square Method
* Applied Science and Engineering
* Packing of Powder
* Powders and Short Fibers
* Fabrication of Powder
* Thermodynamics
* Sintering
* Fluidity of Powder
* Stereology

New Quantitative Approach To Powder Technology

Average customer rating:

New Quantitative Approach To Powder Technology
Yoshimoto Wanibe
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N67AAO

Book Description

These proceedings contain the lectures of the IUTAM Symposium dedicated to the one-hundredth anniversary of Boundary Layer research. About 40 experts of this field gave lectures on their most outstanding results in this topic. This volume is unique in that a scientific collection of articles of this calibre covering this subject will probably be the only one of its kind for the next decade. All articles have been peer reviewed. Topics covered include classification, definition and mathematics of boundary layers; instability of boundary layers and transition; boundary layers control; turbulent boundary layers; numerical treatment and boundary layer modelling; special effects in boundary layers.

Stability and Transition in Shear Flows (Applied Mathematical Sciences)

Average customer rating:

Stability and Transition in Shear Flows (Applied Mathematical Sciences)
Peter J. Schmid , and Dan S. Henningson
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books

Mathematical Analysis | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books

Mathematical Physics | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books

Mechanics | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

Accessories:

ASIN: 0387989854

Book Description

This book is a detailed look at some of the more modern issues of hydrodynamic stability, including transient growth, eigenvalue spectra, secondary instability. Analytical results and numerical simulations, linear and (selected) nonlinear stability methods will be presented. By including classical results as well as recent developments in the field of hydrodynamic stability and transition, the book can be used as a textbook for an introductory, graduate-level course in stability theory or for a special-topics fluids course. It will also be of value as a reference for researchers in the field of hydrodynamic stability theory or with an interest in recent developments in fluid dynamics. Since the appearance of "Drazin & Reid", no book on hydrodynamic stability theory has been published. However, stability theory has seen a rapid development over the past decade. Direct numerical simulations of transition to turbulence and linear analysis based on the initial-value problem are two of many such developments that will be included in the book.

Book Description

Captain Glenn F. Howell kept a detailed account of his activities in China for 62 years. His journals now make up 202 leather-bound volumes—one of the largest sources in existence, perhaps the largest, of servicemen's observations of service in China during that country's struggle to oust one power and come to grips with a new one between World War I and II.

This work presents Howell's diary from June 6, 1920, to September 23, 1921, during which time he commanded the naval gunboat USS Palos on the Yangtze River. First comes a biography of Howell, an overview of Chinese history from 1800 to 1920, and a history of the United States military involvement in China during those years. Howell's time as commander of the USS Palos is divided into three sections. Preceding each, the editor comments on the nature of the upcoming diary entries. Howell covers a range of topics, including the Chinese people, various important locales (e.g., the Three Gorges), making official visits, (his first as a captain), officer-enlisted man relations, opium, the steam navy, people who influenced him (S. Cornell Plant and Captain Joseph Miclo, skipper of the Meitan), missionaries and other foreigners in China (including U.S. military retirees), and "trackers" (China's human beasts of burden.)

Average customer rating:
Gunboat on the Yangtze: The Diary of Captain Glenn F. Howell of the USS Palos, 1920-1921
Glenn Howell
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MUA1AM

Average customer rating:

Misguided attempt to defend the indefensible

A lucid, informative biography

Does this man, Theron Raines, have any sense?

Rising to the Light: A Portrait of Bruno Bettelheim
Theron Raines
Manufacturer: Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
Medical | Professionals & Academics | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
Social Scientists & Psychologists | Professionals & Academics | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0679401962
Release Date: 2002-08-20

Book Description

In 1983, after years of trying to persuade Bruno Bettelheim to write his autobiography, Theron Raines, his friend and literary agent, himself undertook to tell the life of the renowned but often controversial child psychologist. With no thought of writing a conventional biography, Raines began a series of interviews in which Bettelheim reflected at length upon the major moments—triumphs, crises, and tragedies—of his extraordinary life. Rising to the Light is the fascinating synthesis of these encounters and of Raines’s interviews with counselors, teachers, and former students from the world-famous Orthogenic School.

Here is Bettelheim’s sudden passage from a life of wealth and luxury in Vienna to the appalling brutality of Dachau and Buchenwald, where his intellect helped him survive the horrific conditions that often broke down a prisoner’s personality. His understanding of the parallels between the extreme situation of a concentration-camp prisoner and the inner world of a disturbed child would shape him as a therapist. Here is his voyage from the Old World to the New, and his professional ascent in Chicago, where he developed a total therapeutic milieu for children unable to survive emotionally at home or in any other school. Though he had no specialized training, he was uniquely qualified by his uncanny insights into children and his deep Freudian and post-Freudian convictions about human nature and behavior. Based on his success as a clinician and teacher, he would go on to become a best-selling author. But toward the end of a long life, Bettelheim would succumb to a stroke and to a devastating depression intensified by his feelings of uselessness when he was no longer able to do the work that had been his daily salvation for so many decades. Raines, who visited him twice in his last weeks, also gives us the days just before the puzzling suicide of this man who had endured and built so much.

Despite his demonstrably tireless commitment to children, Bettelheim’s reputation was blemished after his death by attacks on his writings and his unorthodox clinical methods, in particular his use of physical discipline in the psychotherapeutic setting. Raines’s conversations with Bettelheim have much to tell us about this bitterly disputed aspect of his legacy, and they reveal a complex man who had to explore the boundary between compassion and brutality.

Rising to the Light is a portrait of a great teacher; it gives us a more direct line of sight into the Bettelheim enigma than any other book is likely to provide.

Customer Reviews:

Misguided attempt to defend the indefensible.......2007-10-22

That Theron Raines was Bettelheim's friend and literary agent makes one understand that this will not be a critical biography. And Raines is an elderly man who cannot be expected to overturn his longheld beliefs. But I was still deeply shocked and offended that Raines scarcely addressed the major issue of Bettelheim's life.

Bettelheim's entire career was based on his "expertise" in autism. But in fact, Bettelheim lied all the way through his career about his experience and his results. His "success" with autistic children blew away like dust the second anyone from the outside world took a good hard look at it. His Refrigerator Mother theory of autism has harmed and is still harming countless families around the globe-- because even though scientifically discredited, Bettelheim's writings were so widely promoted that they are still in print around the world. Mothers in France are still being told today, in 2007! that they caused their child's autism-- why? because the brilliant Dr. Bettelheim said so. But Raines never mentions the harm Bettelheim did and is still doing. It looks like deliberate blindness.

Raines mentions autism only a few times in the book and obviously knows nothing whatever about it; he even calls people with autism "autists"-- that says it all. His feeble attempt at defending Bettelheim's lack of happy results at the Orthogenic School amounts to quoting Karen Zelan, a psychoanalyst who worked with Bettelheim there and who still believes mothers cause autism, as saying that providing any kind of follow-up results would go against Bettelheim's therapy for the children. (How convenient.) But then Freudian thinking cannot be disproven, as it is faith-based.

For a true look at Bettelheim, read Richard Pollak's thoroughly well-researched book instead.

A lucid, informative biography.......2004-08-09

After all the angry attacks that followed Bettelheim's death and after the unmerited smearing of his reputation as a thinker, it is a relief to read his balanced biography. Raines wrote book worthy of its subject, a book that does justice to Bettelheim as an educator and therapist. The book does not delve into many details of Bettelheim's private life and because of that is very cogent. On the other hand, none of the important events are omitted, none of the difficulties and contradictions glossed over. The portrait that emerges is of a man who, like Maria Montessori and Janusz Korczak, transformed his own personal tragedy into a life-restituting effort for those who are most vulnerable: children. A most helpful book to read for anyone who would like to understand Bettelheim's attitude to children is "A Good Enough Parent."

Does this man, Theron Raines, have any sense?.......2004-08-08

As a former student of the O.S., I feel entitled to interrupt Raines' eulogizing about Bettelheim with a few questions:
1) Why is it so easy for this Raines guy to downplay, whitewash, sugarcoat etc., the repeated beating of emotionally disturbed children and teens? I mean if he was being beaten by Bettelheim in the name of a very distorted theory (namely that beating and shaming children will help them overcome their fear of inner aggression), would he so easily rationalize that abuse was good for him?

2) Why is this guy so impressed by how beautiful the Orthogenic School looks? Why does this prove that Bettelheim has the best interests of children at heart? I sure didn't care about fine china or pretty tiles while someone was repeatedly pounding on my body to get me to eat...and by the way depriving me of seeing anyone privately in sessions for the first 4 years of my stay there.

I think Theron Raines needs a course in how to relate compassionately to children.

Also, I want to offer an alternative explanation for why Bettelheim created the Orthogenic School. Raines includes Bettelheim's explanation at face value. First a look at Bettelheim's explanation. Bettelheim says he based his idea for the O.S. on his stay in a Nazi concentration camp. When Bettelheim saw how this sadistic milieu so completely destroyed personalities of sane people, he realized that he could rebuild destroyed personalities by creating a nurturing, understanding milieu. Well, this explanation sounds so nice at face value. However my sense of the underlying truth is that Bettelheim hid his deeper motives possibly from himself and certainly from others. He actually created an environment with certain rather horrific similarities to the concentration camps. Of course, not nearly as horrific. But, remember, the population that came to the O.S. already had weakened or damaged or destroyed personalities, plus they were children...so the Orthogenic School's cruel, sadistic side didn't have to be so blatant to wreak havoc on these emotionally fragile people. I think Bettelheim was enraged when he saw weakness or vulnerability in children. In fact, I think he was drawn to autistic children because he admired how disconnected they were from their feelings. But, for those children who actually still showed some vulnerability, well they got the smacks and the whacks and the beltings and the nasty cracks. I think Bettleheim created the O.S. as an outlet for his own rage at being made to feel powerless and abused at the camps. He used his brilliance to hide his true intentions. And I guess for many reasons, no one ever said boo to him about his thirty years of abusing children. Maybe some staff just assumed he must be right because the University of Chicago supported his work. Maybe some staff were too intimidated by him to question what he said or to report his terrible abuse of children. Maybe some staff got off on being cruel to children themselves. Maybe some staff were dumb.

Now, Raines tries to prop up his idealized picture of Bettelheim with reports of children with "Good Leavings". And he focuses on one "success story" in particular. But, from reading this "success story's" own version of events (in a book entitled The Thing I Was), it appears that one of the MOST successful graduates was practically overcome with ambivalence about what Bettelheim did to him. Even this person describes Bettelheim as capable of terrible physical cruelty and shaming. And even this person clarifies that the main reason he was able to feel better about himself was because of a compassionate counselor who did her best to protect him from Bettelheim.

But, somehow, in Theron Raines' heart of hearts, the abuse seems to mean nothing to him. He doesn't seem to care about all the children who suffered terribly during Bettelheim's reign. So, please read this book with a grain of salt.

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books