| Suze Orman Hosts Her First Cruise
MIAMI, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Suze Orman, America's favorite personal finance expert, will host her first ever cruise from December 9-16, 2007 aboard the Costa Fortuna. During the seven-night Sail With Suze cruise, Orman will answer questions in a tell it like it is, easy-to-understand style while giving advice and direction through four in-depth workshops, including: How To Make More Out Of Less, Retirement Planning, Investments, and Estate Planning. "I am extremely excited to be hosting the first Sail With Suze cruise," said Orman. "We were looking for a vehicle to interact with consumers in a relatively intimate setting over a series of days, where they could walk away with all the tools they need to get started in building their financial future. We believe a cruise is a great way to combine personal financial education in a fun, interactive environment." The stunning 105,000-ton (2,720 passenger) Costa Fortuna is sailing her inaugural Caribbean season from Ft.
AFX Europe AM at a glance share guide: Stocks up, oil reaches new high
STOCKS: Wall Street ended higher after volatile trading Thursday, as mounting tensions in Iran were offset by a report that indicated better-than-expected US economic growth.
Crude prices surged to a six-month high as the market remained nervous about the West's response to British sailors seized by the Iranian navy, while the Commerce Department's final measure of fourth-quarter gross domestic product showed growth of 2.5 pct. While this figure could lessen fears about an economic slowdown, it could make it harder for the inflation-wary Federal Reserve to cut short-term interest rates.
Investors also bought and sold stocks to window dress their portfolio before Saturday's end of the first quarter.
Earlier in the day, the Labor Department released a report that showed the number of newly laid-off workers signing up for unemployment benefits last week declined.
General Accounting and Related Business Processes: Processing ...
This is the 2nd article in a series about General Accounting and Related Business Processes. This material is adapted from The Automated Accounting Systems and Procedures Handbook (John Wiley, New York 1991) Chapter 9. 9.3 JOURNAL PROCESSING Referring to Figure 9-1, journal processing includes all manual and system activities that precede the posting process. In a sense, these activities form the front-end of the entire general ledger. People often think of journal processing as primarily revolving around the general accounting department's preparation and entry of manual journals, but with the capabilities available in a modern, automated general ledger system, journal processing can involve much more:' Accepting and editing batches of journal entries created by subsidiary accounting systems.
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