Articles for Legal & Accounting Experts

West Virginia Court Rejects Attacks On Arbitration Agreement

Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - The decision also deals with a wide-ranging attack on an arbitration agreement that uses most of the arguments commonly asserted by plaintiffs’ lawyers around the country, rejecting them one by one...

Reacting In Rome
Influencing At Home

Thursday, February 08, 2007
David Keller - How do you start your planning? Ask yourself what you want to accomplish. Put it on paper. It doesn’t have to be neat, or complete, in the beginning...

Avoiding The Year End Rush

Thursday, January 04, 2007
Dave Keller - The office staff should focus on reconciling all balance sheet and some income statement general ledger accounts to ensure the balances are accurate.

Before You Peddle Disability Insurance

Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Thomas B. Hudson, Esq - Parker and Konopinski sued Klaben and Progressive alleging, among other things, negligence and fraudulent misrepresentation...

Accounting For Special Finance And BHPH Differences

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
David Keller - Most software programs also permit the printing of any of the available financial statements at any time during the month...

When The Fastball Isn’t Working, It’s Time For The Curveball . .

Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - Thomas Colunga bought a car from Sonic Automotive and financed the purchase by entering into a retail installment sales contract...

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire ... Or Not.

Friday, November 10, 2006
Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - ... which did not admit any wrongdoing, said Wednesday it settled the lawsuit to avoid the cost of protracted litigation...

Getting Your Act Together - All The Pieces

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
David Keller - Having an under capitalized dealership will not allow you to grow at the right speed, and you will “crash.”...

The Almost Perfect Dealership

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
David Keller - It also means you must have first set goals for every person in your dealership, including yourself, to achieve the perfect dealership environment...

Bad Apples In Your Apple Bin? What’s A Dealer To Do?

Monday, October 02, 2006
Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - Specifically, the dealer was accused of using his laptop computer to generate false ... documents about a buyer's income...

The Story Your Financial Statements Tell

Thursday, September 28, 2006
Jeff Smelley - The importance you place on record keeping and financial reporting impacts the ... decisions made as a result of them...

Let's Get Something Done

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - Pick up your buyers order and the retail installment sales agreements you use, and follow along...

Eliminate Chaos In Accounting

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Daivd Keller - However, it is necessary to follow essential procedures that are in the best interest of your dealership, so paperwork can be properly completed...

A Spot Delivery Goes Bad

Thursday, September 07, 2006
Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - If you want to institute a spot delivery procedure that is an invitation to a lawsuit, just follow the following handy-dandy directions...

Columnar Pads Or Computerized Accounting

Thursday, September 07, 2006
David Keller - The independent dealer has many choices when deciding what their accounting department should look like...

Oops! Someone is Sleeping

Friday, September 01, 2006
Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - I’ve frequently have to point out to people in the car business that the Truth in Lending Act doesn’t apply to many credit transactions...

Consumer Unsuccessfully Challenges Enforceability Of Arbitration Agreement

Friday, September 01, 2006
Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - “There has to be separate consideration – apart from the consideration supporting the contract of sale – to support the agreement to arbitrate.”

going to the videotape

Friday, September 01, 2006
Thomas B. Hudson, Esq - First, if the F&I process wasn’t perfect, the videotape would record the imperfections and the tape would become ... Exhibit 1...

Computer Data Backups And Insurance

Friday, September 01, 2006
David Keller - The first thing the owners did was call the individual who was responsible for the tape backup the night before...

Computer Record Retention

Friday, September 01, 2006
David Keller - Your people attempt to print a list of customers and sales data as requested...

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