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SmartPros Accounting News & Insights August 30, 2010  Home | Member Services | News | Resource Library | Career Center | Professional Education | Marketplace | Investor Relations

IN THIS ISSUE Newsline: U.S. Economic Stimulus Adds Up to 3.3M Jobs in Second Quarter Feature: Technology Users Believe Human Error is the Leading Cause of Data Loss Online CPE: Documenting and Diagramming Techniques in Accounting Information Systems Book Pick: Privacy Means Profit: Prevent Identity Theft and Secure You and Your Bottom Line Web version | Archive & subscriptions | Email us  NEWSLINE U.S. Economic Stimulus Adds Up to 3.3M Jobs in Second Quarter The Obama administration's economic stimulus package has added as many as 3.3 million jobs in the second quarter of this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported on Tuesday. Related: Op/Ed: Spend the Stimulus Also in the News: SEC Makes Proxy Ballot Access Easier SEC Suspends Trading in More Stocks This Year SEC: Ex-Countrywide Chief Approved Special Loans FASB Chairman Herz Retiring CalPERS Loan Just Latest Budget-balancing Gimmick Investors Need the Full Story on Target Date Retirement Funds' Risks Ruling Sets Up IRS as Overseer of Groups' Gifts to Campaigns AICPA Tax Vice President to Testify at IRS Hearing on Proposed Tax Preparer Regulations   FEATURE Technology Users Believe Human Error is the Leading Cause of Data Loss According to a recent global survey on the causes of data loss, Kroll Ontrack® found 40 percent of home, business, government and channel users of information technology believe human error is the leading cause of data loss, up from 11 percent in 2005.   ONLINE CPE NEW CPE FROM SMARTPROS ADVANTAGE: Documenting and Diagramming Techniques in Accounting Information Systems  This course presents a basic overview of documenting and diagramming techniques that are used in representing the mechanics and flow of an accounting information system. Detailed discussions of data flow diagramming, document and systems flowcharting, and entity-relationship modeling are provided, and supportive illustrations of these diagram, flowcharts, and models are presented. The course concludes with a review of the REA Model (an extension of ER modeling) and some of its key aspects and features. Take this course  BOOK PICK Privacy Means Profit: Prevent Identity Theft and Secure You and Your Bottom Line By John D. Sileo Bulletproof your organization against data breach, identity theft, and corporate espionage. In this updated and revised edition of Privacy Means Profit, John Sileo demonstrates how to keep data theft from destroying your bottom line, both personally and professionally. In addition to sharing his gripping tale of losing $300,000 and his business to data breach, John writes about the risks posed by social media, travel theft, workplace identity theft, and how to keep it from happening to you and your business. Buy this book

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