Idaho, a state with, until recently, no active oil or gas wells, is officially a state with a new industry and top-tier regulations – putting it at a great advantage to move forward amid the fracking debate wracking the nation. In 2010, Bridge Resources and a partner company, drilled seven exploratory wells and found that […]
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Last November I asked our clients to give me three predictions for what would happen to the oil and gas industry and economy during 2012. The following 21 predictions are a compilation of the most popular prediction topics our clients sent in. We will follow these predictions throughout the year to see how they pan […]
Continue readingYou know it’s an election year when President Obama does a 180 degree turn of opinion regarding the oil and gas industry in less than 18 months. Two weeks ago three federal agencies announced their partnership to work on the development of unconventional domestic natural gas thanks to an Executive Order from President Obama. The […]
Continue readingFor the first time in nearly three years, gas prices at the pump haven’t risen significantly year-to-year. If you remember my post from this time last year, I wrote how prices had crept up to nearly $4 per gallon nationwide. From 2009 to 2011 prices rose by an average of 65 cents per year, according […]
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Senator Inhofe’s House address last week regarding an EPA Regional Administrator’s comments to “crucify” the oil and gas industry to make an example shook the industry over the weekend. In a 2010 town hall meeting in Dish, Texas, Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz gave a crude analogy regarding “crucifixion” to explain of how the […]
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Leading energy-decision makers from 23 countries convened yesterday in London for the third annual Clean Energy Ministerial to work together to advance clean energy technology on a global scale, including the U.S. Energy Department’s Secretary Steven Chu. While I agree with most in the oil and gas industry that the clean energy initiatives will take […]
Continue readingWith so many Americans using QuickBooks for their personal and business accounting needs, I thought I’d ask our community of SherWare users to help us out again on a blog post to see what benefits they’ve found in using QuickBooks for business needs. Here are their top 10 benefits of using QuickBooks and top […]
Continue readingAfter my post earlier in the month on Intuit’s 2020 Accounting Report, I sought the insight of our accountant and bookkeeper clients to see if what the report predicted, jived with how our clients saw their industry. Here is what they clarified for me: Trend One: Outsourcing accounting functions such as data entry and bookkeeping […]
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For those QuickBooks users out there who follow the blog, last week we took a look at some tips from the QuickBooks Specialists blog by Ruth Perryman, a QuickBooks guru if there ever was one. Today, I’d like to look at a few that I’ve enjoyed from QuickBooks and Your Business, by Shannon Tucker. […]
Continue readingFor those QuickBooks users out there who follow the blog, last week we took a look at some tips from the QuickBooks Specialists blog by Ruth Perryman, a QuickBooks guru if there ever was one. Today, I’d like to look at a few that I’ve enjoyed from QuickBooks and Your Business, by Shannon Tucker. A […]
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