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An Internet Site For Researching Management, Accounting, and Business  Information
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         A Yahoo Pipes Search Product
Useful Information On A City To Be Visited



Find city historic, weather, and visitor information using this Yahoo Pipes search product.  The search product will also deliver recent news headlines related to the city and photographs from Flickr containing the city’s name in the photograph title.  (The search product was created by Markus Aaltonen.)

The only requirement to perform the search is to enter the city name.

Click the List tab for links to historic, weather, visitor, and recent headline news about the city.  Click the Image tab for photographs from Flickr.  Click the Map tab for map information and satellite image.   Some cities on some continents will not show maps due to the map application limitations.

Click
here to go to this Yahoo Pipes search product.

Right clicking should lead to opening the product in a new window.
             A Yahoo Pipes Search Product
         
A Country’s Airport Locations with a
                         Location Search


See on a map the location of airports in a country using this Yahoo Pipes search product.   Click on any one of the airports and see detailed information for the airport's location.  (This search product was created by blueskyliner05 and modified by Richard Torian.)

Click on the list tab for a list of airports.  Click the name to see information about the location.

Click
here to go to this Yahoo Pipes search product.

Right clicking should lead to opening the product in a new window.
The graph to the right was created by using Google’s graph tools.

The line graph shows the imports of goods and services by Russia from 2003 to 2010.  The increase from 2003 to 2010 is 209 %.

Import growth rates might be useful for targeting countries where import growth is high.   Russia’s 209 % growth in recent years compares to:  Indonesia – 249%; South Africa – 219 %; Mexico – 130 %; Israel – 49 %; and Belgium – 46 %.

The graph’s data was obtained from a Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s website.   Data at this website can be obtained by clicking
here.
Imports of Good and Services by Russia 2003 to 2010 (billions of Russian Rubles)
The graph below was created using Google’s graphing tools.

This horizontal bar graph shows seven areas that Russian tax officials focus on when they conduct a company tax audit.  

The results in the graph are based on a 2010 survey that Ernst & Young conducted of 51 companies located in Russia. The percentages represent the frequency that companies experienced tax authorities inquires. The results of this survey can be assessed by clicking
here (PDF file).

Knowing these seven areas should help a company in Russia prepare for a tax audit.
Areas Focused On in a Russian Tax Audit