BY IRVING L. BLACKMAN TAX ACCOUNTANT THE PURPOSE OF this monthly column always has been and still is simple: to show you, my readers, how to save taxes and create wealth (usually tax-free). Every now and then we hit a home run. How do we know...

BY H. KENT CRAIG MECHANICAL CONTRACTOR IT'S 2 P.M. FRIDAY. You've just learned that the senior project manager for your company, Mr. Alias, was fired Monday because of some " accounting irregularities" that were found in one of his jobs and that...

Murder in the boiler room BY DAVE YATES PLUMBING CONTRACTOR IT'S BEEN SAID that Dead Men tell no tales, but the gang of murderers I was investigating just might not be dead yet! View to a kill: I was invited to investigate the murder scene and...

BY WILLIAM AND PATTI FELDMAN COMPUTER AUTHORITIES THE FIRST STEP when specifying and recommending a residential heating system is to determine the heat load for the project. Here is software that can speed that process and guarantee accuracy...

BY MARK EATHERTON HYDRONIC HEATING AUTHORITY WE BEGAN DISCUSSING the potential of waste heat recovery as an alternative to conventional heat sources for powering commercial snow-melt systems in my October column (pg. 42). In one particular case...

MARKETING CONSULTANT THIS FORM OF MARKETING is no longer a secret. Well, except for about 94% of you. Brace yourself. This is big: You like getting new customers. So, with heady observations like that, you may be equally shocked at this one...

IT'S FRUSTRATING. Year after year our office is asked to give a second opinion on the completed estate plans of owners of family businesses. It is rare very rare to analyze the estate plan (particularly the life insurance policies) of a real-life...

MECHANICAL CONTRACTOR IF YOU HONESTLY think this socalled "green revolution" is a fad, ask yourself: Do you believe that gasoline is going to drop back down to a buck a gallon in your lifetime? If your belief is that so-called "energy-efficient...