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...weren't alone. Cendant, the result of last year's merger of HFS, a franchise company whose brands included Howard Johnson and Avis, and CUC, a kind of discount-shopping club, dazzled many a portfolio manager. After downplaying its accounting "irregularities" last April, the company last week revealed that the CUC side of the business had actually fabricated nearly $300 million in revenues over three years. The stock, which had rebounded to $25, quickly retreated to the high teens. It has since gone lower. And why shouldn't it? Most of the "earnings" that had jacked up the stock were...
...with a list of every matching book in its database. Choose your title, type in your address and credit-card number, and service reps at Amazon.com's Seattle warehouse will find your order and mail it to you, usually within one or two days, and often at a hefty discount. Three years after launch, Amazon.com has 2.25 million worldwide customers, and sales that may reach $350 million this year...
...that line in the next couple of years. For some firms, the Net has become an essential competitive advantage. Dell, which sells $5 million worth of computers a day on its website, claims that the efficiencies of Web-based sales give it a 6% profit advantage over its competitors. Discount-mortgage broker American Finance and Investment, which conducts 60% of its business online, was profitable 90 days after plugging into the Net. And Eddie Bauer, the outdoor-clothing retailer, has an online operation that has been profitable since 1997 and is growing at 300% to 500% a year...
...family limited partnership effectively allows you to make a gift of assets at a discount of as much as 40% of their actual value, thus allowing you to give about $16,000 tax free per person per year--considerably more than the customary $10,000 limit. It works because the assets in a partnership, which has restrictions, are deemed less valuable than the same assets in an unrestricted account...
...Amount saved by the Queen's sister Princess Margaret by using a senior citizen's discount pass on a public train...