March 7, 2014
Professionals on the Move – March 7, 2014
A weekly roundup of professionals in the tax and accounting profession that have changed jobs and/or been promoted.
March 6, 2014
Treadmill Desks and Wireless Headsets Can Make Workers Better
A recent study by the University of Minnesota found that walking while working might impove not only an employee's health, but also boost output. The study, conducted by Avner Ben-Ner, a professor of Work and Organizations at the Carlson School of Management, followed about 40 employees of a local financial services company who regularly used…
March 6, 2014
Worker Confidence Drops in February
Optimism among American workers declined in the month of February, decreasing 2.7 points to 54.0, according to the most recent Randstad U.S. Employee Confidence Index.
March 5, 2014
Firm Skis for 24 Hours to Raise Funds for Youth Group
Could you ski for 24 hours straight, even for a great cause? An accounting firm in Maine has accepted the challenge.
March 4, 2014
How Accounting Firms Should Handle Client Complaints
Nine out of ten times, when a client complains about a price, the price is not the real problem, the problem is some aspect of the service, but the client may not know how to articulate their real complaint, so they focus on price. If you ask why, you can find out the real problem.
March 4, 2014
Training, IT and Disaster Recovery Top List of Firm Concerns
The accounting association, CPAmerica International, released the results of its second Information Technology (IT) Benchmarking Survey to all its participants. The online survey collected data from association members in order to provide benchmarking data on software, certifications, training and disaster recovery.
March 4, 2014
CohnReznick to Consolidate Offices in Downtown Hartford
CohnReznick, with operations concentrated in the Northeast and Middle Atlantic States, will combine its offices in Glastonbury and Farmington and lease 50,000 square feet on the top two floors of the Metro Center tower on Church Street. The lease runs for 11 years, and the move is expected in November.
March 3, 2014
Psychic Swindler Sentenced to 10 Years – Did She See It Coming?
Convicted psychic swindler Rose Marks was sentenced to just over 10 years in federal prison Monday for defrauding clients of her family's fortune-telling businesses out of more than $17.8 million.
March 3, 2014
PwC Appoints New Assurance Leader for Carolinas Market
Big 4 accounting firm PwC US has appointed Jessica Good, a 20-year veteran of the firm, as the Assurance leader for the firm's Carolinas market. In her new role, she will lead a practice comprising over 375 PwC professionals throughout North and South Carolina. Good succeeds Crawford Pounds who has been appointed as the Market…
February 28, 2014
Professionals on the Move – February 28, 2014
A weekly roundup of professionals in the tax and accounting profession that have changed jobs and/or been promoted.
February 27, 2014
What Facebook’s Acquisition of WhatsApp Means for Firms
Every product line (or service, or industry) begins at introduction, when a handful of early adopters begin to use it. This stage requires a lot of investment with little profitability. If the product survives this stage – and most do not – sales and profits begin to pick up as the product grows in popularity…
February 26, 2014
AICPA and CPA Canada Team Up On Forensic Advisory Services
New agreement gives CPAs in both countries access to same resources, credentials in rapidly growing, highly specialized practice areas.