Community News news September 2007

Community News

Accounting firms populate <i>Working Mother</i> top 100 list

Working Mother magazine has released its annual list of the top 100 firms for working mothers, and this year, three of the Big Four firms appear in the top 10.Among the top 10 firms are Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Community News

Reznick Group to host free national webcast on new audit and accounting standards

Subject matter experts from the national CPA firm, Reznick Group, will host a national webcast on Wed., Oct. 3, 2007, from 2-4:30 pm ET to present a detailed outline of new audit standards and explain new accounting requirements for implementing and maintaining internal controls within an organization.
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Education & Careers

Ernst & Young launches campus video competition

Leading professional services firm Ernst & Young LLP announced the launch of a video competition for college students in the U.S. and Canada as part of the firm's enhanced efforts to engage and connect with recruits.
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Community News

Rochester-based Bernardi & Russo LLP merges with regional firm

A merger between the Rochester based CPA firm of Bernardi & Russo LLP and regional firm Freed Maxick & Battaglia, CPAs has been announced. The merger expands Freed Maxick & Battaglia’s staff in Rochester to 22 employees, more than doubling the firm’s Rochester-based workforce. The merger puts Freed Maxick & Battaglia ahead of schedule to reach its goal of 30 Rochester-based employees by the end of 2008. The firm will now employ 230 professional and administrative staff across Rochester, Batavia, and Buffalo (headquarters).
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Community News

Accounting film festival – Deloitte recruiting takes to the screen

Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (Deloitte) recently launched the first-ever Deloitte Film Festival, a new and innovative approach to leveraging employee-generated content to bolster Gen Y recruiting activities and drive workforce engagement.With "What's Your Deloitte?" as the theme of this groundbreaking corporate initiative, all of Deloitte's personnel were encouraged to make short films that express the organization's culture and values.More than 370 short films were submitted by teams of Deloitte personnel (one to seven individuals per team), from offices across the U.S. firms.
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Community News

Aronson & Company to award one student a $2,500 professional makeover!

Aronson & Company (A&C), a nationally-ranked top 50 accounting and consulting firm, recently announced its Show Us Your Future video submission contest geared toward college accounting and finance majors entering the job market.In order to win the grand prize, a student-to-professional makeover worth more than $2,500, entrants are asked to submit a three minute video that creatively demonstrates where they see themselves after graduation.
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Community News

Thomson to acquire Deloitte Tax LLP Property Tax Services

The Thomson Corporation, a leading provider of information solutions to business and professional customers worldwide, has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Deloitte Tax LLP Property Tax Services business (PTS).
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Voice of the Editor

What would you do if one of your clients won the lottery? We asked several accountants to weigh in with their advice for the lucky Powerball winner, and the tips we received are useful for anyone who receives a windfall, whether it's a lottery win, an inheritance, a big bonus on the job, or a killing in the stock market.
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Gail Perry, CPA
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, AccountingWEB
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This Week on AccountingWEB

CPAs Mira Finé, Scott Hitchcock, Rob Keasal, Kathy Scorcio, and Ken Travis offer ten pieces of financial advice for the newest Powerball winner.
Hang Bower of BDO USA and Dan Black of Ernst & Young share their perspectives on why their firms made the Best Places to Work for Recent Grads 2013 list.
Herbein + Company, Inc. firm members talked with AccountingWEB about their year-round employee wellness program.
Bill Walter of Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates and Harold Gaar of TravisWolff LLP weigh in on mobile technology use while employees are at work.
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