Education & Careers news September 2009

Education & Careers

Vrakas/Blum sponsors new business building at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Brookfield, WI-based CPA firm, Vrakas/Blum has co-sponsored the construction of the new Hyland Hall, home to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s College of Business and Economics. 
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Practice Management

Mother Nature offers tips for nurturing NextGen staff members

As a lover of horticulture, I see many parallels between the lessons I learn in my garden and those I learn in life.
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A&A

CFOs expect little change in hiring activity in the fourth quarter

Most financial executives plan to maintain their current accounting and finance staff levels in the fourth quarter, according to a new survey.
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AccountingWEB Life

Passing the CPA Exam: More than just a test

There is an implicit level of respect you receive in earning the CPA designation - not just from the public at large, but also from your fellow CPAs.
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Tax

IRS launches online Tax Benefits for Education information center

The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new Web section highlighting various tax breaks and 529 plan changes designed to help parents and students pay for college.
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Education & Careers

Accounting and finance students help not-for-profits in Project Run With It

For the second year in a row, Moss Adams sponsored Project Run With It (PRWI) in force at the 2009 Beta Alpha Psi Annual meeting in Brooklyn, New York.
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Education & Careers

E&Y announces academic awards

As part of Ernst & Young LLP's commitment to helping universities prepare their students for a global and inclusive workforce, the firm has announced the winners of the first annual Ernst & Young Inclusive Excellence Awards for Accounting and Business School Faculty.
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Voice of the Editor

Even though any accounting auditor would tell you it seems like there are an awful lot of tax accountants out there, surely one-third of the country isn't made up of tax preparers, so it's rather startling news to learn that one-third of Americans like to do their taxes. Who knew?
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Gail Perry, CPA
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, AccountingWEB
editor@accountingweb.com
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This Week on AccountingWEB

Bill Walter of Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates and Harold Gaar of TravisWolff LLP weigh in on mobile technology use while employees are at work.
WestArk RSVP and Fayette County Community Action Agency – organizations that received grant funding through the IRS Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) program – spoke with AccountingWEB about how they assist senior citizens in their communities.
CPA Robert Raiola, who heads the Sports & Entertainment Group of Fazio, Mannuzza, Roche, Tankel, LaPilusa, LLC, talks NFL player income taxes with AccountingWEB.
Retiring KPMG Centennial Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business Robert May, PhD talks with AccountingWEB about his rewarding forty-three-year career.
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