Is there a generation gap in your marketing department?Overcoming tensions between generations of talented, creative, high energy members of a marketing team is vital to increasing the success of a firm’s marketing efforts, not to mention improving office morale. On Thursday, October 26, Phyllis Weiss Haserot, President and founder of the Practice Development Council, will be presenting Resolving Inter-Generational Issues for Marketing and Marketing Teams as part of the Association for Accounting Marketing’s (AAM) Quarterly Virtual Learning Series.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a petition filed on behalf of international law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood (Sidley & Austin) regarding the ability of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to pursue monetary damages and other individual victim-specific relief in the ongoing discrimination suit against the firm. The refusal comes just months after the number of workers age 55 and older reached 24.6 million, the highest level ever recorded, according to a study from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Hundreds of certified public accounting (CPA) firms participated in INSIDE Public Accounting’s (IPA) Annual Benchmarking Survey.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Tuesday issued staff questions and answers providing direction for auditing a company’s estimation of the fair value of stock options granted to employees pursuant to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (Revised), Share-Based Payment (FAS 123R).This series of questions and answers is limited to addressing auditing the fair value measurements associated with determining compensation cost.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) on Monday released an Exposure Draft of Proposed Statement on Standards for Valuation Services (SSVS) Valuation of a Business, Business Ownership Interest, Security, or Intangible Asset.

Pay and performance reviews are the most common causes of conflict between employees and their supervisors or managers. Globally, 32 percent of workers report pay reviews as the source of workplace conflict, while 19 percent cite performance reviews or not being considered for a promotion as the main cause of conflict, according to the latest Financial Directions Survey from Robert Half International. “Issues over pay and career progression are clearly a cause of stress for finance professionals.

Signs that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is entering a new phase of its development came recently when the Board submitted a draft of changes to the Auditing Standard 2 (AS2) to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that are said to modify confusing definitions and eliminate the need for separate internal control and financial statements audits.

Professional businesses today are structurally complex organizations with many senior people overburdened by time-consuming and often conflicting roles.

Ron Riebe, vice president of KeyBank, has been award the 2006 Financial Executive of the Year Award from the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) and Robert Half International (RHI). “The Financial Executive of the Year Award recognizes best-in-class management accounting and finance professionals,” IMA President and chief executive officer (CEO) Paul Sharman said in a statement announcing this year’s winner. “As a national winner, Mr.