72% of employers will strengthen employment brand to prepare for economy turn-around
As the nation works toward recovering from one of the steepest downturns in U.S. history, employers are preparing now for when the economy rebounds, a...
New MBA grads looking at alternative careers
As anyone from the MIT Sloan School of Management Class of 2009 will tell you, looking for work this spring has been no picnic. But now that most of t...
FASB Codification will be provided to faculty and students for free
On July 1, 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is instituting a major change in the way accounting standards are organized. On that ...
AICPA responds to CPA exam myths
Another season, another batch of new CPAs are being sworn in. Jeff, a CPA and the author of "Another 71 - A CPA Exam Blog," recently posed these quest...
Program matches accounting students with small businesses
When Eduardo Chavez-Guerrero's wife's business started to take off, he decided to help her run CP Universal LLC, which provides decoration for special...
CPA Society offers lessons for new accounting graduates
At high schools and universities graduates are hearing commencement speeches filled with messages of hope and support. They're entering a tough world ...
CRI awards scholarships to top students
The Nashville office of public accounting firm Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC, one of the Southeast's 'Top Four' accounting and business consulting fir...
Louisiana State students use gala to raise cash for needy
A weekly volunteering opportunity for students at Louisiana State University in Shreveport has turned into a gala event that has raised more than $20,...
Recession inspires mothers to return to school; business, accounting popular options
Earning a degree has long been a dream of many working mothers. While it might seem the recession would put that dream even further out of reach for m...
Parents mull best gifts for grads in a down economy
In the days following the U.S. Department of Labor's announcement that the unemployment rate had hit its highest point since September 1983, parents o...
University of Texas accounting program tops rankings once again
It's probably no surprise that one of the most renowned business schools in the country claims top-ranked accounting programs, at both the undergradua...
Ernst & Young develops unique business course for FAU
Ernst & Young LLP's Insurance and Actuarial Advisory Services group recently assisted Florida Atlantic University in the development of a three-cr...
Long Island accounting students compete in Accounting Challenge
An audience of hundreds of students and faculty cheered on four teams of accounting majors from prominent Long Island universities as they competed ag...
Beta Alpha Psi & AICPA join forces to inspire greatness in students
Beta Alpha Psi, the honorary organization for financial information students and professionals, and the AICPA are teaming up again this year to offer ...
Margolin, Winer & Evens sponsors competition for Long Island accounting students
Margolin, Winer & Evens LLP (MWE), a CPA firm with offices in Garden City, New York and Manhattan, will sponsor the first annual "College Accounti...
Moss Adams and Beta Alpha Psi team up for "Project Run With It"
Moss Adams is once again partnering with Beta Alpha Psi to offer the "Project Run With It" competition which brings together 60 BAP students from mult...
Ernst & Young LLP announces annual BAP diversity competition
Up to 10 Beta Alpha Psi chapters can win $1,000 each if they can show they have improved diversity within their chapter, the school, or community.Erns...
KPMG honors 'superior' BAP chapters
The KPMG Foundation will award $2,500 to as many as 15 Beta Alpha Psi Chapters that go above and beyond the requirements to be considered "superior ch...
E&Y donates $500,000 to Indiana University Kelley School of Business
James S. Turley, chairman and chief executive officer of Ernst & Young LLP, presented Indiana University's Kelley School of Business with a $500,0...
Preying on the desperation of the unemployed
As many unlucky job seekers are learning the hard way, an ailing economy can bring out the worst in people.With the unemployment rate at a 17-year hig...
