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QuickBooks maker Intuit ran a commercial during the Super Bowl on Sunday to promote a local small business. The winner of the competition for the 30-second ad was GoldieBlox, a startup company based in Oakland, Calif., whose toys aim to inspire young girls to become engineers.

When a client has a problem, need or want, how well do you solve it? Is the client left feeling as if they are trekking all over the city to find a rare vegetable or is the answer quick to find and delivered flawlessly?

Remembering Abraham Briloff and his love for the truth

PwC’s Houston office will be donating a total of $75,000 to four Houston-based nonprofit organizations, funded through grants from the PwC Charitable Foundation.

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy’s Center for the Public Trust is launching a Student Ethical Leadership Certification Program.

The American Institute of CPAs announced that applications for the Accounting Scholars Leadership Workshop are now being accepted.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is anticipating that Super Bowl XLVIII will generate over $210 million in direct spending in the New York and New Jersey area, though the revenue generated by the Super Bowl and other pro football activities is leading some to question the NFL’s nonprofit, tax-exempt status.

Thirty employees of Irvine, Calif.-based accounting firm White Nelson Diehl Evans participated in an event Jan. 17 supporting Santa Ana-based nonprofit Women Helping Women/Men2Work.

GameStop, one of my very favorite stores, is having a hard time. Why is GameStop one of my favorite places?

The fact remains that when CPAs and accountants hear the word “sales,” they tend to run away as fast as possible yet when providers and vendors to the profession hear the same word, they see opportunities to meet their monthly or quarterly quotas.