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Our friend Glenn Cohen of Cohen Investment Strategies hosted a private webinar this week for accredited investors, where he and special guest Rick Campagna of 300 North Capital each shared their 2012 economic and financial market outlooks.

New Jersey-based CPA firm WithumSmith+Brown launched its inaugural Withum Week of Caring by providing more than 400 employee volunteers to help 30 different charitable organizations during the three days before Thanksgiving.

Joe Echevarria, the new CEO of Deloitte LLP, told Accounting Today that he plans to expand the accounting firm during his tenure.

There are many things to be thankful for in both my personal and professional life. And, of course, it’s that time of year when we ponder these things and reflect on just how far we’ve come.

The holiday season is a hectic time for busy professionals to manage both work and life, but I thought I’d share some great gift ideas and special tools that may help ease your holiday shopping endeavors.

Phoenix-based CPA Randall Sorensen would love the IRS to take notice of his new software designed to cure what he deems to be the gross overpayment of the Earned Income Tax Credit as a result of fraud.

KPMG represented the Big Four as one of Computerworld’s top 12 Green-IT Organizations for 2011, ranking No. 2 for its efficient strategies, work to reduce energy consumption in IT equipment and use of technology to conserve energy and lower carbon emissions.

One of the most popular destinations on the Internet, Wikipedia, is currently in the midst of its annual fundraising drive through its nonprofit parent organization, the Wikimedia Foundation.

Deloitte released the second edition of a report from the Deloitte Global Center for Corporate Governance, Women in the boardroom: A global perspective, which details the legislative efforts in 17 countries to encourage more women to serve on listed company boards.

As widely expected, the congressional “supercommittee” charged with coming up with $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction measures said Monday that it was unable to reach an agreement in time for its November 23 deadline.