AT Think

Good manners were instilled in me at an early age. I couldn’t have anything without a please or a thank you. It wasn’t until I started my first job that I realized how important it was here, too.

Tax season might be a few months away, but now is the time to start thinking about how to manage staff and adequately prepare for the extra work, longer hours and tighter deadlines that accompany this time of year.

Accounting Principals has a new survey out with the outlook on the economy from financial professionals, and apparently next year is looking better than this one.

The Illinois CPA Society honored four members with its annual “Women to Watch” awards, which recognize the recipients’ contributions to the accounting profession, their organization and the progression of women leaders.

Employees of Baltimore, Md.-based CPA and consulting firm Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates recently spent four days volunteering with two local nonprofits as part of its annual community efforts.

Last week I had the great honor and opportunity to sit courtside for a live one-hour presentation from our favorite contrarian, irreverent hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry himself.

Nearly three-quarters of women in accounting and finance believe they face different obstacles from their male counterparts, according to a new survey.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board have tried to winnow down the priority projects on their convergence agenda to just three or four, but that hasn’t stopped interested parties from trying to get them to add more work to their to-do list.

Well, it’s been almost a year since I first blogged about the e-filing mandate. With the 2010 tax season officially over, I’m curious how it went for you?

The Internal Revenue Service has decided to go along with a U.S. Tax Court decision last year allowing a transgender person to deduct the cost of their sex reassignment surgery.