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Despite the rough economy, accountants are still in heavy demand at many accounting firms and private companies, so employers still need to make extra efforts to retain and recruit qualified staff.

Cloud-computing company Quipu Applications will award $30,000 in seed financing to the student with the best start-up business plan through its competition, Boot Strap America - Starting up America One Business Plan at a Time.

When you start working for the Big 4 you will be entering a world that is completely different than the world that you are used to.

The Web site OnlineAccountingColleges.com has listed Accounting Today as one of the top 25 accounting journals and publications.

Many firms have lost a top-ten client to a competitor during the past year. Most of these firms subscribed to the “no news is good news” theory.

Online tax prep software and service provider TaxSlayer.com is making a name for itself by sponsoring a prominent college bowl game and signing Nascar driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. to get behind the wheel of its TaxSlayer.com Chevrolet.

Southeast accounting, tax and consulting service firm Elliott Davis was named one of the Best Midlands Companies for Working Moms by the March of Dimes and Greater Columbia Business Monthly.

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management is now recruiting students for its recently launched master of accountancy program that focuses on valuation services.

Hewlett-Packard may be spinning off its PC business, but the company is still making calculators for accountants and other folks.

Employees of Brockman, Coats, Gedelian & Company are celebrating the northeast Ohio accounting firm’s 25th anniversary by volunteering and donating to 25 local charities.