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CPA and advisory firm BKD joined the Corporate Angel Network last month, making its corporate plane available to cancer and bone marrow transplant patients requesting free travel through the network.

You have likely seen square bar codes appearing on ads, catalogs and magazines everywhere. But what are they and what purpose do they serve?

As a graduate of the State University of New York Fashion Institute of Technology, and a career beginning in New York with companies including Giorgio Armani, Christian Dior, Jones Apparel Group and Avon Products Inc., I would have never expected to find myself employed within the field of accounting, let alone the industry’s 2011 Association for Accounting Marketing “Rookie of the Year.”

With congressional Republicans firmly opposed to considering any tax increases to help close the federal budget deficit, the high-stakes negotiations over raising the debt ceiling by August 2 seem to be gradually coalescing around a contingency plan offered by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ken.

KPMG announced that it achieved a 22 percent carbon reduction over three years from its 2007 baseline target, reduced paper consumption by 33 percent and emissions from electricity by 16 percent.

Seemingly every media outlet, especially in New York, seems to be speculating this week about how much tax money a lucky Yankees fan will have to owe the IRS after he caught and returned the historic home run ball hit by Derek Jeter last Saturday.

One of the most powerful natural laws on the side of any business owner or leader is the 80/20 rule.

The New York State Society of CPAs’ Foundation of Accounting Education and Pace University recently toasted to the 25th anniversary of the Career Opportunities in the Accounting Profession (COAP) program.

Nevin Nussbaum, partner in the accounting and audit department of regional Ohio CPA firm Cohen & Company, will receive one of the fifth annual “30 for the Future” awards from the Greater Akron Chamber.

While the main buzz at the Sage Summit partner and user conference in Washington has been the re-branding of its entire product line, Sage North America chief executive Pascal Houillon also realizes they need to work on reaching out to the CPA community to create more products and services for them.