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Careless workers need not apply, according to a recent Accountemps survey in which 41 percent of interviewed chief financial officers said lacking attention to detail and presenting sloppy work are the coworker behaviors that annoy them most.

Western New York accounting firm Freed Maxick & Battaglia will be one of a few hundred companies involved in the beta rollout of Twitter’s Promoted Product suite of advertising products through the firm’s @FreedMaxickCPAs account.

The New York State Society of CPAs attracted a large crowd Thursday evening at its 114th Annual Election Meeting & Dinner.

San Francisco is the best city to snag a finance job, according to a recent list from finance staffing provider Accounting Principals.

Judy Murphy, partner-in-charge of regional accounting and professional consulting firm RubinBrown, was awarded the Fr. Joseph L. Davis, S.J., Alumni Merit Award by Saint Louis University’s John Cook School of Business Alumni Association.

Major U.S. companies like Oracle and Amgen are stashing nearly $90 billion of their cash holdings offshore because of accounting and tax rules.

Regional CPA and business advisory firm ParenteBeard has launched a sustainability practice that will work with clients to create and further green initiatives.

Earlier this month, Accounting Today posted an article on building a new brand. In the article, it spoke specifically about the value of doing your due diligence before actually going through the branding process. Unfortunately, research like this can come with a hefty price tag.

The Virginia Society of CPAs recently received recognition for its “I Am the VSCPA” marketing campaign.

The future is looking bright for accounting graduates, according to the American Institute of CPAs’ new report, in which 90 percent of accounting firms forecast the same or increased hiring of graduates this year compared with 2010 and 71 percent of the largest firms predict more hiring.