AT Think

  • Students from Rutgers Preparatory School in Somerset, N.J. and Mt. St. Mary Academy in Watchung, N.J. have taken home close to $20,000 in cash awards and a trip to Washington D.C. for their knowledge about the Euro against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis.

    May 12
  • The Senate Finance Committee held the third in a series of hearings Tuesday on the proposed bank tax, which has garnered more support now that the Senate has agreed to drop the $50 billion resolution fund from the financial reform bill.

    May 11
  • Big Four PricewaterhouseCoopers has given out $500,000 in grants to four universities as part of their broader effort to promote and support the recruitment and advancement of diverse students within the accounting profession.

    May 11
  • What happens when you’re a 65-year-old accountant and you’ve just been laid off by your employer of 20 years?

    May 10
  • Do you see an economic crisis as a deep swallowing pit or a minor speed bump offering endless possibilities?

    May 10
  • Stock exchanges are supposed to have mechanisms to shut down waves of panicked selling that could be triggered by computerized trading glitches, but that apparently didn’t happen in New York amid fears of a European debt crisis.

    May 7
  • Next week, more than 150 employees from Bethesda, Md.-based Reznick Group will pile into buses and emerge on four area elementary schools – all in the name of financial literacy.

    May 7
  • The San Francisco 49ers have been doing a bit of accounting legerdemain to get around the salary caps and extend the contract of one of their best players, Patrick Willis.

    May 6
  • Bethesda, Md-based Bond Beebe sent a team of 30 firm volunteers to landscape a church in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington D.C. as part of the Greater D.C. Cares Servathon 2010.

    May 6
  • Just because women now make up 50 percent of the workforce doesn’t mean they are on equal footing with men. In fact, many women are still judged on a dusty stereotype – that they can’t control their emotions. A new book looks at this phenomenon and offers women reasons to hold back the tears in the workplace.

    May 5