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Check this out: award-winning author and Harvard Business Review blogger Tammy Erickson will give her spin on generational stereotypes in the accounting profession during a Young CPA Infocast sponsored by the AICPA.

Richard Fuld, the former CEO of Lehman Brothers will be testifying Tuesday before Congress about the defunct investment bank’s accounting practices in light of the recent report by bankruptcy examiner Anton Valukas.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission came down hard on Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs on Friday, accusing the bank of defrauding its own investors by concealing information from them about the riskiness of the subprime mortgages it packaged and sold.

You know you want to. And well, if you want to grow and be successful, you kind of have to. That’s right, networking – love it or hate it –but it’s necessary to becoming a well-rounded professional.

Not to be gloomy on Tax Day, but the headline from an AP story the other day caught my eye.

Who’s going out for happy hour tonight?

The Treasury Department has proposed new regulations that would prevent banks from freezing accounts containing money from Social Security, Supplemental Security Income and veterans’ benefits, a long overdue step.

Accounting majors at Montclair State University in New Jersey received an earful of information on International Financial Reporting Standards during a recent Q&A session hosted by an audit supervisor from WISS & Co.

More accounting shenanigans at Lehman Brothers have come to light, with new revelations that the defunct investment bank created an entity called Hudson Castle to help conceal billions of dollars of risky assets.