AT Think

With 2010 upon us, as well as a new decade, it seems a good time to ask what you plan to do differently or better this year. Everyone talks about New Year’s resolutions, but what are you going to do in your firm to start a cultural (and peaceful) revolution?

Wishing all our readers a very happy and healthy New Year! We look forward to the next decade and all the generational change it will bring.

Not only is the U.S. Senate leery of passing a carbon tax, but apparently the idea is also running aground in both France and the state of Minnesota.

The expiration of the estate tax at the beginning of the year, and the threat of it returning with a vengeance in 2011 at a 55 percent rate for estates over $1 million, is giving estate planners fits.

BDO Academy, a new educational and mentoring initiative intended to get Grand Rapids students jazzed up about accounting, has been launched in conjunction with the firm’s 90th anniversary of its founding BDO Seidman office.

Banks using some auditing firms took larger write-downs than others, according to a new analysis, and that once again raises the question of just how fair fair value accounting really is.

An interesting blog post came to myattention the other day – one that claims that more experienced staff need to “parent”the younger professionals within a firm. (Insert groan here).

The Maryland/Washington D.C./DelawareAssociation for Accounting Marketing Chapter is offering a handful of webinarsfor the upcoming year –focusing on, you guessed it, marketing.

Former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld is ready to give prosecutors and the IRS more information about the Swiss bank’s secretive operations in an effort to further postpone his prison sentence.

Christmas may be over but employees at Rea & Associates have given the gift that keeps on giving. Staff at Rea & Associates’ 11 firms raised more than 24,000 pounds of food during their annual holiday drive. A tradition that has been going on for six years.