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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Phil Shane, an accounting professor at the University of Colorado, was recently appointed to a year-long research fellowship with FASB to build bridges between the standard setting world and academia.

The American Society of Women Accountants and the American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants has named Chicago-based BDO as one of the 2010 Best CPA Firms for Women.

Today – the last day of Financial Literacy Month – is Financial Literacy Social Media Outreach Day and the Texas Society of CPAs is getting busy.