AT Think

“If you want to win, you have to get up early.”

Former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld played a crucial role in helping the U.S. government pry loose the names of U.S. account holders with money in the Swiss bank, but he’s nevertheless getting sentenced to 40 months in prison.

Jeremy Roche, the former CEO of Coda who now runs the recently formed spinoff FinancialForce.com, sees lots of possibilities in the cloud computing market.

BusinessWeek published an interesting article last week regarding Deloitte’s new strategy of recruiting minorities at community colleges in an effort to bring more diversity to the firm – a good thing, since of the 4,500 partners and top executives at Deloitte, 92 percent are white.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress seem more open now to approving a new tax credit for job creation as unemployment approaches double digits, but it’s far from being a done deal.

CalCPA members, get your cameras ready.

Small companies in the U.S. are free to move to the International Accounting Standards Board’s stripped-down set of International Financial Reporting Standards for small and midsized enterprises, but few are doing so yet.

Well, yes. But in this case she’s an Ironman competing in this year’s Ford Ironman Championship.

About 47 percent of households, approximately 71 million, will not be paying any income taxes this year, according to the Tax Policy Center, placing a greater burden on those who do.

Stephen Chipman, incoming chief executive of Grant Thornton LLP and Ed Nusbaum, incoming chief executive of Grant Thornton International, talk to Accounting Today Editor-in-Chief Bill Carlino about why a recent college grad should choose their firm. We also learn that, yes, Nusbaum has his own iPod.