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Hold onto your hats. Accounting and finance workers’ optimism about job availability and confidence in their own ability to find a new job decreased in the first quarter of 2009, according to a new survey. Somehow, this news isn’t quite shocking.

The 39th Earth Day is here and Accounting Tomorrow wants to know, what is your firm doing to make its carbon footprint on the world less dense?

Each year, approximately 140 students graduate with a Ph.D in accounting - not nearly enough to sustain the demand estimated at 500, according to research by David Leslie, chancellor professor of education at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

How can you tell if a Gen Yer hates his boss?

Accounting Tomorrow needs you.

Boomers are invading Twitter. People ages 45 to 54 are 36 percent more likely to visit the site, according to marketing research from comScore.

Financial advisors and CPAs in the Atlanta area who want to connect with others in elder care practice will have the opportunity at a symposium slated for April 24.

According to a 2008 study by Aon Corp., a 25-year-old earning $30,000 who has not started saving for retirement will need to save at least 4.2 percent of his annual salary until age 65 to have a chance of retiring with an appropriate amount of savings. If that worker were age 35 making $60,000, the number jumps to 7.5 percent.

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier – that is if we know what we’re using. With a variety of free tools on the market, it’s hard to decipher or find the time to investigate the best of the best. Nicholas Gaffney, a partner at Infinite Public Relations in San Francisco, offers a list of his firm’s top choices of collaboration and productivity tools for all generations.

Apparently accountants aren’t the only ones about to face a mass retirement exodus.