Audit & Accounting

Nerds are officially cool -- cool enough to have recently overshadowed their prototypical rivals, jocks.

What makes a visionary? The question was broached obliquely several times throughout the American Institute of CPAs' 2nd annual E.D.G.E. Conference, held in mid-August in Orlando, Fla.

Half a dozen accounting firms have been selected to help oversee compliance by the five banks that agreed to a mammoth national mortgage settlement.

With our annual Top 100 Most Influential People list as its centerpiece, the September issue of Accounting Today is always a celebration of the individual in accounting.

A reader responds to an earlier letter about columnists Miller & Bahnson

A roundup of merger & acquisition activity among accounting firms

The July 16, 2012, homepage for Yahoo! had an article called "Six Careers for People Who Don't Like People." As I read the article, my worst fear was realized: Heading the list was "Accountants."

What do you think when you hear the word "coach?"

Partners are the culture in a professional service firm -- what they believe, what they reward, what they do, and how they do it determines what and how things get done.

Boy, did President Obama create a furor in a Roanoke, Va., speech in July, where he said, "If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."