AT Think

Marketing and sales are time-consuming but necessary to getting more business. For most CPAs with whom I work, time is always a challenge. Most think doing more is the answer, but not always.

The Weaver Private Foundation named Feed the Children its Charity of Choice for fiscal year 2012-13, contributing $45,000 to the organization in conjunction with local partner agencies where the Southwest accounting firm has offices.

As many as 500 Ernst & Young professionals will be deployed in New York City to deliver financial literacy, entrepreneurship, college and career-readiness education to 3,000 K-12 NYC public school students Friday, May 17, as part of the annual day of community service, EY Connect Day.

The Women’s Executive Committee of the Illinois CPA Society is hosting a Women’s Leadership Breakfast Friday, May 17, featuring documentarian and author Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope as speaker.

CPA, comedian and Accounting Today Twitter personality favorite Greg Kyte will be participating in the Laughing Devil Comedy Festival in Long Island City Tuesday night, May 14.

On the heels of a new Twitter page and Web site for tax reform launched by the leaders of Congress’s two main tax committees, a coalition of advocacy groups has issued a Twitter challenge to Grover Norquist’s influential lobbying group, Americans for Tax Reform.

Do you remember hearing about that crazy group of CPAs who played trampoline dodgeball at the AICPA’s Tech+ Practitioner’s Symposium last year? Did you think to yourself, “Hey, I want hang with them!”

The Central Texas Chapter of the Texas Society of CPAs has established a relief fund for members affected by the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion last month.

The CPA Consultants' Alliance has produced an animated video to accompany a research study on CPA firms’ challenges when their leaders contemplate succession planning.

For Martin Abo, home decorating might mean a trip to the local novelty shop.