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

This issue of Generational Viewpoints features two individuals from Barfield, Murphy, Shank & Smith, and their responses to the following question: "How important is firm culture and what specific factors related to it are most important to you?"

IMGCAP(1)]Many view leadership, management and administration as synonymous, but there are primary differences. It is not unusual for firms to expect individuals to possess the skills required for each. However, an individual's unique abilities will determine whether they enjoy the responsibilities and are successful.

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.

Unprecendented levels of uncertainty wreak havoc on year-end planning

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.

Congress has a lot of tax issues on its plate between now and the end of the year.

Today's Killer VARs go far beyond software sales

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