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Ensuring meaningful accountability requires management, and there is a crisis of under-management in most accounting firms. In his book It's OK to Be the Boss, Bruce Tulgan explains how many leaders and managers struggle with the entire concept of management. I've observed that a majority of partners in accounting firms either lack management skills or prefer not to manage. The words empowerment and micromanagement are often used as excuses for managers not spending time with those reporting to them (unless there is a crisis).

The U.S. Small Business Administration has introduced an online training course to help more small businesses get federal contracts.

Private sector employment fell by 298,000 in the U.S. last month, according to data from payroll giant ADP.

To clarify the status of the case of the former IRS agent who filed suit after she was fired for carrying a small ceremonial dagger to work, I talked to one of her legal representatives.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has released the executive summary of a report from its inspector general detailing the agency’s failures to stop Bernard Madoff from carrying out his Ponzi scheme.

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Adam Wolf walks the walk at Grassi & Co.

”We have to banish complacency and embrace change so we can awaken the power of women in our firms,” according to Rita Keller, president and founder of Keller Advisors in Beavercreek, Ohio. Keller was facilitating a session called “A New Day for Women in Public Accounting” at the Forum for Women in Accounting in Las Vegas.

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