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IMGCAP(1)]As a consultant to the accounting profession, I have often struggledwith this question. Consultants diagnose a firm, provide somesuggestions for change, the partners seem to accept those suggestionsand then not much happens. This is as frustrating for the firm as theconsultant.

Did you know if you are watching a man and a woman in a casual conversation and the man starts to pull up his socks, it usually means he wants to ask the woman out on a date?

Rebecca Ryan, 2EO of Next Generation Consulting, calls them the “Giant Brain People,” a term probably equivalent to the Dream Team in the accounting profession.

It can be described as Fortune Magazine meets Oprah. “It” in this context is Pink Magazine and its founder, Genevieve Bos, who was on hand to usher in the formal beginning to The Forum for Women in Accounting and The Forum for Recruiting and Retention.

Though registration is down this year, the participants here at the Wynn in Las Vegas attending The Forum for Women in Accounting and The Forum for Recruiting and Retention are seemingly happy to be here and are enjoying the intimately sized sessions that The Advisory Board planned for this year’s double event.

Accounting and consulting firm Sikich LLP has acquired Levi Littell Herbst & Co., a boutique M&A advisory firm that specializes in transactions under $100 million in value.

Optimism among small-business owners has fallen for the second month in a row, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business, mainly due to a decline in expectations that business conditions would improve in six months.

Accounting firm Lyndon Group has created a privacy leadership services practice area tailored to servicing local small and midsized businesses.

The Institute of Management Accountants has formed a new XBRL Advisory Committee to focus on the untapped market needs created by interactive data-tagging technology.

Bay Area accounting firms Greenstein Rogoff Olsen & Co. and Ronald G. Boyer Accountancy Corp., plan to merge on August 14.