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Some Asian accountancy students are landing jobs way before they graduate, especially if they had been interns in the firm in their earlier undergraduate years and deemed good enough to be offered a permanent place, according to a Singapore publication.

From Accounting Technology editor Bob Scott’s most recent popular e-letter “Consulting Insights" comes this Random Thought: “I’ve decided if I were a public official, I would run government like a business, meaning I would invest in financial instruments, treat my employees as disposable, and pay out enormous and unmerited bonuses.”

Employees at the Internal Revenue Service are running up millions of dollars in charges on agency-issued telephone calling cards with little control over their spending.

About 89 percent of the 150 audit committee members at a recent KPMG conference said that the financial crisis had caused their company’s board or audit committee to change the nature and scope of its oversight.

ADP has launched ADP Access, a retirement program that combines the benefits of ADP’s 401(k) plan recordkeeping services and the guidance of a financial advisor.

CCH has expanded the audit modules in its Accounting Research Manager database with expert guidance on topics such as construction and not-for-profit accounting.

The New York State Society of CPAs has named William Donaldson and Sidney Kess to its Hall of Fame.

Is it OK for accountants to give their less profitable clients the boot and only keep the ones that make their firms the most money? Read more in the Accounting Tomorrow blog.

Is it OK for accountants to give their less profitable clients the boot and only keep the ones that make their firms the most money?

“First in war, first in peace and last in the American League,” was the battle cry for the Washington Senators, the capital’s long-defunct Major League representative and an amusing yet historic study in baseball futility.