Sales and Marketing

Short, effective, to-the-point, and beneficial is how I viewed a recent e-mail request to participate in a survey from PKF Texas. The e-mail is intended for clients and prospects.

I write the "M&A" update box in Practical Accountant's Profession Watch section, and one of the details we give for firms recently merged or acquired is "Niches/Concentrations."

Stefano Vranca, a principal at Rothstein Kass’s Beverly Hills, Calif., office, sees lawsuits in the entertainment industry up close.As head of the firm’s litigation and forensics practice, he often handles royalty reviews and negotiations for various movie studios. Vranca has noticed an increasing reliance on “creative accounting” by businesses of all types as the economy goes sour and companies try to eke out revenues whatever way they can.

Education consultancy Professional Education Services has created an affiliate program for CPAs and certified financial planners to give them access to its college-funding software.

Memphis CPA firm Watkins Uiberall has teamed up with management consultancy J. William Appling & Associates to form Watkins Uiberall Strategic Consulting Group.

Many accounting firms and their clients are going to continue facing staffing shortages, so a great deal of attention will be paid on attracting and retaining talent. The focus so far has been primarily on entry-level and more senior staff with a few years’ experience. I believe that more firms and businesses will soon also be paying increased attention to retiring and soon-to be-retiring individuals.

Intuit has introduced a light-hearted online rock-and-roll jingle generator for small businesses, featuring an Austin Powers look-alike named Tommy Silk.

Wolf, Weis & Horowitz has merged into Kutchins, Robbins & Diamond, combining two Chicago-area firms.

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When I am a loss for the subject of a column, all I have to do is go to the Internet and I quickly find something to write about. What I found is a SEC press release that states the SEC has charged a mutual fund manager with violating socially responsible investing restrictions in socially responsible mutual funds that investors were told would not contain securities issued by companies involved with producing weapons, alcohol, tobacco, or gambling products.