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PricewaterhouseCoopers has created a new video for YouTube featuring five women on the firm’s U.S. Leadership Team.

Last week, my team was able to achieve the highest of highs and lowest of lows. We celebrated in acquiring a new client that we sought to work with for the past two years. And we booed (or sighed in despair) when a colleague advised the firm that he would be transferring to a company in a different city. We hooted and hollered when the U.S. scored a goal to go up 2-1 on Portugal and we cried (literally for some of us) when Portugal scored in the last 30 seconds to tie the game.

In American corporate culture today, you can expect that many employees in any field hope to become part of upper management one day.

I recently attended a mixer for bankers, attorneys and CPAs in my area and I ran into a manager from a competing CPA firm.

Developing accountability in your staff is simple, consultant John Spence told a gathering of accountants here -- but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

Through the years there have always been subtle changes for managing partners and CEOs, and their reporting partners and managers, in the functions and activities of managing the firm or company.

Employers added 179,000 jobs in the private sector in May, according to payroll giant ADP, although the pace of job growth slowed somewhat from April.

College graduates are entering the workforce this month and are finding opportunities in some sectors, particularly finance and accounting.

The effects of the Affordable Care Act may be weighing less heavily on the hiring plans of U.S. privately held companies this year, according to a survey of accountants who work with small businesses.

Planning is a trait of most accountants including me. Maybe that is one reason we become accountants. I always seemed to write out plans—for myself, partners, staff and sometimes personal activities.

Keeping your staff happy and feeling appreciated is one of the primary challenges facing accounting managers today.

A task force at the American Institute of CPAs is urging CPAs to embrace new ways of learning and professional development to compete better in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.

American Institute of CPAs president and CEO Barry Melancon discussed the need for greater diversity at CPA firms as efforts at greater inclusion seem to be running into some headwinds.

Adaptive Professional Solutions has debuted an online marketplace for temporary accounting and finance staffing.

AccountantsWorld president Jeff Gramlich discusses pricing pressures, competition for talent, commoditization, cloud technology and other challenges confronting accountants over the next five years, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

If you have been reading these Art of Accounting articles, you probably know some of my early work history, but I will reiterate it here and complete it.

Senior financial executives are becoming more involved in the oversight of human resource functions, at least up in Canada, that is.

Consulting may be an attractive career move for CFOs who may not be ready to stop working when they retire, according to a new poll.

Making partner at a Big Four accounting firm in the United Kingdom is no longer a privilege enjoyed only by those born in wealthy families, according to a new academic study.

I was lucky to get my second job in accounting, but I received a salary that was $5 lower than my first job (which I had been fired from), so I took the job.