- The Future of Financial Staffing
The supply of experienced financial talent in the United States is finite -- and getting more expensive. [more]
- Accountants Tell the Truth? Yeah, That's the Ticket
The public image of accountants must be improving, since a recent Harris Interactive poll of 1,002 adults in the United States found that 68 percent would trust their accountants to tell the truth, compared with 55 percent in 2002. [more]
- AICPA Issues Guidebook for Cultural Change in Public Accounting
In "Promoting Your Talent: A Guidebook for Women and Their Firms," issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' Work/Life and Women's Initiatives Executive Committee, author Nancy R. [more]
- Business Leaders More Confident Than Last Year
It seems like I just wrote a few months back about how CFO confidence was down, but they're always the pessimists, aren't they? [more]
- Will Greenbrim.com Make Financial Staffing Firms Obsolete?
Bidding for accounting and auditing talent -- and cutting out the middleman -- makes perfect sense to audit industry veteran Robert Stewart, whose Green Brim online marketplace is creating quite a media buzz as a potential "eBay for accountants. [more]
- Enron Gives Birth to the Chief Accounting Officer
The Summer issue of Business Ethics magazine contains an interesting article -- Ethics After Enron -- that examines how many executives are taking ethics programs very seriously, making sure that they are more than "just corporate window-dressing. [more]
- CFOs Less Optimistic About U.S. Economy, Survey Shows
Although CFOs plan to increase capital spending and hiring this year, they are growing more pessimistic about the U.S. [more]
- SEC to Overhaul Executive Compensation Rules
Beginning next year, the SEC will require public companies to provide more information than ever about executive compensation in what amounts to the largest overhaul of benefit disclosure policy since 1992. [more]
- The (Bleak) Future of Corporate Retirement Planning
It's no secret that the imminent retirement of the Baby Boom generation will have a huge impact on health care, the availability of talent, younger workers and retirement planning in general. [more]
- Private Pension Reform Could Increase Federal Burden
Congressional reform of U.S. [more]
- Navigating Rising Pension Risks
Market volatility and a complex compliance environment are making it increasingly difficult for companies to mitigate fiduciary risk in their pension plans, and a number of companies are freezing their plans to slow the growth of liabilities -- although this does little to alleviate market and mortality risks, according to Business Finance contributing editor Fay Hansen. [more]
- Executive Pensions at the Heart of Retirement Crisis
The drain that workers' pensions represent to American auto companies (and other large industries) has been widely publicized, but according to the Wall Street Journal Online, that shortfall is the direct result of overly generous executive pensions. [more]
- Renew Your CPA License Online
Add Alabama, South Carolina and New Mexico as recent additions to the growing list of states offering accountants the option of renewing their CPA licenses online. [more]
- Do Ethics Classes Build Better Criminals?
Just like doing hard time can be the ultimate in a criminal education, it appears that students immersed in ethics classes in business schools may be more likely to engage in misconduct or misuse information for insider trading, as evinced by a trading room "simulation" over a semester at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass.
- SEC Fines Lack Teeth, Often Go Unpaid
Although the SEC continues to fine individual public accountants for misconduct, much of the time the money is never collected, according to this Associated Press article published by SmartPros. [more]
- Majority of Professional Accountants Are Now Women
In 1951, there were 500 women accountants in the entire country. [more]
- Former Enron Directors: Where Are They Now?
They probably don't want the publicity, but we're all curious, so the Washington Post recently published a tidy roundup and profile of Lay and Skilling's former colleagues -- most of whom, it notes, emerged relatively unscathed from the fallout. [more]
- AICPA Member Data Missing Since February
These days if you want privacy, follow these guidelines: don't keep your money in a bank, don't join the military, and don't join any professional organizations. [more]
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