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AccountingWEB.com - NewsNew time management techniques
By David Tighe
Time management remains a core focus within leadership, coaching, and mentoring programs.
Inevitably, to keep the subject fresh, new buzz words and soon-to-be clichés pop up to put new clothes on old concepts. You take the new label with a grain of salt, but sometimes the new label makes sense.
Profile of a fraudster: Does your company have one?
A fraud suspect might not be easy to pick out of a crowd -- or from a rap sheet.
The average fraud perpetrator has no prior fraud charges or convictions, according to new research by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), provider of anti-fraud training and education. The offender is commonly between the age of 31-45, and somewhat more likely to be male than female.
IRS can spell tax relief for disaster victims
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help you" may be regarded by some to be the most terrifying words in the English language, but not so when you are dealing with a disaster. Once the federal government has declared your location to be a major disaster zone, there are plenty of assistance programs--but to qualify for federal loans and grants, you must have filed a return for the most recently completed tax year. That can be a big problem if you lost important records when the disaster struck that are necessary to complete your return.
Beta Alpha Psi student and faculty volunteers clean up San Jose Guadalupe River
More than 900 members of Beta Alpha Psi (BAP), the professional honors organization for financial information students and professionals, supported by 50 employees from KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, descended on the Guadalupe River trail last month to undertake a massive clean-up effort, sponsored by KPMG and the KPMG Foundation.
2010 AccountingWEB accounting student scholarship winners announced
AccountingWEB is pleased to announce that three winners have been chosen as the 2010 AccountingWEB Accounting Student Scholarship winners.
Entrants were required to write a 500-word essay on the topic of "The Role of Accountants in Social Media." Essays were judged in a variety of areas including creativity, innovation, quality of writing, structure, logic, and sources/research. All three essays will appear on AccountingWEB.com later this month.
This year's winners are:
