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Lessons Sears Could Learn from Small Business
- Friday, 10 February 2012
- Running a Firm
- Written by Gene Marks
Here's a myth: a box of baking soda keeps a refrigerator smelling fresh. Maybe that's the case for some people, like New Yorkers who eat out most of the time or families that, well, clean their refrigerator. Our house has three teenage kids and two working parents. We don't have the time to clean our refrigerator. It really smells. That's because if the food doesn't get eaten; it usually just crawls away on its own. A pallet of baking soda wouldn't make much of a difference.
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BKD Picks Watson to Run Dallas-Waco
- Wednesday, 22 February 2012
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Tom Watson had been named as managing partner of BKD's Dallas-Waco practice. Watlson is the South Region industry leader for the BKD National Health Care Group and began his career at BKD as a staff intern in 1991 and then took a full-time position in the firm's Little Rock, Ark., office the following year.
EisnerAmper Names Mack Insurance Group Head
- Thursday, 09 February 2012
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
EisnerAmper has named James Mack to head its Insurance Industry Practice. That group serves more than 125 property and casualty, life and healthcare insurance clients. Mack also leads the firm's Consulting Services Group.
Gainer, Donnelly Names Partners
- Wednesday, 01 February 2012
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Houston, Texas-based Gainer, Donnelly & Desroches has named two new partners. The promotions went to Anna Johnson in tax and Alyssa Hill in audit and follows a series of promotions made in January.
Is it a People or Process Issue?
- Wednesday, 01 February 2012
- Running a Firm
- Written by Edi Osborne
Behind every well-run business there are people and processes. Incidentally, behind every struggling business there are people and processes. Read the first two sentences again, it is not a misprint. The very same components that make one company successful are also present in those who struggle to get by.
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Social Media and Speaking with One Voice
- Wednesday, 01 February 2012
- Running a Firm
- Written by Bob Scott
While social media is a relatively new set of tools, one of the problems it can produce is a pretty old one. And that is the failure of organizations to establish rules that enable a business to have a consistent voice in the market. And the fact that firms are not training their employees in the use of social media should ensure that this old problem affects new tools as well as old ones.
Read more...Yeo & Yeo Names Two Principals
- Thursday, 26 January 2012
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Yeo & Yeo, a CPA firm based in Saginaw, Mich., has named two new principals. Brian Dixon in the Saginaw office and Rebecca Millsap, based in Flint, were promoted this month.
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Tough Times for Independent Preparers
- Tuesday, 24 January 2012
- Running a Firm
- Written by Bob Scott
The final story awaits the conclusion of this tax season. But the developments over the last two years point to rougher times ahead for independent tax preparers. These are the businesses that are not part of a tax chain or a CPA firm.
Read more...Astore Becomes Rodman Partner
- Wednesday, 18 January 2012
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Thomas H. Astore, CPA, JD, has been promoted to partner at Rodman & Rodman. Astore joined the Newton, Mass.-based accounting firm in July 2008 as tax manager and was promoted to tax director in April 2009.
W&A Picks LaChapelle as Partner
- Monday, 16 January 2012
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Weinstein & Anastasio has named Kevin F. LaChapelle as partner. LaChapelle joined the Hamden, Conn.-based firm in 1996 and began focusing on financial reporting, audits and review/compilation of financial statements in the construction, manufacturing and service industries.
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