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Kids know how to feed the pig

Benjamin Bankes should be proud. More kids are being exposed to some kind of financial learning these days and that’s good news, according to Money Management International, a nonprofit credit counseling agency that just released the results of its 2010 Kids and Money Survey.

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KPMG Foundation awards $470,000 to minority accounting scholars

Forty-seven minority accounting doctoral students are on the receiving end of $470,000 in scholarships from the KPMG Foundation for the 2010-2011 academic year. Of those 47, 12 new recipients have been named and 35 existing awards have been renewed.

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How deep is your talent bench?

How can it be the end of July already? Here's this month's last installment of "Ask Rebecca." In this post, Rebecca Ryan, generational guru at Next Generation Consulting, talks about just how deep your talent bench should be.

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AICPA establishes new estate planning scholarship

The American Institute of CPAs established a new scholarship honoring the veteran chair of the Institute’s Advanced Estate Planning Conference. The scholarship will pay for one young CPA to attend the conference each year starting in 2011.

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Posted by Liz Gold at 09:21AM | Comments (0)

So you want to hire a marketing director? (Best practices to make your marketing hire succeed)

What do you need to know if you're looking to hire a marketing director? Sarah Johnson from PDI Global offers some helpful tips and strategies to get started in the first part of this two part post.

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Want to win big? Submit a video to ATOM’s GOT TALENT

We know some of you are still busy drumming up submissions for the YouTube contest we’re doing with Next Generation Consulting, ATOM’s GOT TALENT, so that’s why we’re extending our deadline to Sept. 3 AND announcing our prizes. It’s called the motivation factor, folks.

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Posted by Liz Gold at 09:21AM | Comments (0)

Cubester Chat: To network or not to network

By now you probably know about Cubester Chat, the hip column coming out of PKF Texas and published in The Leading Edge magazine. In their summer issue, two young CPAs give advice on how to work that room at a networking event and how it's all very Shakespearean.

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Got a toxic team member? Here’s how to deal

What do you do when your great team is being spoiled by a snotty member that you just want to fire? Generational guru Rebecca Ryan has some ideas and it all starts with documentation.

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Can accountants be hip?

Those at the Passionate Accountant website think so. In case you haven’t heard it yet, there’s a new ring tone floating around the Internet that is – wait for it – a rap song.

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Accounting ... like Mary Kay?

I love a good party. I also love to support my clients, so if one of them is throwing a grand opening or hosting a Friday barbeque, I make great effort to attend. It’s fun and it’s good for business—offering another touch point with my clients. By Jody Padar

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