During the last month and a half the following occurred: Tom Brady and the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl. There is this dress on Facebook and nobody can figure out the color of it. The East Coast has been pounded by snow, and the West Coast will wait another year for winter along with the rain to arrive.

Whether you are graduating from college with a degree in accounting, or moving into the profession from an established career, the first position you will most likely hold in an accounting firm is that of staff accountant.

More accountants like to solve problems than crunch numbers, according to a new survey.

As CPAs, we usually live in a world of absolutes.

A significant number of companies are anticipating an increase in open accounting and finance positions in the second quarter of this year, according to the Chicago-based staffing firm Brilliant.

The accounting profession has long grappled with the question of how to diversify its ranks to provide better representation of women and minorities, particularly in the upper echelons of firms.

Accounting Today’s Top 100 Firms and Regional Leaders shared their strategies of how they retain top talent. You’ll find that some firms are focused on employees' health and some are providing staff with dry cleaning delivery services.

Accounting Today’s Top 100 Firms and Regional Leaders shared their strategies onhow they attract new talent to their firm. Some firms are shelling out the dough with sweet recruitment bonuses and reimbursement programs, while others are beefing up their search at colleges and universities.

Financial Accounting Foundation president and CEO Terri Polley sits down with Accounting Today managing editor Tamika Cody to share how the foundation plans to attract more people of color to the profession and why the FAF teamed up with the National Association of Black Accountants.

Compensation for management accounting and finance professionals rose by an average of 7.1 percent last year, according to a new survey, but some specialties received raises while others saw their salaries remain stagnant.

Too many accounting firms don’t engage enough with new staff

EY gives staff a new way of looking at the world

Financial Accounting Foundation president and CEO Terri Polley explains what the organization is trying to achieve with its career initiative.

Payroll and HR technology giant ADP is offering accountants and their small-business clients free access this tax season to the ADP HR HelpDesk through April 30, 2015.

Xero’s Jamie Sutherland and Intraprise TechKnowlogies’ Donny Shimamoto sat down for a conversation about the cloud and its role in accounting firms; here, they discuss how firms may be losing staff because they’re not adapting fast enough, and different ways they can explore the cloud.

The New York-based accounting firm Mitchell & Titus recently celebrated its 40th anniversary as one of the oldest and most prominent minority-controlled firms in accounting.

Approximately one-third (32 percent) of CFOs in a recent survey believe they would be more productive if their employees had greater autonomy at work.

Wages grew slightly in the fourth quarter, particularly for people who switched jobs, according to a new report from payroll giant ADP.

Deloitte LLP made a historic move this week, naming Cathy Engelbert as the first female CEO of a Big Four accounting firm.

Although many corporate tax and accounting departments are preparing for the March deadline, mistakes related to tax and accounting cost U.S. businesses billions each year.