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Accounting Today Editor-in-Chief Leaves for Transition Advisors

Transition Advisors Announces Bill Carlino as Managing Director – National Consulting Services

Transition Advisors LLC, an international consulting organization, is pleased to announce that Bill Carlino, veteran journalist, and former editor-in-chief of Accounting Today, will assume the position of Managing Director – National Consulting Services, effective March 19, 2012.

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Do CPAs Have a Role in Business Intelligence

A few years ago, companies that included Thomson, CCH and Sage started marketing products that let users perform scenarios within financial statements. They could change entries in profit and loss statements or on balance sheets and the numbers would ripple through the system. They could also calculate ratios as part of providing clients insight into their businesses. These tools are part of business intelligence, although by no means all of the capabilities that fall under that often-abused term.

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Lessons Sears Could Learn from Small Business

refrigeratorHere'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. Read more...

BKD Picks Watson to Run Dallas-Waco

Tom Watson, BKDTom 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.

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EisnerAmper Names Mack Insurance Group Head

James Mack, EisnerAmperEisnerAmper 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.

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Gainer, Donnelly Names Partners

Alyssa HillHouston, 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.

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Is it a People or Process Issue?

flow chart artBehind 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. Read more...

Social Media and Speaking with One Voice

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.

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Yeo & Yeo Names Two Principals

Rebecca Millsap, Yeo & YeoYeo & 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. Read more...

Tough Times for Independent Preparers

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.

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