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Business Definition for: Accounting Department

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Moss Adams donates to WWU's accounting department
Moss Adams, the 11th-largest accounting and consulting firm in the United States, recently donated $32,000 to the Western Washington University accounting department, as part of the Moss Adams Faculty Fellow endowment program. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The program supports the faculty's research activities and assists the department in retaining high-quality...
Tags: accounting, FINANCE, Western Washington University
Research articles 2008-06-01
Accounting Outsourcing: The Perfect Answer To Your Accounting Needs
If you own a business, whether big or small, you would certainly agree that maintaining an in-house accounting department is not as easy as it seems. It is partly for this reason that outsourcing your accounting tasks makes complete sense. Instead of running into the endless hassles of maintaining your...
Tags: Accounting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2009-01-01
MSU accounting chairman named to national standards board.(Michigan State University)(Thomas Linsmeier)(Financial Accounting Standards Board)(Brief article)
Byline: Katie Maurer Thomas Linsmeier, chairman of the accounting department at Michigan State University, has been appointed to the Financial Accounting Standards Board. FASB is a private-sector board that establishes standards of financial ac Byline: Katie Maurer ...
Tags: accounting, financial, Financial Accounting Standards Board, Michigan State University
Research articles 2006-05-22
Koor's Internal Audit Department To Be Eliminated.(Koor Industries Ltd.)
As soon as Koor's new management is in place, one of its first acts will be a general company wide reorganization. The outline of this reorganization calls for Koor's internal audit department to be scrapped and its function transferred to an outside accounting firm. This will...
Tags: Koor Industries Ltd.
Research articles 1998-06-30
Market-value accounting could have been worse. (Financial Accounting Standards Board requirement that banks value some securities at current market prices) (Brief Article)
Accountants aren't known for their sense of humor. As one CEO put it, "I don't generally like to hear laughter coming from my accounting department." Accountants aren't known for their sense of humor. As one CEO put it, "I don't generally like to hear...
Tags: accounting, bank, Financial Accounting Standards Board, security
Research articles 1993-06-01
Accounting Outsourcing - An Easy Solution To Supervise Monetary
The services of accounting outsourcing have out beaten the conventional accounting system and are further developing at a tremendous pace. Accounting outsourcing is an easy and convenient means of managing the activities of finance and accounts in a cost effective way as compared to recruiting immense workforce for carrying out...
Tags: Accounting, Article Alley, Accounting Outsourcing, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2008-09-16
Opt For Efficient Accounting Outsourcing Services For A Tension-Free Business
Solving the accounting nitty-gritty is definitely a very time-consuming task. From ledger, profit and loss account to the main balance sheet, everything needs to be at their correct place to tally the income and loss of the company and thereby reveal its actual financial position to its stake holders. Only...
Tags: Accounting, Accounting Outsourcing, Hiring Accounting Professional, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2009-01-01
InPhonic Adds Two Industry Veterans to Accounting Team; InPhonic Names George Moratis and Jim Vedder to Key Management Roles on the Accounting Team
WASHINGTON -- InPhonic, Inc. (NASDAQ:INPC), a leading online seller of wireless services and products, announced the addition of two seasoned veterans to InPhonic's accounting department. Their addition brings more than 30 years of financial experience at publicly-traded companies, regulatory agencies and accounting firms. Both joined the Company in October and...
Tags: accounting
Research articles 2005-11-16
Settle Your Accounts With Accounting Outsourcing
Accounting outsourcing firms are well recruited with efficient and experienced accountants who have won the attribute of sincerity and commitment. They are highly qualified in the field of accounts and offer best form of services. Moreover, many a time it happens that an owner has to focus on other departments...
Tags: Accounting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2008-05-21
U. accounting professor Barry Cushing, 59, dies
Barry Cushing, a distinguished professor in the School of Accounting at the University of Utah, died March 1, 2005, after a long battle with cancer. He was 59. Dr. Cushing joined the faculty at the University of Utah in 1977. He was chairman of the U.'s accounting department...
Tags: accounting, auditing, FINANCE, professor, University of Utah
Research articles 2005-03-03
HearUSA Appoints Frank Puñal as Chief Accounting Officer
HearUSA, Inc. (AMEX: EAR), a leading provider of hearing care through a fully integrated and professionally accredited system of hearing care centers, has hired Frank Puñal, former chief accounting officer for Jacuzzi Brands, Inc., as HearUSA's chief accounting officer. As part of the executive team, Puñal will lead the...
Tags: Jacuzzi Brands Inc.
Research articles 2008-05-08
Intacct Alliance with OpenAir.com Extends Benefits of Web-based Accounting System to a Variety of Workers
Business Editors and High Tech Writers LOS GATOS, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 20, 2000 Expense and Time Tracking Service Lets Workers Help Accounting Department Control Company Costs Intacct Corporation, the leading provider of professional-strength, web-based accounting and related business services, today announced a strategic alliance with OpenAir.com, a...
Tags: Intacct Corp.
Research articles 2000-09-20
Ready for self-service accounting? Find it in Coda Financials, BUSINESS TIMES
Business Times Malaysia 02-21-2001 THERE was a time when a company's financial and accounting department used to print out a great stack of paper, photocopy it, stick it in envelopes and send it to everyone around. And that was how the...
Tags: accounting, FINANCE, financial, Malaysia, software
Research articles 2001-02-21
Deutsche Telekom to cut 400 accounting, audit posts says report
FRANKFURT AFP — German telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom plans to downsize its accounting department and eliminate 400 jobs, or one-third of its workforce, a press report said Tuesday. Deutsche Telekom, which has suffered a major loss of fixed-line customers, plans to cut the number of German offices that handle...
Tags: accounting, Agence France-Presse, audit, Deutsche Telekom AG, FINANCE
Research articles 2007-11-20
Corefino Secures $13.6 Million for Outsourced Accounting Solution
Bay Partners & Opus Capital Back Innovative Virtual Accounting Department Model SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Corefino, Inc., a growing provider of outsourced accounting and financial solutions, announced today that it has secured $13.6 million in Series A funding co-led by Opus Capital Ventures and Bay Partners, both located in Menlo...
Tags: Bay Partners
Research articles 2008-07-08
North Valley Bancorp Expands Accounting Department
North Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ: NOVB), a multi-bank holding company with $908 million in assets, today reported on the recent expansion of its accounting, finance, and treasury functions.
Tags: accounting
Research articles 2005-12-22
DOJ eyes AOL. (The Week That Was).(Department of Justice accounting investigation)(Brief Article)
The Justice Department is investigating allegations of accounting irregularities at AOL Time Warner. "In the current environment, when anyone raises a question about accounting, it's not surprising that the relevant government agencies will wa The Justice Department is investigating allegations of accounting irregularities...
Tags: accounting, America Online Inc., U.S. Department of Justice
Research articles 2002-08-05
Linsmeier new FASB board member.(Financial Accounting Standards Board)(Thomas J. Linsmeier)(Brief article)
The Financial Accounting Foundation FAF Trustees appointed Thomas J. Linsmeier to the Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB. Linsmeier is the Russell E. Palmer Endowed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Accounting and Information Sys The Financial Accounting Foundation FAF Trustees appointed Thomas J. Linsmeier...
Tags: board, Financial Accounting Standards Board
Research articles 2006-07-01
DOD looking at Cleveland for 10,000-job pay center. (Department of Defense's plan for payroll and accounting center in Cleveland will require many employees)
DOD looking at Cleveland for 10,000-job pay center Cleveland is in the running to become a Department of Defense accounting and payroll center which could employ as many as 10,000 workers. The Defense Department is considering expanding the 1,500-DOD looking at Cleveland...
Tags: accounting, payroll, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 1991-09-09
Accounting Outsourcing: The Tool To Success
The accounts or in other words, the bookkeeping department is indeed one of the most important departments of any business. Therefore, it is important to involve competent people to take care of this department because this department has the capability of giving a business the tag of a successful or...
Tags: Accounting, Department, Tool, eArticlesOnline.com, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2009-01-01
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