Let’s begin with a few thought provoking questions about what business is and what it is, or is not… What is the essence of business? How do you boil it down to what is most fundamental? Is it your product or service, your people, your profitability, your services to the community? Yes, these are all aspects of a business, but there …

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In a Paine Field building that had been scheduled for demolition, a new center to train the next generation of aerospace workers was dedicated Thursday in Everett.…

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. has begun randomly auditing up to 50 continuing-education courses each month following criticism from advisers about substandard courses they've taken.…

Nobody takes Gary Henkel's courses for sheer entertainment. After all, taking required courses to keep your insurance license up-to-date isn't exactly scintillating.…

Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Burns & Wilcox Ltd. has created a Web-based portal within its corporate university--The Kaufman Institute--to deliver online education, training and development services to insurance professionals.…

Accountant, CEO and executive director of the Maryland Association of CPAs, Tom Hood might not look like the kind of guy who spends a lot of time in an imaginary world. But he does—at work. And he encourages other accountants to do the same. That’s because MACPA runs continuing education sessions for accountants in Second …

One of the many challenges businesses face in an economic downturn is how to stay innovative and relevant without breaking budgets and over-extending already-stretched staff. Historically, corporate training budgets and staff are substantially reduced in tough economic times so there is a strong possibility that 2010 will see additional cuts or, at best, flat budgets. …

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The young college graduates, now new members of Ernst & Young's auditing team, faced one of their first audit assignments: testing the accuracy of year-end physical inventory counts taken by personnel at a cookie manufacturer. Many inventory items like raw cookie dough, sugar, and chocolate chips were stacked on large shelves throughout the warehouse, and …

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Lawsuits are not going away. Lloyd's of London, which sells specialty insurance to businesses in 200 countries and territories, recently released a global survey of executives who say that the rest of the world is starting to catch up to the USA in lawsuits, and they say that is driving up costs and stifling risk-taking. …

Following the highly publicized corporate failures of organizations such as Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and others, in the summer of 2002, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) put out the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Glenn Davis, partner and practice leader of the corporate governance group at accounting and consulting firm J.H. Cohn LLP, said SOX essentially promoted what he …