2012-05-23: Fifteen percent of chief financial officers around the world are willing to pay make cash payments to win or retain business, according to a survey of executives interviewed by the accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP.

2012-05-22: Existing-home sales up 18% The metro-area housing market posted another strong month, with sales of existing homes in April rising 18 percent from a year ago.

2012-05-22: City Council voted on a number of items Monday evening before the announcement thatA Buffalo Wild Wings will be coming to St.

2012-05-22: Telecom tariffs will rise by 90 paise a minute in metros and 20-34 paise on an average across the country if the sector regulator's recommendations on spectrum pricing are accepted, suggests a study.

2012-05-22: The accounting and business advisory firm BKD LLP has named Ted Dickman its next chief executive officer.

2012-05-22: May 22, 2012 -- Big4.com, the premier social networking forum for professionals and alumni of Accenture, Andersen, BearingPoint, Capgemini, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers, PwC reports that in a speech made May 18 by Andrew Sentance, PwC's senior economic advisor, charities were warned the 'new normal' economic world will ... (more)

2012-05-22: About 60 billion euros has been raised to buy so-called noncore loan assets currently held by European banks, according to the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

2012-05-21: Ever wonder what Houston looks like from the high steel window of a top executive at a giant firm like New York-based KPMG LLP? Sitting in a conference room directly above KPMG's annual Global Energy Conference, I took some time on May 17 to speak with ... Read the full story at Houston Business Journal IAEA chief says talks in Iran 'positive' ... (more)

2012-05-21: 'I wouldn't count OO out just yet simply because of ONE reason... the license,' said Slashdot blogger hairyfeet.

2012-05-21: Almost two-thirds of small businesses do not have a presence on the internet, although those that have websites are enjoying more impressive financial results.

2012-05-21: Thank you for your interest in the Cost Segregation - Construction Estimator Internship .

2012-05-20: Construction firm Mohammad Al Mojil Group said on Sunday its chief executive had resigned and it was appointing PricewaterhouseCoopers to advise it on its financial performance.

2012-05-20: According to a report by Deloitte and Touche, advertising income in Lebanon is expected to reach $145.1m this year, representing around 3% of total advertising income in the Arab world, while advertising expense is also expected to increase by 1% during the year, The Daily Star has reported.

2012-05-20: Brookdale Senior Living Inc. Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2012 Health Care Conference May 17, 2012 11:40 AM ET It's my pleasure to introduce Brookdale Senior Living.

2012-05-19: Vitals: 56 years old; bachelor's in political science and finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977; MBA, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Glendale, Ariz., 1978; consultant, Arthur Andersen & Co., 1978-79; various positions including vice president and managing director, syndications group, First National Bank of Chicago, ... (more)

2012-05-19: Dennis M. Nally, chairman of global consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers , said Friday that the firm will continue to expand its business in China, as it is positive about the country's economic outlook.

2012-05-18: TALLAGHT Hospital ignored normal rules of tendering and cost control when it hired outside consultants for 1.8m to find out how well it was run, it emerged yesterday.

2012-05-18: In a former post, here , we showed the influence of contango conditions on the profit from investment in four commodities: Oil, natural gas, gold and silver.

2012-05-18: Clarence Joseph Weldon Smith, Jr., who is affectionately known as Smitty, was granted his wish to visit the 9/11 Memorial in New York City last week, thanks to Brookdale Senior Living and Jeremy Bloom's Wish of a Lifetime.

2012-05-18: Now that Apache OpenOffice 3.4 has been released, IBM has begun to take formal steps to re-integrate its Lotus Symphony fork of OpenOffice.org back into the OpenOffice mainline.

2012-05-18: THE financial mess that TransNamib finds itself in cannot only be attributed to poor control and ignorance of policy guidelines, but started with a number of weaknesses identified during the annual preparation of its budget.

2012-05-18: About two years ago, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield implemented a self-service business intelligence platform to aggregate and analyze vast amounts of data from multiple repositories scattered throughout the company.

2012-05-18: Roundy's operates grocery stores under the Pick 'n Save, Metro Market, Copps, Rainbow and Mariano's Fresh Market names.

2012-05-17: The University of Otago has questioned the inclusion of $900,000 the Dunedin City Council spent on the western wall of Forsyth Barr Stadium as 'unexpected costs', saying it was part of the council's budget for the project 'from day 1'. The council shared the cost of the $1.8 million wall, which separates the university building and the western side ... (more)

2012-05-17: HollyFrontier Corp : HolyFrontier was removed from Deutsche Bank's short-term buy list due to an automatic time demotion.

2012-05-17: SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSuite SuiteWorld 2012 - NetSuite Inc., , the industry's leading provider of cloud -based financials / ERP software suites, announced today that Grant Thornton LLP, the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, has become a NetSuite System Integrator .

2012-05-17: The Australian arm of global firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has been named the country's top employer for LGBT people in 2012.

2012-05-17: Intuit , which is well positioned to take advantage of the migration of small business to the cloud, is scheduled to report fiscal third-quarter 2012 results tomorrow, May 17, after the end of the trading day.

2012-05-17: Tielei Wang discovered that OpenOffice.org does not allocate a large enough memory region when processing a specially crafted JPEG object, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow and potentially arbitrary code execution.

2012-05-16: Hash: SHA512 CVE-2012-2334 Vulnerabilities related to malformed Powerpoint files in OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 Reference: http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2012-2334.html Severity: Important Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: OpenOffice.org 3.3 and 3.4 Beta, on all platforms.