San Diego Business Journal profiles E&Y's Mark Stephens
By Steve Adamek San Diego Business Journal Click here to read the full profile Mark Stephens is the managing partner for Ernst & Young LLP’s San Diego office. Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, advisory services and strategic growth markets. The company has 141,000 staff in 140 countries, with more [...]
Employers Tread a Minefield
By Jeanette Borzo The Wall Street Journal Click here to read the full article Facebook gaffes that can cause trouble in the workplace aren’t unique to drunken college students anymore. As more companies and their workers tap into the world of blogs, Twitter and Facebook, employers are tripping over legal potholes in social media. Next [...]
500+ Ernst & Young Professionals Took a Day Off to Volunteer Throughout LA
On December 3, 2010, 500 Ernst & Young professionals – representing more than half of the firm’s Los Angeles office – fanned out across the county to volunteer at 18 different local organizations. Ranging from working with the animals at the Los Angeles Zoo to teaching kids at the California Science Center, EY employees donated their time [...]
Palisades Expert Helps Establish and Nurture Family Foundations
By Danielle Gillespie The Palisadian Post Click here to read the full article Many philanthropic parents hope that their children will also lead a charitable life, but they wonder how to instill this value. ‘A family foundation can be a wonderful way to teach your children how to give,’ said Julie Williams Lytle, vice president [...]
The Gold Standard: The Hassles and Rewards of Joint Commission Accreditation
In Medical Dealer‘s January 2011 issue, reporter Lanier Horville interviewed experts whose industries deal with Joint Commission accreditation. Jeanette Anders, healthcare business manager of Language Line Services, spoke with Lanier about the necessity for Joint Commission standards for the language service provider industry. A leader in the language interpretation industry, Language Line Services provides services in over 170 languages. Click [...]
Cloudworks Lifts Credit Unions into the Cloud through Partnership with Ongoing Operations for New Hosted IT Solutions
Cloudworks, one of the pioneers in the cloud computing industry, has partnered with Maryland-based Ongoing Operations to offer cloud-based hosted IT solutions for credit unions, including virtual desktops, application hosting and hosted Microsoft Exchange servers. “Integrating our services with Ongoing Operations – whose data centers are developed specifically to meet credit union security and compliance [...]
Startup FlexEnergy Aims To Generate Power From Landfills
By Chris Casacchia Orange County Business Journal Click here to read the full article 2011 could be a big year for Irvine’s FlexEnergy LLC, a startup that’s hoping to reach viability on a system that turns methane gas from landfills into electrical power. The company has test projects in place, its first commercial deal in [...]
OWC's Tracy Williams on Social Media: Easy as One, Two, Click
By Tracy Olmstead Williams As written for The Recorder Click here to access the full article When Los Angeles-based attorney Steve Weinberg got two referrals through LinkedIn, he was intrigued. Like many attorneys and other professional services providers, he’d had a LinkedIn page for years. But when one of the referrals turned into a piece [...]
Investing in Commodities and Futures: Can a commodities index compete with actively managed accounts?
By Alan Snyder, Shinnecock Partners As published in Investment Advisor Click here to read the full article Some of the smartest investors realized years ago that commodities and financial futures belonged in their portfolios. Between practitioners and academic researchers, common agreement was reached that commodities and futures investing (CFI) does lower volatility (risk), increase returns [...]
Small-business Q&A: The status of tax credits for hiring the unemployed
By Karen E. Klein The Los Angeles Times Dear Karen: Is the tax credit for hiring formerly unemployed people going to stay in effect for 2011? Answer: The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act, or HIRE Act, was signed in March as part of President Obama’s $18-billion jobs bill, but it expires at the end [...]
