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The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) announced on Tuesday the launch of IIA Learning OnDemand, an online, self-paced learning resource that provides continuing education opportunities and tools to support internal audit professionals in their daily lives.

The staffing company Accounting Principals analyzed the best states for accounting and finance professionals to live in by tracking the number of accounting and financial positions in each state from 2009 to 2016 to see how well each state’s job prospects are growing. Texas came out on top.

Top executives whose pay is linked to the stock prices of the companies they oversee are more likely to make stealth disclosures when their companies are forced to restate their financials, according to a new study.

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy’s National Registry of CPE Sponsors has opened a newly redesigned website where organizations, continuing professional education providers, state accountancy boards and CPAs can find information about providing and taking CPE courses across the country.

The Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants (VSCPA) announced this week the launch of LEAD (Learn, Engage, Advocate, Drive), a new initiative looking give professionals the proper resources to develop into future leaders.

The Sarbanes-Oxley provision requiring senior financial officers to adopt a code of ethics tended to reduce the number of earnings restatements by their companies, according to a new study.

According to a 2011 Charles Schwab study, some 86 percent of teens claimed they want to learn money management in class before making a mistake in the real world. In response to this, H&R Block Budget Challenge will once again be rolling out sessions beginning Sept. 8 in high schools across the country.

The Business Learning Institute announced on Tuesday that twenty up-and-coming professionals have graduated from their 2016 Leadership Academy. Held Aug. 24-26 in Towson, Md., the annual event gathers top CPAs and teaches them strategic thinking, leadership skills, and network-building.

Executives are worried about whether their companies are doing enough to protect themselves against financial crimes such as money laundering and fraud in the wake of the release of the Panama Papers.

Nonprofit organizations and their accountants may want to adopt Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new standard for not-for-profits early before they have to begin adjusting to some of the other new standards coming out from FASB.