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Internal audit departments are making greater use of innovative technologies such as data visualization, according to a new report.

The AICPA announced on Wednesday that Dr. Penne Ainsworth is the winner of the 2016 AICPA Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award. She was honored at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association (AAA) in Manhattan this month.

Succeeding at the sales process is one of the more challenging aspects of your role as a CPA. In most cases, you have to sell your own work. For most CPAs, sales does not come naturally and frustration can build quickly when things aren’t moving in a positive direction.

Privately held companies are scaling back their hiring plans, according to a survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers, partly due to fretfulness over the presidential election.

According to a new Accountemps survey, some twenty-three percent of polled CFOs said their firms are doing more entry-level hiring today than five years ago, with another 65 percent saying their efforts have remained the same. For those more actively hiring, an "innovative spirit" (30 percent) and enthusiasm (22 percent) were the most cited reason for seeking more entry-level professionals.

The AICPA and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) announced on Tuesday that they have expanded their AICPA-CIMA Competency and Learning website to support all major practice areas in management accounting and public accounting with new learning resources and competency-development tools.

We're celebrating New Vision CPA Group's 10th Anniversary! In honor of this milestone, I thought I’d write out 10 lessons I’ve learned over the years:

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) announced on Tuesday the recipients of its Accounting Education Research Grants Program for 2016. Faculty and postdoctoral researchers from three U.S. institutions were awarded research grants totaling $24.500.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board is seeing more desire from investors for improved sustainability reporting, as evidenced by a wave of comment letters to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Internal Auditor magazine announced on Monday that Laura Gajski, a graduate student in business administration from Robert Morris University, is the winner of the publication's second annual essay contest.