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The Educational Foundation of the Colorado Society of CPAs recently awarded $100,000 in college scholarships for the Fall 2016 term. Founded in 1958, the Foundation seeks to promote accounting education in Colorado colleges and universities by helping students pursue a CPA career.

Donald Trump’s revamped tax plan stands in stark contrast to his rival Hillary Clinton’s plan, although many of the differences go back to the traditional split between the Republican and Democratic approaches to tax reform.

BKR International recently presented its annual scholarship awards to honor global accounting students for their individual achievements in the profession. The program awards $3,000 per student toward the cost of obtaining an accounting credential in their respective countries.

The AICPA announced on Tuesday the winners of the Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award, presented at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in Manhattan. Top honors went to the article "Earnings Quality: Evidence from the Field," which appeared in the Journal of Accounting and Economics in 2013.

The American Accounting Association’s Auditing Section has introduced a database summarizing research papers on auditing that were published in seven academic journals.

Becker Professional Education announced this month that they'll be adding new tools and technology to their CPA Exam Review in the coming months. The new improvements to the course will include modular content, interactive tools and integrated materials to offer more custom options, flexibility and feedback to test-takers.

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.