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CPA Ontario announced on Friday that Logan Joyce, of Kingston's Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School, placed first in the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario's 2016 COIN Competition. The organization held its annual competition on May 4 this year, which looks to give high school students considering a CPA career the opportunity to complete a 75-question, multiple-choice quiz.

KPMG announced this week the launch of the KPMG Future Leaders Program - a new charitable initiative that looks to develop future women leaders. Also of note, KPMG announced that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will serve as ambassador to the program.

The World Gold Council, a market development organization for the gold industry, has some ideas about developing a common accounting framework for gold that could be used by central banks in countries around the world.

The costs of the finance and accounting function at many companies are expected to climb in the next few years, according to a new survey.

On Tuesday, the third day of sessions at the 2016 Practitioners Symposium and Tech+ Conference in Las Vegas, consultant and speaker Rita Keller gave a session on the importance of firm mentoring, titled, "Mentoring Matters: People Will Stay When They Know Someone Cares."

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed long-awaited rulemaking last week to protect consumers from falling into the trap of ever-spiraling debt for taking out a short-term “payday loan.”

On Monday, the second day of sessions at the 2016 Practitioners Symposium and Tech+ Conference in Las Vegas, Jennifer Wilson, partner and co-founder of ConvergenceCoaching, spoke on how to contribute to and maintain a high-functioning firm.

Congress and the Internal Revenue Service are starting to take a closer look at the museums set up by private foundations that receive special tax-exempt status from the IRS.

Forget about Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Horst Buchholz and Brad Dexter. Accountants need a “Magnificent Seven” set of attributes to survive in today’s business environment, according to new research from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

The Center for Audit Quality is providing support for more independent auditing-related research by picking two new academic research proposals for funding.