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Dean Dorton Allen Ford, a full-service accounting and consulting firm headquartered in Lexington, Ky., announced this week that Paula Hanson, director of tax services at the firm, has been honored with the Martha Layne Collins Leadership Award for 2016. The award looks to recognize Kentucky women of achievement who inspire other women of the state through their personal and professional lives.

A senior Treasury Department official in charge of international tax policy is seeing a greater role being played by the Group of 20 finance ministers in setting the agenda for tax laws around the world.

For over 50 years, The Trueblood Seminars have sought to cover new developments in auditing and accounting to participating educators and thought leaders across the country. The most recent Seminars, held Feb. 17-20 and March 16-19, were hosted by the Deloitte Foundation and the American Accounting Association at Deloitte University in Westlake, Texas.

Despite positive job numbers in recent years in the U.S., the employment picture globally appears much gloomier, according to a new survey from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants.

Becker Professional Education, the global professional education, subsidiary of DeVry Education Group, announced on Tuesday the recipients of more than $250,000 in scholarship funds from its annual Newton D. Becker Scholarship Program. As a result of the program, more than 125 CPAs will receive full or partial scholarships for Becker’s CPA Exam Review.

William "Bill" Sharkey recently received the College Mentors for Kids' 2016 College Mentor of the Year in the Accounting, Legal & Finance category, the Indiana CPA Society announced this week. Sharkey has been involved with student initiatives at PwC and the Indiana CPA Society's diversity initiatives.

Approximately two-thirds of companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average reported non-GAAP earnings per share, according to a study last year, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is beginning to wonder if the trend has gone too far.

As Monday marks Tax Day across the country, taxpayers have a few options on what to do with their newly collected refunds or bonuses. This year, Capital One conducted their own "Bonus & Tax Survey" to find out what exactly people plan to do with their extra cash.

Sage announced this week that they will be sponsoring the upcoming Invictus Games in Orlando this May, in addition to entering into a multiyear partnership with the Invictus Games Foundation.

Career information site Vault recently released their annual Vault Accounting 50, a ranking of the current best accounting firms to work for. Vault compiled their ranking by weighing a firm's prestige, culture, work/life balance, compensation, overall job satisfaction, business outlook, and formal training.