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To combat the growing number of diabetes cases across the country, Deloitte announced this month that it would join the American Diabetes Association of Illinois in its "Venture to Stop Diabetes Challenge" - a competition that seeks to find community-based innovators and entrepreneurs and offering new solutions to address diabetes management, care and education.

One out of three internal audit departments worldwide are now outsourcing at least some of their work to a third party, according to a new study.

In order to help graduating students stand out in a competitive job market, the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) launched the IMA Accounting Honor Society (IAHS) last year to give students an academic distinction amongst their peers upon completion of their collegiate studies. The IAHS announced that they are still accepting applications for the Society before the Class of '16 graduates later this Spring.

Industries of all kinds can see positive benefits from better collaboration, and that's particularly true in the accounting profession where more firms are starting to use cloud-based collaboration technology.

To embrace change simply isn’'t enough in today’s disruptive environment.

The New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJCPA) announced that they will award more than $450,000 in scholarship money this year to high school and college students studying accounting. The sum will be spread across more than 80 Garden State students at a ceremony this April.

The new lease accounting standard is likely to have a much greater impact on lessees than lessors.

According to a new survey from the AICPA and the Ad Council, one in three millennials (34 percent) ranked saving as their number one goal for the year – in front of living a healthy lifestyle (20 percent), paying off debts (19 percent), and losing weight (14 percent). Despite this, a majority of millennials (65%) attributed their lack of saving to impulse buying.

New hires, you're on watch: According to a new Robert Half Finance & Accounting survey, a majority (54 percent) of CFOs said that their new hires have one to less than three months to prove themselves in their roles. Another 9 percent of CFOs expect new blood to prove themselves in less than a month.

The AICPA announced last week that Dr. Yvonne Hinson has been named the Institute's Academic in Residence. The role will see Dr. Hinson provide leadership for the AICPA’s initiatives to engage with and support university accounting educators, focused on building a strong pipeline of professional and diverse students to continue to enter the CPA profession.