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The Colangelo College of Business at Grand Canyon University is holding its first annual "Money Week" March 14-16 in order to educate students on financial and savings basics, per GCU Today. Professors from Colangelo and other financial experts look to educate students with concise, 20-minute discussions on basic topics ranging from tackling credit card debt to structuring a budget.

Jody Padar, principal of New Vision CPA Group and author of The Radical CPA: New Rules for the Future-Ready Firm, will be partnering with Donal de Paor and Veltig - the salesforce solution consulting and implementation partner - to support the launch of Sage Live in Chicago, the two announced on Wednesday.

The AICPA requested on Monday that the IRS extend the deadline for submitting comments on Notice 2016-23, which requests responses to a series of specific questions related to the new centralized partnership audit regime established by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, P.L. 114-74.

WalletHub has released its annual report on the states with the highest and lowest tax rates in the country.

A group from BerryDunn recently participated in the fourth annual WinterKids Downhill 24, a 24-hour team ski race at Sugarloaf ski resort in Carrabassett Valley, Maine. Proceeds from the event were donated to WinterKids, a Maine-based nonprofit that helps kids develop healthy habits through outdoor winter activities.

U.S. business leaders are keeping a close eye during primary season on the candidates’ tax reform plans, according to a new survey of private companies by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Sales tax technology vendors have been expanding their efforts to help small and midsize businesses cope with the dizzying array of tax rates and rules across states, localities and countries.

At 82 years of age, Gary Gerson of Miami, FL has a resume that reads like a CPA wishlist: Becoming the youngest CPA in the country (21 years old in 1955), heading the Navy Area Audit Office during his military fulfillment during the Korean War, head of his own firm, and the only non-athlete to be inducted into the University of Florida's Athletic Hall of Fame, to name just a few accomplishments.

As Sunday marks Daylight Saving Time, professionals will lose another hour of sleep during tax season. However, according to a new survey from Accountemps, a Robert Half company, this lost hour will have no effect on an already tired workforce. Accountemps found that nearly three-quarters of U.S. workers work while they're tired, with one-third reporting they do so "very often."

Many forward-thinking companies are giving their employees access to financial wellness services to help them make sense of their finances.