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With tax season set to start on January 19, there are a number of important tax changes that taxpayers and preparers should be aware of to help make the filing process as smooth as possible.

The Accounting Path, an online guide to getting students "excited about [a] career in the accounting field," recently published a ranking of their top 20 small accounting schools.

The three lucky winners of the record-breaking $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot will need some help with their taxes this year, next year, and probably the years to come.

The Deloitte Foundation announced on Wednesday that a team from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia won the sixth annual National Case Competition held at Deloitte University's campus near Dallas, Texas. The school's winning team of Maeve McGilloway, James Morris, Chris Nelson, and Claire Williams earned the top scholarship award of $20,000.

Deloitte has recently released their fifth annual Millennial Survey, detailing the incoming workforce's trends and traits. The research findings are based on a study conducted by Deloitte Global of nearly 7,700 Millennials representing 29 countries around the globe. All respondents were born after 1982, have obtained a college or university degree, are employed full-time, and work in large (100+ employees), private-sector organizations.

CPA Ontario recently named the winners of its Canadian Association of Business Students' (CABS) Jeux de Commerce Central (JDCC) competition. Held in Toronto from January 8 through 10, JDCC is central Canada's largest business school competition, bringing together approximately 1,000 students, judges and faculty from 14 business schools across Ontario, Québec and the Maritimes.

WithumSmith+Brown has released another fun dance and music video, an annual tradition at the firm, highlighting a new logo that emphasizes the Withum brand.

As a generational shift in the workforce continues to be a factor, job-makers can only use more research. A new white paper by Bruce Tulgan and RainmakerThinking, The Great Generational Shift: The Emerging Post-Boomer Workforce presents the latest findings from their ongoing Generational Shift study.

Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., has proposed to require nonprofit colleges and universities to dedicate 25 percent of their annual endowment income to financial aid. If they don’t, they could lose their tax-exempt status.

The NYSSCPA's Foundation for Accounting Education (FAE) has announced that three special guests will be featured at three upcoming conferences this month: the 38th Annual Nonprofit Conference, the Partnership Taxation Conference, and the Taxation of Financial Instruments and Transactions Conference.