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Bill Andreozzi, a partner at CohnReznick, was recently selected by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal as a 2015 Trusted Advisor Award recipient in the practice of accounting. Bill leads tax services for CohnReznick’s Woodland Hills and Los Angeles offices.

Between June 15th and 30th, employees from UHY LLP’s Michigan practice, in conjunction with UHY Cares, purchased and sported nearly 200 pairs of red and white socks to be a part of the “Ronald Sock Challenge”. The challenge is both an awareness campaign and fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southeast Michigan.

With an estimated 75 percent of CPAs expected to retire over the next 15 years, according to the AICPA, CPA firms are under pressure to recruit and retain a sufficient number of young accountants to keep the business going.

The AICPA named Dr. Mark Dirsmith as the winner of the 2015 AICPA Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award on Friday. He was honored at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association (AAA), in Chicago.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation announced on Tuesday that EY has been named a finalist in the 2015 Corporate Citizenship Awards under the "Best Commitment to Education Program" category, alongside Accenture and the GE Foundation.

The causes behind Greece’s ever-worsening debt crisis have been attributed to different factors, including widespread tax evasion, harsh austerity measures, an underground economy, and predatory investment banks and hedge funds, but according to one expert, the main culprit is bad accounting.

The AICPA announced on Thursday the opening of its 2015 AICPA Accounting Competition. The sixth annual competition, which will award a total of $40,000 to the winning teams, challenges undergraduate students to work together as management accountants to help a business hone their strategic plan, analyzing complex financial issues and recommending strategies for growth and continued success.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standards update on Wednesday deferring by one year the effective date of the converged revenue recognition standard that it released last year with the International Accounting Standards Board.

Comedian and CPA Greg Kyte is taking Comedy CPE to Seattle later this month. The two-hour fraud class, titled “Holy Mother of Fraud,” will be held downtown at Comedy Underground, Seattle’s oldest comedy club.

Accounting, tax and advisory firm CohnReznick recently hosted about 100 women executives to get them more accustomed to a common way to do business among generations of male executives.