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The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) announced the recipients of its Accounting Education Research Grants Program for 2015 on Tuesday. Faculty and postdoctoral researchers from two U.S. institutions will be awarded research grants totaling $18,100.

The other day, as I was browsing LinkedIn, I saw a job advertisement for a tax manager. Now I can honestly say I know nothing about the firm or even the location, but the first three words in the ad made me stop dead in my tracks (and no, I’m not looking for a new job.) “Beautiful Downtown Office.”

The Georgia Society of CPAs is uniting accountants in the Peach State in a friendly competition to support Georgia’s eight regional food banks.

It isn’t often that accounting firms have to compete against pizza parlors, but all bets are off when it comes to softball.

Very few firms today have a well-defined “path to partner.” This creates both challenges and opportunities for today’s younger professionals with aspirations of partnership. The challenge is in that it can be hard to understand just exactly what you need to do to make partner. Conversely, the opportunity is that you can define your own path and propose this to leadership as a starting point.

The AICPA has named Dan Griffiths, director of strategic planning at Tanner LLC, the winner of the Outstanding Young CPA Award in Honor of Maximo Mukelabai. Griffiths was recognized for his leadership role with the Utah Association of CPAs (UACPA) and service to his local community.

The Senate Finance Committee has released its long-awaited report on the Internal Revenue Service’s treatment of political groups applying for tax-exempt status, and it includes a tantalizing reference to Bristol Palin, the daughter of former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Former Internal Revenue Service commissioner Mark Everson has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission objecting to being left out entirely of Fox News’s Republican presidential debate.

A new research project by the Wisconsin School of Business - aimed at providing auditors, regulators, and policy-makers with a model for understanding and interpreting audit studies - is one of three projects to receive funding from the Center for Audit Quality, according to a press release from the school.

Nonprofit organizations make accounting errors at a relatively high rate, in part because they try to avoid devoting a high percentage of their funding to administrative costs, according to a new study.