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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.

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.