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The American Indian Graduate Center and REDW, New Mexico’s largest locally-owned certified public accounting and business consulting firm, have partnered to create a scholarship program for American Indian students who want to study accounting, according to Indian Country Today Media Network.

In an age of stepped-up regulation and enforcement, accountants and their clients need to know how to cope with a variety of different agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

On Friday, Barry Melancon, president and CEO of the AICPA, applauded Congress for changing the due dates of certain tax returns in order to make the information flow between corporations, partnerships and individuals more logical, and which will reduce the need for extending and amending corporate and individual tax returns.

This morning while at Sage Summit (during a breakfast of beignets) I had the opportunity to meet IRL (in real life) the global CEO of Sage, Stephen Kelly. And guess what? He knew my name. After all, we’re Twitter friends.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Collection division is piloting an initiative to make early contact with employers who may be falling behind in their payroll taxes.

On Friday afternoon at the New York State's Society of CPAs (NYSSCPA) NextGen15 Conference - the annual interactive career development conference held in Midtown Manhattan - Thomas Farley, a manners and etiquette expert offering training to businesses across the U.S, spoke on the value of manners in his presentation, "Timeless Principles of Business Etiquette."

On Friday morning, at the start of the New York State's Society of CPAs (NYSSCPA) NextGen15 Conference - the annual interactive career development conference held in Midtown Manhattan - Kevin Matz of Kevin Matz and Associates gave a presentation highlighting the merits of "real-world communication," titled "Keeping People 'In-the-Know': Communicating to Cultivate Relationships and Inform."

CohnReznick, one of the leading accounting, tax, and advisory firms in the United States, raised a total of $100,000 at its 14th annual employee Bowl-A-Thon benefiting Make-A-Wish® New Jersey. This brings the total raised for Make-A-Wish by the Firm over the last 14 years through employee fundraising, donations, and raffles to more than $1.54 million.

Seventeen states will soon offer sales tax holidays where state sales tax charges are temporarily dropped on back-to-school items and other qualifying products.

The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board has released for comment a consultation paper on Recognition and Measurement of Social Benefits.