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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.

The AICPA released a list of five financial tips for newly-employed young people on their Insights blog on Tuesday.

Some of New York’s most ambitious young CPAs will gather in Midtown Manhattan this Friday for NextGen 2015, an annual interactive career development conference hosted by the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

As the most recent group of college grads earns their diplomas, they may not necessarily have everything they need to enter the working world. That's at least according to a new survey by Accountemps - a division of global staffing firm Robert Half - that found that more than half (56 percent) of accounting and finance professionals said they felt only somewhat prepared for their first job after graduation.

The Anti-Fraud Collaboration, a joint effort of the Center for Audit Quality, Financial Executives International, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the National Association of Corporate Directors, has released the third in a series of case studies examining how to identify and stop accounting fraud in an organization.

Concur, the leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions and services, announced on Monday partnerships with both Lyft and HotelTonight. The partnerships look to continue the company’s commitment to meet modern business travelers’ needs for on-demand services, while also providing finance and travel managers greater visibility and manageability for business expenses.