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CPA Australia chief executive Alex Malley, who interviewed Neil Armstrong about his experience as the first man to set foot on the moon, is throwing his support behind an effort to help the Smithsonian Institution pay for preservation of the pioneering astronaut’s spacesuit.

The American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants (AWSCPA) announced on Thursday that CohnReznick, one of the leading accounting, tax, and advisory firms in the U.S., has been named the recipient of its Innovation in Women’s Programming Award for 2015.

As part of the CPA profession’s 6-Point Plan to Improve Audits, the AICPA will present a free webcast, “Drive Your Competitive Edge with Audit Quality,” on Thursday, July 30 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET.

Institutional investors are expressing a high level of dissatisfaction with the types of sustainability-related information they are getting from companies, according to a new survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell (CBM), a full-service CPA and business advisory firm with offices in Bethesda, Maryland and Washington, DC, is partnering with the Housing Opportunity Community Partners (HOCP) again this year for their annual school supplies drive. This year, HOCP’s goal is to collect enough school supplies to support 2,000 low-income students throughout Montgomery County, Maryland.

Online business education and career guide Top Management Degrees recently published a ranking of the top 50 business schools to earn an MBA.

The AICPA announced on Tuesday that Jeremy Weaver, a financial planner and investment manager with PlanFIRST in South Carolina, has been awarded the 2015 P. Thomas Austin Personal Financial Planning Division Scholarship. Weaver was presented with the scholarship earlier today at the AICPA Estate Planning Conference in Salt Lake City.

New York-based accounting firm Citrin Cooperman has introduced a new tagline, “Focus on What Counts,” as part of a rebranding initiative that also includes a new video with comments from the firm’s management.

Board members at nonprofit organizations are too far removed from some of their key governance responsibilities, according to a new survey by the accounting firm Marks Paneth.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) today announced the recipients of $10,000 merit scholarships intended to encourage students to pursue a career in audit. This is the PCAOB's fifth year granting scholarships through the PCAOB Scholarship Program.