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The traditional summer ritual of back-to-school shopping is turning into more of a year-round endeavor, according to new surveys by Deloitte.

Deloitte is supporting this year's Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles (LA2015), taking place from July 25 to August 2, 2015. Deloitte was closely involved in preparing the winning bid that brought the 2015 Special Olympics to Los Angeles and has committed pro bono services to aid in the planning and execution of the event.

Marvel Entertainment Group, the company behind the superhero comic books and hit movies, landed in Tax Court this week, and lost a battle against the Internal Revenue Service.

A U.S. Senate committee voted on Thursday in support of opening up banking services to state-legal marijuana businesses, according to a release by the National Cannabis Industry Association.

To help improve financial awareness across generations, CalCPA Institute, along with the California Society of CPAs and the California Jump$tart Coalition is holding the California Financial Literacy Summit on July 30 at the San Jose Marriott. It will bring together experts and leaders from government, business, education and other fields who are concerned about financial illiteracy in the state.

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.