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Many CFOs have trouble separating themselves from the office during their summer vacations, according to a new survey.

PwC US announced on Friday that its Greater Michigan practice is launching its "100 Ways to Give Back" volunteer initiative to mark its 100th anniversary in Detroit. The volunteer campaign is starting with the Annual Day of Giving on June 19, when more than 450 employees will volunteer at numerous locations in Detroit. Additionally, employees will volunteer in 100 ways throughout 2015 to support youth education, economic and community development, and talent recruitment efforts in the community.

Investors and regulators are hoping to see the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board somehow reconcile their differing approaches to accounting for loan impairments and credit losses in their financial instruments project.

Gallina LLP announced a partnership with Placer Food Bank, a Feed Families affiliate, in their Roseville, California headquarters on Friday. The office extended an offer to local nonprofit organizations to collect aluminum and plastic recyclables from empty employee beverage containers. After receiving an overwhelming number of interested nonprofits, Gallina awarded the opportunity to Roseville-based, Placer Food Bank.

The inaugural Money$peak Competition, presented by the Mercadien Foundation and Rider University, with participating teams from Hopewell Valley, Lawrence, Nottingham, Steinert, and West Windsor Plainsboro North high schools, kicked on Wednesday, June 3. The Mercadien Group, Rider University, New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Group, First Choice Bank, Fulton Bank, Random Thought Studio, and Titan Technologies made this experience for Mercer County high school students possible through their support.

On Tuesday, FIU’s College of Business announced that PwC has donated $100,000 in support of FIU's School of Accounting.

Business leaders are expanding their companies to foreign countries more out of a “fear of missing out,” rather than a positive desire for growth, according to a new survey by Grant Thornton.

On Tuesday afternoon, the second day of events at Practitioners Symposium and Tech Conference in Orlando, Fla., Sarah Cirelli, interactive marketing manager at WithumSmith+Brown, spoke to an audience on the advantages on creative marketing in her presentation titled, "Video Strategy to Break Through Your Marketing Barriers."

On Tuesday morning, the second day of events at Practitioners Symposium and Tech Conference in Orlando, Fla., Richard Caturano, the national leader of culture, diversity and inclusion at McGladrey and chairmen at the AICPA, addressed an audience on the merits of diversity in business in his presentation titled, "The 'I' in Diversity & Inclusion."

On Tuesday morning, the second day of events at Practitioners Symposium and Tech Conference in Orlando, Fla., Dave Maney, Founder/CEO of Deke Digital held a presentation on producing smarter social media content entitled, "Inbound Lead Generation Using Social Media."