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FormSwift, a software platform used to create commonly-used documents and forms including the W-2 and W9 Form, has announced a $1,000 scholarship for graduating high school seniors or freshmen, sophomores, or juniors in college.

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which offers scholarships in the country to promising students with financial needs, is convening a two-day summit of national school leaders and experts in order to strategize about how schools can bridge the “achievement” or “excellence gap”—i.e., the troubling disparity in academic performance between lower income and higher income students.

The Mercadien Group announced on Wednesday that it will be the inaugural sponsor for Drexel University’s Fraud & Internal Controls Case Competition (FIC3), a day-long event hosted by the Accounting Department of the LeBow College of Business, on February 13, 2015.

As Congress begins to digest President Obama’s proposals for changes in how to tax the foreign earnings of U.S. multinational companies, a brief refresher on business structure might be useful.

The AICPA announced on Tuesday that the AICPA Legacy Scholarship application is now available on ThisWayToCPA.com for the 2015-2016 academic year. The new application process allows students to fill out a single application for all four AICPA Legacy Scholarship awards.

The Institute of Internal Auditors is sending out a survey in 23 languages to internal auditors around the world in an effort to gauge the opinions of audit professionals across the globe.

A top compliant of clients is that their CPAs aren’t proactive. However, it’s just these types of quick and easy marketing tasks that, in the client mind, are often the definition of proactivity! So, remember, quick and easy can be effective – whether it is your personal marketing efforts – or your next meal.

Each year, nearly 5,000 students from 95 colleges and universities across the country learn more about high-level tax and accounting policy issues and compete for cash prizes in PwC’s Challenge competition. This year, a tean of four undergraduate students from University of Washington were announced as the 2014 Challenge Accounting Competition National Finals winner.

A new study finds that U.S.-based multinational corporations move an average of $12 billion in taxable income back into the country each year without paying taxes, thanks to complex mergers and acquisitions.

Earlier this month, the Illinois CPA Society hosted this year's Mary T. Washington Wylie (MTWW) Internship Preparation Program, providing 25 minority college students with access to training and resources essential in the transition from student to professional.