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On Thursday, Thomson Reuters released a special report, Retrospective on Key Tax Developments in 2014, providing a thorough briefing of key developments in 2014, including the tax extender provisions as well as many of the rates, dollar caps, and other key figures that changed over the course of the year.

The AICPA has announced that five students transitioning from community colleges to four-year universities have been awarded the inaugural AICPA Foundation Two Year Transfer Scholarship. Funded by the AICPA Foundation, the awarded students have earned an associate’s degree in business, accounting, finance or economics with a declared intent to major in accounting at a four-year college or university and will receive $1,000 towards their tuition for the 2014-2015 school year.

Accounting Degree Review, an online resource for accounting education and related topics, recently published their 2014-2015 affordability rankings for residential undergraduate accounting programs. The rankings include the thirty most affordable accounting schools based on annual tuition and fees for out-of-state incoming freshmen enrolling in the 2014-2015 academic year.

From December 8 - 10, the AICPA will hold their Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments, held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. Key speakers will include Daniel Gallagher, Commisioner of the SEC in Washington, D.C. and James Doty, chairman of the PCAOB in D.C., who will have a conversation session on Monday.

Tomorrow happens to be Giving Tuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back, and a pair of CPAs have some advice for those who are planning their end-of-year charitable giving.

Have you realized that the world around you has changed? Do you feel like the new ways customers want to do business with you are radically different than in the past? Then you, my friend, are a radical CPA!

Holiday shoppers who are planning spending sprees at their local stores on Black Friday and Thanksgiving weekend will be contending not only with door-buster bargains, but also with sales taxes, which in some states and localities can be much higher or lower than others.

Myers, Brettholtz & Company employees provided PACE Center for Girls staff, volunteers and students a home-cooked Thanksgiving lunch on Monday at their new school location off of Evans Avenue in Fort Myers.

In a new analysis released today, spend management solutions and services provider Concur, supported by data from reservation service Table8, has found that business dining has become a driving force in growing restaurant sales - a trend likely to only increase in the coming months.

The AICPA announced today a large step forward in collaborating with the Instituto Nacional de Contadores Públicos (INCP), Colombia’s largest member organization representing public accountants, as the South American nation prepares itself for a single set of high quality international accounting standards.