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Recognizing 92 graduate and undergraduate students nationwide, the AICPA has granted $277,500 as part of the AICPA Scholarship for Minority Accounting Students for the 2014-15 academic year.

As the crisp autumn air signals the start of a new school year, thousands of accounting students nationwide will begin or continue their education at their respected schools. In light of this, LinkedIn has ranked their top 25 accounting schools, based on their own research of successful accounting professionals on the social networking site.

While there are many well-equipped organizations for accountants in the United States and Europe, much of the developing world is still missing robust groups that can foster development of ethical practices for accountants and look out for their interests.

ALPFA, the largest Latino association in the country, has awarded Louis Miramontes and Suzette Longfellow of KPMG with the ALPFA Lifetime Achievement and Executive of the Year Awards, respectively, for their promotion of diversity and inclusion in the accounting profession.

AICPA's Future of Learning Task Force - a working group of firm leaders, industry CPAs, regulators, and educators - has announced four recommendations to promote lifelong learning in the CPA profession.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Employee Benefit Plans Expert Panel has developed some new practice aids to provide nonauthoritative guidance about the effects of recent accounting standards relating to the liquidation basis of accounting on employee benefit plans.

More than 400 PwC US partners and staff in the Los Angeles area today will teach 4,000 local elementary students the importance of financial literacy, as part of the Earn Your Future campaign in conjunction with Playworks.

Joining more than a dozen American universities and colleges, Germany's EBS Business School has been recognized by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) in their Higher Education Endorsement Program - the first European school to do so.

A new podcast series aims to help small accounting firms grow.