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Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP has awarded PhD Project participant Joye Caston a two-year, $10,000 per year scholarship to pursue her doctorate in accounting at Jackson State University, marking the first Dixon Hughes Goodman Doctoral Scholarship to ever be awarded.

Content is at the center of marketing today. From articles to videos, from blog posts to whitepapers - you can’t market in today’s environment without creating content. The problem is, coming up with original content ideas evades most of us. So what do we write about?

Alloitt Group recently completed the Deloitte Ride Across Britain challenge - a nine-day (Sept. 6th - 14th), 969 mile "end to end" ride through the UK that benefits a charity of the participants' choosing.

The majority of Australian accounting students are now foreign, The Australian Financial Review reports. 79% of Australian graduate accounting students hailed from overseas in 2013, with 55% of international students comprising undergraduate scholars in the field as well. Accounting was only behind business and management enrollment for international students in the Australian collegiate system last year.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has released a new report on how internal auditors can take advantage of metrics to get better results.

Congratulations - you're a new parent! But how will work respond? It's no secret that maternal or parental leave differs from company to company, with benefits ranging from exceptional to unremarkable. Thankfully, Working Mother Magazine has compiled a handy list of 100 companies that treat recent parents with the best programs and support. Notably, a number of tax and accounting firms have been recognized for their work/life balance.

Working in conjunction with the Flower City Habitat for Humanity, a committee of young Rochester CPAs will break ground on an eight-week building project this Thursday - constructing a new home for a local family in need.

Cleveland-based firm Meaden & Moore LLP has announced a partnership with Canadian-based LBC International, Ltd., creating the new partnership Meaden & Moore International LLP (MMI), which will combine LBC's London office with Meaden & Moore's UK subsidiary.

Representing a creative alternative to charitable donations, the Connecticut Society of CPAs (CTCPA) New and Young Professionals Group held their fifth annual charity kickball tournament at Norton Park on August 16th Featuring more than 130 players on 13 teams, the tournament was able to raise $2,600 for local student Lexi Charbonneau, a 12-year-old from Plainville diagnosed with Osteogenesis Imperfecta - a genetic bone disorder.

The IRS must be one of the most frequently sued agencies in the federal government, and now it’s facing a challenge over whether it has the right to charge tax preparers for the annual cost of a Preparer Tax Identification Number.