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The University of Toledo College of Business and Innovation revealed the Alan Barry Accounting Lab last week, in recognition of generous donations made by Class of '66 graduate Alan H. Barry to his alma mater.

As the world starts to rely more and more on digital data, a fertile job market has emerged for those who will analyze and report on those statistics. In response to this, St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, has formed a new bachelor of business administration degree program in accounting and data analytics.

The AICPA said in its Sept. 24 letter that it “strongly supports” the IRS’s effort to develop standards allowing for electronic signature. However, stricter methods of achieving these means were urged

Elizabeth Moehlenbrock (MBA Class of '15) and Liyuan Su (MSF Class of '15) of the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB) recently took home top honors at the Initiative on Rethinking Financial Disclosure - a partnership of the GWSB's Institute for Corporate Responsibility (ICR) and the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ).

The second public meeting of the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans (“the Council”) will be held on Thursday, October 2, 2014, from 9:00am - 11:30am EDT, on site at the US Department of the Treasury in Washington, D.C.

Expanding businesses into new markets brings with it a slew of new factors to consider: globalization, digitization, and company culture, to name a few. Recognizing these obstacles, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) have released Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) reports entitled Rethinking the Value Chain, a series designed to help businesses reevaluate opportunities in emerging markets and strengthen their value chains.

Syracuse University's Martin J. Whitman School of Management, in conjunction with 2U, Inc, has announced the Accounting@Syracuse program - an online Master of Science in Professional Accounting course, that acts as an offshoot of the existing MBA@Syracuse program.

This experience truly exemplifies how social media impacts our work today. How we can all be global firms – no matter what size we actually are!

The KPMG Higher Education Outlook Survey, which polls 120 senior officers in college and universities, found that 85% of officials are either "very" or "somewhat" concerned about maintaining their current enrollment levels - up 14% from last year.

If you think you've seen every collegiate ice-breaker before, think again: Temple University's Ambler Campus Accounting Professional Society will host the first ever "CPA Dash" next Sunday, September 28th, at 11 a.m. As the name suggests, four-person teams are invited to participate in a relay race of sorts, showcasing their accounting skills on the fly.