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The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board issued guidelines late last month on providing a financial statement discussion and analysis section in reports from public sector entities.

You know how all the good conversations tend to happen in hallways or the proverbial water cooler, never documented and never to be discussed again? Well, we’ve decided to make those conversations the center of our new and fabulous event.

Arlene R. Thayer, chief operating officer of Mid-Atlantic CPA and consulting firm KatzAbosch, was recently inducted into Network 2000, a nonprofit which promotes the advancement of women in professional and executive positions.

The American Institute of CPAs has created an online community to connect young CPA members.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board released its first set of industry-focused provisional standards on Wednesday, starting with the health care sector.

While human resource executives say that skills-based volunteering enhances job prospects for college graduates and returning military veterans, according to a new survey from Deloitte, less than half of those surveyed students and military personnel view volunteering at a nonprofit as a way to develop skills and experience for their careers.

EY recently sent 30 employees on its Earthwatch Ambassodors program, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year, just as the trend of “extreme volunteerism” is gaining traction at other big corporations.

Five John Jay College students were honored by the New York Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners as winners of an essay contest on the topic of “Protecting Domestic and International Markets.”

The Washington Society of CPAs announced that the Washington CPA Foundation awarded $52,000 in scholarships to 17 accounting students at 10 schools in the state.

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision last month striking down the Defense of Marriage Act may have solved the estate tax problems of the lead plaintiff, Edith Windsor, but it still is leaving a lot of uncertainty among same-sex couples, particularly those in states that do not recognize same-sex marriage.