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The Association for Accounting Marketing handed out 33 Marketing Achievement Awards (AAM-MAAs) to 23 different firms in a lively dance party reception Monday night at the 2013 AAM Summit in partnership with the AICPA Practitioners Symposium and TECH+ Conference in Las Vegas.

I’ve got to say…I think the “badass CPA” is a sign of the times.

Late last month, the Justice Department shut down Liberty Reserve, a company that facilitated international money laundering by using digital currency to transmit funds.

BlumShapiro volunteers recently served as teachers in a West Hartford, Conn., elementary school classroom as part of the JA in a Day program, which uses Junior Achievement curriculum to educate students on work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy.

A trade organization for credit unions has written to the Financial Accounting Standards Board asking for changes in its proposed standards for credit losses in its financial instruments project, which differ from those of the International Accounting Standards Board.

For the second straight year, employees of CPA, business advisory and management consulting firm SS&G took part in the firm’s community service program Serve, Share & Give, volunteering at different charitable organizations in May and June.

UHY LLP is getting involved in supporting technology startup companies and the CPA firm is finding some new clients that it can guide through the funding and M&A process.

New York accounting and consulting firm Rosen Seymour Shapss Martin & Company recently sponsored a Build-A-Bear Workshop event for seriously ill children of the Starlight Children’s Foundation NY*NJ*CT.

The IRS released the final regulations for Phase III of cost basis reporting of debt instruments, options and single stock futures on April 18, and the tax profession is sorting out what the new rules mean and how they will affect firms and their clients.

The Houston CPA Society honored Lupe Garcia, assurance and advisory services manager in the Houston office of Texas accounting and consulting firm Whitley Penn, with its Young CPA of the Year Award.