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Tax preparation firm Jackson Hewitt is doing it for the children this tax season, donating money to partner charity Give Kids the World through customer coupons.

Daniel Goelzer, one of the original members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and a former acting chairman, told Accounting Today he is skeptical that the PCAOB will end up requiring mandatory audit firm rotation for public companies.

The Deloitte Foundation awarded $25,000 worth of grants to the ten top PhD candidates from its annual Doctoral Fellowships in Accounting program.

We all know goals are important. In fact, it’s the foundation of every business strategy. If you have ever been through any business course, they beat you over the head with it.Goals are not enough.

The American Institute of CPAs is now accepting online applications for its 2013-14 academic scholarships.

Frank Ross, director of Howard University’s Center for Accounting Education, has been a longtime proponent of increasing diversity in the accounting profession, as the industry once again tries to make headway on the problem.

During his closing keynote of the Winning is Everything conference Jan. 16-18 in Las Vegas, Sir Ken Robinson, author, speaker and advisor on creativity and innovation, challenged attendees to reawaken something he said becomes dormant with adulthood.

Rea & Associates recently addressed a problem local to the Ohio CPA and consulting firm by donating 9,178 pounds of food to neighborhood organizations through its annual food drive.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service released their long-awaited set of final regulations for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act last week. They answer many of the lingering questions that have caused banks to put off implementation, but not all of them.

Recently, my high school accounting teacher found me on LinkedIn, and then shortly after stopped by my office for a visit.