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The push for a so-called “Robin Hood tax” on stock trading and other securities transactions received an extra jolt this week, thanks to some celebrity power.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board recently announced the colleges and universities participating in the PCAOB Scholarship Program this upcoming 2012-23 academic year.

Mark Whitacre, the corporate whistleblower who exposed a price-fixing scandal at Archer Daniels Midland in the 1990s, told a group of fraud examiners that his wife was the person who convinced him to go to the FBI.

The foundation of accounting and consulting firm J.H. Cohn recently donated $150,000 to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation, two Cohn for Kids-supported charities, at its 21st Annual Charity Golf Invitational June 11.

Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn can provide some important clues when searching for signs of fraud, or the fraudsters themselves.

The Association for Accounting Marketing presented 38 Marketing Achievement Awards (AAM-MAAs) to 24 firms for their marketing and communications achievements during a gala ceremony June 11 at the 2012 AAM Summit in Las Vegas.

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners featured fraud experts discussing how to find evidence of fraud at its 23rd Annual ACFE Fraud Conference & Exposition in Orlando on Monday.

Who buys a cookbook and never makes any of its recipes? The same person who goes to a conference and loads up on great ideas and never implements them.

This year was the first of the newly combined American Institute of CPAs’ Practitioners Symposium and TECH+ Conference and the 2012 Association for Accounting Marketing Summit June 10-13 in Las Vegas.

A Senate committee held a hearing on the tax challenges confronting Indian tribal members who are increasingly subjected to Internal Revenue Service audits.