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The Institute of Management Accountants is starting the IMA Leadership Academy to help accounting and finance professionals enhance their leadership skills.

Ernst & Young was named recipient of Project Management Institute’s Distinguished Project Award.

NICE Actimize is encouraging banks to get out ahead of the impending requirements of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act for reporting on the holdings of U.S. citizens in foreign financial institutions.

Brian Carlton, regional managing partner of Charlotte, N.C.-based CPA firm Dixon Hughes Goodman, served as chair for the recent 2012 March for Babies walk in Washington, D.C.

International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has been taking heat in recent days for bitterly criticizing the Greeks for not paying their taxes, when she does not pay taxes on her own $467,940 salary and $83,760 yearly allowance.

The New York State Society of CPAs’ Foundation for Accounting Education announced it will hold its annual Young CPA Conference July 15-17 in Verona, N.Y.

Deloitte’s Australian member firm could be facing scrutiny after one of its auditing clients, Hastie Group, admitted to $20 million (Australian) in accounting irregularities.

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Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, has conquered another new frontier: giving an interview to an Australian accounting organization.

The American Society of Women Accountants and American Woman’s Society of CPAs announced the 2012 Accounting MOVE Project list of Best Public Accounting Firms For Women.