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Just this week I had the opportunity to hang out with the CEO and CMO of the invoicing and time tracking application FreshBooks.

Ernst & Young CPA Nick DeSanto went from audit to audition when he uploaded a video trying out for a guest role on the TV musical Glee.

Greg Anton, the freshly minted chairman of the American Institute of CPAs, will have a full plate of issues to deal with as he starts his tenure, ranging from the fight for a private accounting standards board to the gala celebration marking the Institute’s 125th anniversary next year.

School kids might have 99 problems, but Warren Buffett and Jay-Z are hoping financial literacy isn’t one after they team up in a rebooted animated series, “Secret Millionaires Club,” that teaches kids about practical money habits.

On one end of a continuum, social media can confer great career advantages as a networking and learning tool.

Irvine, Calif.-based Wright Ford Young & Co. was recently named one of the “Best Places to Work in Orange County” for 2011 by the Orange County Business Journal.

The American Institute of CPAs convinced the Internal Revenue Service to require registered tax return preparers under the new IRS’s regulatory program to add a special disclaimer to any of their advertising to avoid the appearance of an IRS endorsement.

The American Institute of CPA, the National Association of the State Boards of Accountancy and Prometric announced that the international administration of the uniform CPA exam will be offered in Brazil starting February 2012.

The American Institute of CPAs presented its Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to veteran tax CPE seminar speaker and author Sidney Kess.

If you are like most professionals, you probably have a LinkedIn profile but aren’t sure what it can do for you.