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Denver-based accounting and business consulting firm Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner & Hottman was recognized as one of the “25 Best Medium-Sized Companies to Work for in America” by the Great Place to Work Institute and Entrepreneur magazine.

Japanese camera and medical device maker Olympus is facing questions over its efforts to cover up investment losses for about 20 years.

Roseland, N.J.-based professional services firm Rothstein Kass will partner with publisher and events host Garden State Woman to sponsor the 2011-12 Garden State Woman Education Foundation Scholarship Fund to support inner-city New Jersey girls that have been accepted to a four-year college in the state.

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board chairman James Doty recently delivered an illuminating history of the accounting profession in New York during a speech.

I recently read an excellent survey report commissioned by CFO magazine, The Senior Finance Team and Corporate Purchase Decisions.

Financial information provider Sageworks recently released a list of the most profitable industries over the past year, and accounting and tax preparation came out near the top.

Employees of St. Louis Park, Minnesota-based CPA firm Froehling Anderson did some heavy lifting at the nearby Voyageur Environmental Center Oct. 28, distributing wood chips around the team building obstacle courses and moving rocks to protect cabins from precipitation runoff.

The board of directors of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy voted at its annual meeting to support the Financial Accounting Foundation’s recent proposal to establish a Private Company Standards Improvement Council.

Washington D.C.-area CPA and advisory firm Bond Beebe raised more than $2,700 in its second year of participation with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night Walk in Rockville, Md., Oct. 22.

Ernst & Young has released a new survey that indicates persistent security threats at organizations despite the move to cloud computing at many companies.