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Barbara Rosenbaum, senior tax shareholder at Santa Monica, Calif.-based business and advisory firm Gumbiner Savett, will co-chair the California Society of CPAs’ 2011 Women’s Leadership Forum June 10 at the Marina del Rey Marriott.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., was one of the Republican congressional leaders who met with President Obama on Wednesday to talk about the debt ceiling impasse.

Boston accounting firm Feeley & Driscoll staff volunteered with the Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity to mark its 12th year of partnership with the organization.

New research indicates that external auditors are likely to rely on the work of internal auditors only under certain circumstances.

The Grant Thornton Foundation donated $101,954 to the Red Cross relief efforts for victims of the Japan earthquake and Pacific tsunami.

Tene Thomas, tax partner of professional services firm McConnell Jones Lanier & Murphy, was selected as a Who’s Who in Black Houston.

Bob Farrell took the job of CEO of Edgar Online only about two months ago, but he is already planning to grow the company dramatically.

The Virginia Society of CPAs announced the winners of the Outstanding Member of the Year and Top 5 Under 35 awards at its annual business meeting last week in Richmond, Va.

Three Accounting Education Research Grants totaling $20,160 were awarded to faculty and postdoctoral researchers by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy.

You've probably noticed that most new software is now developed for the web instead of the desktop. This actually isn't a trend; instead, I expect web-developed software to become the norm, at perhaps even an accelerated pace, in the years ahead.