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Grant Thornton’s St. Louis office launched a new career development program for women last week with a food bank volunteer event.

The two founding members of the new CPA Caucus in Congress, Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., and Mike Conaway, R-Texas, gave an entertaining talk during a luncheon Monday at the AICPA’s Spring Meeting of Council.

Any accountant that has ever dealt with the IRS knows it’s typically not a smooth process.

Recent graduates feel mixed about the financial value of college, according to Fidelity Investments’ recent Cost-Conscious College Graduates Survey, which studied how class of 2009, 2010 and 2011 graduates are faring in terms of college debt levels and securing jobs.

Careless workers need not apply, according to a recent Accountemps survey in which 41 percent of interviewed chief financial officers said lacking attention to detail and presenting sloppy work are the coworker behaviors that annoy them most.

Western New York accounting firm Freed Maxick & Battaglia will be one of a few hundred companies involved in the beta rollout of Twitter’s Promoted Product suite of advertising products through the firm’s @FreedMaxickCPAs account.

The New York State Society of CPAs attracted a large crowd Thursday evening at its 114th Annual Election Meeting & Dinner.

San Francisco is the best city to snag a finance job, according to a recent list from finance staffing provider Accounting Principals.

Judy Murphy, partner-in-charge of regional accounting and professional consulting firm RubinBrown, was awarded the Fr. Joseph L. Davis, S.J., Alumni Merit Award by Saint Louis University’s John Cook School of Business Alumni Association.

Major U.S. companies like Oracle and Amgen are stashing nearly $90 billion of their cash holdings offshore because of accounting and tax rules.