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A team of accounting students from the University of California, Berkeley captured first prize last week at the Deloitte Foundation-sponsored 16th annual National Student Case Study Seminar in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Grant Thornton LLP is planning a major marketing campaign later in the year to reposition the Chicago-based firm around the world.

Seth Godin’s book The Dip is an insightful, quick read that tackles an almost un-PC question in the business world: Should you give up?

The Houston CPA Society presented a check for $152,435 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana from the proceeds for the society’s 20th Anniversary Golf Classic last fall.

The Texas Society of CPAs will hold its third annual Financial Literacy Social Media Outreach Day Friday in an effort to direct the public to its consumer website, www.ValueYourMoney.org and the free information and resources it offers.

I’m writing this at 9 a.m. on April 14th and thinking, “It’s almost over.”

The foundation of Beaumont, Texas-based Lamar University announced a new endowed scholarship for accounting majors.

Accounting firm Sharpe, Kawam, Carmosino & Company was named one of the 2011 Best Places to Work in New Jersey by NJBiz magazine.

Representatives of New Jersey and Philadelphia accounting firm Alloy, Silverstein, Shapiro, Adams, Mulford, Cicalese, Wilson & Co. joined fellow members of the South Jersey Young Professionals Association to present a $90,000 check to the Salvation Army for its new Ray and Joan Kroc Center.

An Arizona State University junior won the PricewaterhouseCoopers Best Elevator Pitch Contest and a $5,000 prize.