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The Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants announced the winners of its 2011 Award of Achievement for academic excellence in accounting studies.

David Letterman has made an annual tradition of inviting a group of 10 accountants onto his show every tax season around April 15 to present his Top 10 list.

I am in the process of a rather large painting project outdoors. It’s been more than a few years since I have painted on this scale and it reminded me that the tools you use and preparatory steps do matter.

The super-rich are paying a far lower rate of taxes these days than they did in the early 90s.

The Texas Society of CPAs San Antonio chapter was honored with the Texas Credit Union League Focus Award for its financial literacy work.

The winners of this year’s Ernst & Young Your World, Your Vision campus competition hail from Baruch College, University of Georgia and University of Illinois. The three winning teams will receive $10,000 from the firm to implement the local community program they designed.

A group of 1,000 economists from 53 countries has signed a letter to the Group of 20 finance ministers calling on them to introduce a tax on financial transactions as a way to combat global poverty and climate change.

Four female accountants at WithumSmith+Brown got a tax season surprise when Rachael Ray Show cameras ambushed their New Brunswick, N.J., office for a special makeover segment that aired last week.

The California University of Pennsylvania College of Liberal Arts bestowed their 2011 Outstanding Alumnus Award on Thomas L. Bakaitus, Jr., chief operation officer at Pennsylvania regional CPA firm Herbein + Company.

The passing rate for the CPA exam in the first quarter of this year sunk to its lowest level in three years, according to the latest figures.