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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.

The Outlook email inbox is still the center of Western Civilization.

The accounting firm Brown Smith Wallace has been counseling its business clients on ways to save money on their taxes by taking advantage of some government incentives.

Baylor University students are asking faculty, fellow students and Central Texas residents to save them a dance—or over 1,000, if they accomplish their goal of setting a Guinness World Record for world’s largest Zumba class in an effort to send Baylor accounting students on a vocational mission trip to Uganda this summer.

The deficit reduction plan that President Obama plans to introduce on Wednesday is expected to include a combination of spending cuts and tax hikes.

How many firms regularly share information with staff in an attempt to educate? And I’m not just talking about professional staff—but all staff.