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KPMG and the National Academy Foundation are collaborating to bolster accounting education to underserved high school students in the foundation’s Academies of Finance nationwide.

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the art of dressing up your website so that Google looks favorably upon it. A high ranking by Google could be a source of free leads – potentially a lot of free leads. And who would argue with that?

A Web site that helps taxpayers file for tax extensions has created a map that shows tax procrastination trends across the country.

According to a new Pace University study, Starbucks, Coca-Cola and Nike’s social media popularity translates to more than just Facebook “likes” and Twitter followers—it shows a positive correlation with stock price.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board may be changing the rules on how banks account for loans made at below-market rates in order to win future business from a client.

A Parnu, Estonia, vocational school's use of computer-simulated companies as learning tools is spreading to accounting and economic students at other schools in the country, according to national public station ETV.

According to the American Institute of CPAs, Client retention is one of the top issues facing most accounting firms. Unfortunately, most accounting firms still don’t measure client satisfaction.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board heard from members of its Investor Advisory Group that they should be looking more closely at auditing firms to see what role they played in the financial crisis.

Global commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle announced a donation of 100 million yen (approximately $1.25 million) to the Japanese Red Cross relief efforts following the earthquake and Pacific Tsunami.

Intuit has identified a bug in its Ohio state software that caused nearly 9,700 taxpayers to receive refund notices for enormous sums, while also addressing complaints from some domestic partners about the way it handles recent rule changes from the IRS.