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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.

Plante & Moran’s Grand Rapids, Mich., office was honored with a Huntington Pillar Award from the Women’s Resource Center yesterday for their progressive workplace policies and practices.

Starting this fall, Carlow University in Pittsburgh will offer a new master of science degree in fraud and forensics that will focus on the detection, investigation and prevention of white-collar crime.

CCH has released a video explaining the tax treatment of any gambling winnings from the March Madness college hoops brackets and other forms of betting.

H&R Block is asking the public to choose which 250 schools the company will award personal finance curriculum grants through its Dollars & Sense program.

Deloitte is hosting its fourth annual “Maximum Impact: Deloitte’s Alternative Spring Break” recruitment and volunteerism program this week that connects high-potential undergraduate candidates and underserved youth.

No charges have yet been filed by either the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Justice Department against former Lehman Brothers executives, or the bank’s auditors at Ernst & Young, over Lehman’s use of so-called Repo 105 repurchase transactions, and the prospects appear to be dimming that they ever will be.

The Star Wars saga has once again been reimagined—this time by unlikely filmmakers the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs.