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PricewaterhouseCoopers college interns will be teaching “Banking on Our Future” finance curriculum to more than 4,000 students in 15 major American cities as part of Operation HOPE’s Five Million Kids initiative.

I was a fly on the wall during a recent training session facilitated at my firm. Based on the participant demographics, it was a meeting that I thought I would never witness.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is saying that material weaknesses in its financial statement controls can be traced to the lack of money it has for technology upgrades.

Accounting firms Cowan, Gunteski & Co. and Citrin Cooperman are among the best places to work in New Jersey, according to NJBiz magazine.

Accounting firm Carr, Riggs & Ingram is getting into the star-marking business with its new blog, “Creating Stars.”

Greensboro, N.C.-based accounting firm Davenport, Marvin, Joyce & Co. dove into its 11th year of support for the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department’s Polar Plunge for Special Olympics North Carolina last month.

It used to be that one could send out 100 letters to prospects and get a few meetings, and perhaps even a client. That is a far cry from what it takes to cut through the clutter that our prospects are exposed to these days.

Webroot, a company that develops antispyware and security software, has come up with an unusual promotion for beleaguered taxpayers this season: the opportunity to show a little appreciation to the hard-working folks at the Internal Revenue Service.

Texas-based firm Weaver’s private foundation selected six local affiliates of Habitat for Humanity as “charity of choice” for the fiscal year 2010-11, contributing $42,000 and local employee volunteers.

There are a myriad of different things that you can do with LinkedIn—most of which will require a lot of your time for very little return.