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The PhD Project, a program created to foster diversity in corporate America, announced 19 organizations will renew their funding this year.

An eye-opening report from the Government Accountability Office shed new light Tuesday on how the Internal Revenue Service dealt with the 2010 tax-filing season.

January always brings a renewed sense of tackling what we didn’t quite get to the year before. Many of us even set goals, all aimed at changing behavior or accomplishing something big. In the spirit of the new year, I am challenging all CPAs to pick two marketing New Year’s resolutions. To get you started, I have listed 11 ideas below.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board have agreed at last on a joint approach to how to account for credit losses, a key issue that has been holding up their convergence efforts on financial instruments standards.

To combat rising higher-education costs, United Kingdom accounting students could soon take advantage of a full ride in tuition fees, along with a starting salary of £20,000 (approximately $31,750)—if they commit to a minimum of six years work at KPMG in the U.K.

It’s easy to blame headaches on the accounting issue complexities tackled on a daily basis. All that focus and concentration towards a single problem would seemingly leave anyone mentally drained and hurt.

As states face more budget deficits this year, the news coming out of state capitals lately has not been too encouraging.

Freed Maxick & Battaglia launched a mobile initiative today to educate business professionals about the New York State Excelsior Jobs Program, which provides job creation and investment incentives to firms in strategic industries such as financial services, manufacturing and green technology.

The Internal Revenue Service could be joining the “birther movement,” saying Wednesday that it will no longer accept Puerto Rican birth certificates issued before July 1, 2010.

NetSuite’s corporate citizenship program announced the latest donation of the company’s cloud-based business software service to social enterprises Easy Office, United Prosperity, EdTec, Envirofit and Kiva.