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The National Conference of CPA Practitioners and the American Institute of CPAs have teamed up again to award 11 scholarships to graduating high school seniors from nine states as part of a joint program.

States across the country have been trying to plug their budget gaps by hiking taxes, including seven increases in sales taxes last year.

Here’s an idea to try if you’re in need of a busy season break and want to do something good for the world at the same time – tee-off for charity. That’s what Reading, Penn.-based Herbein + Company did, complete with a post-game party for staff.

The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, which lost a 7,100-acre parcel of land last December after the IRS sold it to pay off $3.12 million in delinquent employment taxes, has worked out a deal to settle its tax debts and get a loan to buy back the land.

Stacy Sturgeon, a partner in KPMG’s audit practice, has been named the firm’s new national managing partner for university relations and recruiting, succeeding Manny Fernandez, who has served in the role for the past four years.

An IRS building in Ogden, Utah, had to be evacuated Monday after a suspicious substance was found.

Roger CPA Review and Golden Gate University are teaming up to offer accounting students some help – they can now take CPA Exam review classes for college credit.

No big surprises here, but the Government Accountability Office has found widespread material weaknesses in internal control in the federal government’s financial management.

The South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants – which created their Young CPAs Leadership Cabinet last year – has chosen four professionals from Elliott Davis as members.

President Obama and congressional leaders of both parties spent most of the day on a health care summit where few points of agreement emerged between Democrats and Republicans.