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David Evans, a graduate from the University of Tennessee and managing member of Dixon Hughes’ Atlanta office, was presented with the Outstanding Young Alum award at the university’s first Annual Alumni Awards Gala.

McGladrey & Pullen and H&R Block sent a memo to their employees announcing the deal on their administrative services agreement that their partners voted to approve Thursday.

When you’re good, you’re good. LeighAnn H. Costley has been named one of Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 40 Under 40 Rising Stars for 2009 – and considering she just joined the firm’s Atlanta’s office in August to launch its new Southeast Tax Practice Group, we think that’s pretty great.

Key leaders in the House are reconsidering a provision in a bill that would exempt small and midsized companies from Sarbanes-Oxley audit requirements.

Marci Leigh Butterfield instructs – on average – 300 students each semester and is noted for knowing each of her students by name within the second week of class. This is just one of the reasons the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business assistant professor has been recognized by the American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants Educator of the Year.

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Over two-thirds of companies have recognized an impairment of goodwill, according to a recent study by Financial Executives International’s Financial Executives Research Foundation and Duff & Phelps.

Twenty accountants from Newport News, Va.-based Witt Mares have been named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Super CPA list.

The IRS has sold off a 7,100-acre parcel of land on Native American tribal land to pay off over $3 million in delinquent employment taxes, even though the federal government had earlier said the tribe did not owe taxes on the ranch land.

Big Four firm Deloitte has gotten the thumbs up from California First Lady Maria Shriver for its strategies in adapting to the evolving workplace.