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Reasons vary why professional Gen Y or new-to-the-firm Gen X staff might leave a firm, but that some reasons stand out, according to firms recently surveyed. Read more on the Accounting Tomorrow blog.

It was a nailbiter until the end at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University during Margolin, Winer & Evens LLP's first annual College Accounting Challenge, but it's the students from the College at Old Westbury who will be bringing home a glass award to display in their accounting department.

Some Asian accountancy students are landing jobs way before they graduate, especially if they had been interns in the firm in their earlier undergraduate years and deemed good enough to be offered a permanent place, according to a Singapore publication. Read more in the Accounting Tomorrow blog.

Some Asian accountancy students are landing jobs way before they graduate, especially if they had been interns in the firm in their earlier undergraduate years and deemed good enough to be offered a permanent place, according to a Singapore publication.

Is it OK for accountants to give their less profitable clients the boot and only keep the ones that make their firms the most money? Read more in the Accounting Tomorrow blog.

Is it OK for accountants to give their less profitable clients the boot and only keep the ones that make their firms the most money?

When Ashly Bower's mother graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1979, she was one of only a few accounting students at the Ohio school. The younger Bower started helping her mom with tax work in the sixth grade. Now at 23, Bower is poised to be the fourth generation of CPAs in her family, starting with her maternal great-grandfather. She is a student ambassador for the Ohio Society of CPAs and speaks with students about accounting, dispelling myths and explaining what it takes to become a CPA.Her profile appears in a story by Brandi Barhite in the Toledo Free Press: http://tinyurl.com/co3dvj

When Ashly Bower’s mother graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1979, she was one of only a few accounting students at the Ohio school.

Our Facebook friend Jane Lee of the Ohio Society of CPAs shared a link touting the benefits of becoming a CPA.

Our Facebook friend Jane Lee of the Ohio Society of CPAs shared a link touting the benefits of becoming a CPA.