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Becker Professional Education, the global professional education, subsidiary of DeVry Education Group, announced on Tuesday the recipients of more than $250,000 in scholarship funds from its annual Newton D. Becker Scholarship Program. As a result of the program, more than 125 CPAs will receive full or partial scholarships for Becker’s CPA Exam Review.

William "Bill" Sharkey recently received the College Mentors for Kids' 2016 College Mentor of the Year in the Accounting, Legal & Finance category, the Indiana CPA Society announced this week. Sharkey has been involved with student initiatives at PwC and the Indiana CPA Society's diversity initiatives.

Approximately two-thirds of companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average reported non-GAAP earnings per share, according to a study last year, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is beginning to wonder if the trend has gone too far.

As Monday marks Tax Day across the country, taxpayers have a few options on what to do with their newly collected refunds or bonuses. This year, Capital One conducted their own "Bonus & Tax Survey" to find out what exactly people plan to do with their extra cash.

Sage announced this week that they will be sponsoring the upcoming Invictus Games in Orlando this May, in addition to entering into a multiyear partnership with the Invictus Games Foundation.

Career information site Vault recently released their annual Vault Accounting 50, a ranking of the current best accounting firms to work for. Vault compiled their ranking by weighing a firm's prestige, culture, work/life balance, compensation, overall job satisfaction, business outlook, and formal training.

As the days tick down until the end of tax season, some clients need some gentle urging to get their taxes done, or at least to file for a six-month extension.

The AICPA announced on Thursday that the application period for the 2016 Leadership Academy is now open. Now in its eighth year, the 2016 Leadership Academy will be held in Durham, NC from October 2 - 6 later this year.

As the NCAA Division I men’s and women' basketball tournament finished up last week, so too did the 2nd annual Uniform CPA Exam Bracketology, released by the National Association of the State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). In NASBA'S bracket, it was The University of Wisconsin and the University of Pennsylvania that claimed victories in their own men's and women's tournaments, respectively.

Thomson Reuters is building bridges with NetSuite and other vendors’ enterprise resource planning software, tying its sales tax technology to theirs.