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Bloomberg BNA has released two new reports on the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s and the International Accounting Standards Board’s revenue recognition standard.

Accounting Degree Review, an online resource for accounting programs and information, has released its 2016 ranking of the top 50 graduate accounting programs. The ranking compiled data from Public Accounting Report, Brigham Young University, the U.S. News & World Report, and considered AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) accreditation.

The Internal Revenue Service has selected TaxSlayer as the new tax software provider for the IRS’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance and Tax Counseling for the Elderly programs, starting with the 2017 tax filing season.

The Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) and auditors representing leading firms across the country announced a social media strategy for Thursday, December 10, highlighting the benefits of an auditing career and the important role auditors play in capital markets.

CBIZ announced on Thursday that their nationwide offices have collected a total of 1,026,139 pounds of food during the company’s annual National Food Drive. This year marks the very first time CBIZ's donations crossed the 1 million-pound milestone. All of the donations will be given to food pantries within CBIZ communities throughout the country.

According to a new survey by CPA.com, firms that have embraced new technologies are more likely to change with the most urgency. Early adopter firms - be it technology or practice management innovations - are more likely to enact deeper changes more rapidly than more cautious CPA firms, according to CPA.com's Innovation in Public Accounting Survey.

Forty-eight percent of small and midsize businesses use one technology supplier for accepting payments, processing payroll, issuing invoices and doing their accounting, according to a new survey, while 34 percent use two or more suppliers for their financial technology.

New England firm BlumShapiro recently presented a check for $1,800 to Shelton, Conn. non-profit Spooner House - which provides "food, shelter and support services to people in need" - via the firm’s employee giving through its Jeans for Charity Program.

Generation Opportunity, a national, nonpartisan youth advocacy organization, announced last week that their November Millennial Jobs Report revealed that 13.1 percent of 18-29 years olds are currently unemployed. The data is non-seasonally adjusted and is specific to the 18-29 age group.

Litigation against accounting firms appears to have subsided for now, according to one legal expert, but is showing signs of reviving as the Securities and Exchange Commission turns its attention back to accounting and audit enforcement cases.