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On Tuesday, Intuit announced the launch of its Search for the Firms of the Future contest, celebrating future-forward firms nationwide. The program offers up to 20 accounting firms across the U.S. the chance to win a one-week vacation in Hawaii, an expenses-paid trip to Intuit’s annual QuickBooks Connect conference in San Jose, or a technology prize pack valued at $2,500.

Annual enrollment for H&R Block's Income Tax Course is now open, with the tax prep company awarding full scholarships covering the cost of tuition and books for spouses of active, reserve, wounded warrior and retired military personnel. H&R Block has offered these scholarships for the past 10 years and granted more than $540,000 in scholarship funds to thousands of military spouses in 2014 alone.

Accountants are getting ready to implement the new revenue recognition standard, even though a one-year delay on the date it takes effect seems all but certain.

Many finance professionals aren’t equipped with the broad skills employers demand in today’s rapidly-evolving marketplace, including analytical thinking, business acumen and communications. according to a recent panel discussion, “From Conformance to Performance: Developing the Finance Leaders of Tomorrow,” presented by the CGMA, AICPA, CIMA, and Bloomberg Radio last Thursday.

Singer-songwriter Robyn Rihanna Fenty may be sending a chilling message to her former accountant in her new music video B*tch Better Have My Money. Rih-Rih kidnaped, tortured, and had a marijuana love fest with a high net-worth woman, who turns out to be the wife of Rihanna’s former accountant, aka “The B*tch.” …

EY announced on Tuesday that a record 350 underprivileged high school students graduated from its College MAP (Mentoring for Access and Persistence) program this year, with 97% of those students going on to attend a two or four-year college in the fall. The firm awarded close to half a million dollars in scholarships to these students in 2015 and 100% have received federal or state financial aid.

Americans donated an estimated $358.8 billion to charities last year, according to the annual Giving USA report, the highest total ever in the 60-year history of the report.

The Massachusetts Society of CPAs (MSCPA) announced today the launch of its interactive job board, the MSCPA Career Center. With its focus on accounting industry companies, the MSCPA Career Center offers its members—and the accounting industry at large—an easy-to-use and highly targeted resource for online employment connections.

As banking has transformed over the last four decades - a period that includes the savings & loan crisis, the deepest recession since the Great Depression, a wave of mergers, regulatory changes, and the rise of online banking - CPAs have been able to keep pace with change, thanks in part to the guidance and industry-specific insight to professionals of the AICPA's National Conference on Banks and Savings Institutions.

Accountants could gain some extra business from the Obama administration’s proposed changes in determining overtime pay, according to the payroll giant Paychex, which found a slight decline in small business job growth in June in a mostly positive payroll report that it released Tuesday.