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The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants announced the winners of the 2009 Elijah Watt Sells Awards.

CALIFORNIA

Financial Executives International has released its annual list of the main issues that should be high on the agenda of financial executives in 2011.

Diana Lepper, marketing manager at local CPA firm Froehling Anderson, has been selected to serve as vice president of the Minnesota Chapter of the Association for Accounting Marketing.

Michael C. Troped has been made a member of Bala Cynwyd-based Isdaner & Co. LLC, in the Accounting and Auditing Department.

Marc T. Hollander has joined Clifton Gunderson as a marketing manager, responsible for marketing and business development for the firm's Iowa and St. Joseph, Mo., practices.

Big4.com, the social networking forum for professionals and alumni of Accenture, Arthur Andersen, BearingPoint, Capgemini, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PwC, has released the 2010 Big Four Firms Financial Performance Analysis, which provides a detailed financial and operating analysis of the performance of the four largest accounting firms in the world.

The Internal Revenue Service will get closer to its goal of providing state-of-the-art individual taxpayer account processing and technologies if it improves the processes it follows for developing its customer account software, according to a new government report.

JANUARY

Mauldin & Jenkins, a CPA and business advisory firm headquartered in Atlanta has merged in two Southern-based accounting firms: CPA Associates in Bradenton, Fla. and Evers & Fox in Atlanta.