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Morris Zukerman spent 16 years at Morgan Stanley, at various points overseeing its energy and merchant banking practices, before starting his own investment firm in the late 1980s. His firm’s partners have included ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Kinder Morgan. He endowed a Harvard sociology professorship. He collected dozens of expensive paintings, including works he loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Along the way, he evaded more than $45 million in taxes, the U.S. now alleges.

College Choice, an online resource ranking various college programs and institutions, recently released their 2016 ranking for the best bachelor's degree programs in accounting. The University of Minnesota and their Carlson School of Management placed first among a slew of other big-name institutions.

Marketing coaching and consulting firm ConvergenceCoaching opened their third annual Anytime, Anywhere Work Survey this week, which looks to gather data on public accounting firms' adoption of "anytime, anywhere" work initiatives and their overall experiences with these practices.

Intuit announced a new strategic alliance with accounting and consulting firm BDO USA for the firm to use QuickBooks Online as a technology partner.

Moore Stephens’ Hong Kong firm won a victory in a New York federal appeals court on a case that could have a far-reaching impact on class-action lawsuits involving audit reports.

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Joe Woodard called upon the Greek gods to officially open the 2016 Scaling New Heights conference, offering attendees mythological lessons apropos to the event’s location at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.

In a recent op-ed published in Massachusetts-centered CommonWealth Magazine, Amy Pitter, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants, urged that accounting become as considered as STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) occupations for students in the state, and "as Massachusetts grows, so does its accounting sector."

I know many CPAs who left public accountancy to take a “better” job. For many of them this was a mistake. For some it worked out, so if you are one of the lucky few, you can stop reading what I have to say.