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The Virginia Society of CPAs Educational Foundation announced its college scholarship recipients for the 2014-15 academic year.

A central character in the 14-month dispute in Congress over the Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny of Tea Party groups is a computer hard drive.

To everyone but tax attorneys, the disclaimers referring to “Circular 230” that appear in the legends of most law firm e-mails are inscrutable as well as ubiquitous. The Internal Revenue Service has now changed its rules so that those disclaimers can be deleted permanently.

Scivantage announced it secured a $20 million round of funding to support company growth.

The new chairman of the California Society of CPAs and the new president of the CalCPA Education Foundation plan to focus on strategic priorities.

Xero and Constant Contact announced a partnership that will enable small businesses to integrate financial data with their Constant Contact account to develop marketing campaigns.

BKR International hosted a panel of some of the best accounting marketers in the country in conjunction with the Association for Accounting Marketing Annual Summit in Austin, Texas. Putting their smart brains together, they agreed on 10 best practices for building the reputation and visibility of accounting firms in a high technology, but still high touch industry.

In American corporate culture today, you can expect that many employees in any field hope to become part of upper management one day.

Accounting Today is issuing a call for nominations for its 2014 Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting list.

The International Accounting Standards Board announced its intention Monday to create a transition resource group that will focus on the upcoming new requirements for impairment of financial instruments under International Financial Reporting Standards.