Accounting education

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy is awarding $25,000 in grants to academicians and post-doctoral researchers to research educational issues that affect CPAs, the public accounting professions and the responsibility of state accounting boards to protect the public.

Student loan provider Sallie Mae has teamed up with education planning site ConnectEDU to provide college financial planning tools for high school students and their families.

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and the American Institute of CPAs have both given their final approval to a revised set of standards for providers of continuing professional education programs for accountants.

The American Institute of CPAs has begun selling digital versions of more than 30 of its most popular books on accounting, auditing and practice management.

Online invoicing, time tracking and billing vendor FreshBooks is now offering a certification program, whereby accountants can earn CPE credits to learn more about FreshBooks and become proficient in the product for their clients.

Pace University’s Lubin School of Business and the Association of International Bank Auditors have teamed up to offer a Certified Compliance and Regulatory Professional (CCRP) certificate program for professionals working in the global financial services industry.

IMGCAP(1)]As if our financial system hasn’t suffered enough — or caused enough suffering — economists worry that more difficulties lie ahead in the student lending sector.

The Internal Revenue Service has approved the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and NASBA’s National Registry of CPE Sponsors as the first organizations to receive qualified accrediting status to provide continuing education as part of the IRS’s Registered Tax Return Preparer program.

The American Institute of CPAs and two Brazilian accounting organizations have signed a two-year agreement paving the way for the CPA Exam to be offered in South America next year.

The Internal Revenue Service outlined the standards Tuesday for becoming an IRS-approved continuing education provider and accrediting organization.

The on-again, off-again status of IFRS is a fact of life for those of us in the accounting profession. But it's not an excuse for inaction.

BlackLine Systems has begun offering an online training tool known as BlackLine U for users of the company’s Financial Close Software Suite.

The American Institute of CPAs settled its copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday with KAPLI Inc., a provider of review course materials, over the company’s alleged use of some of the questions and test items from the AICPA’s Uniform CPA Exam that had not previously been made public.

Let’s face it, the accounting industry is changing and related conferences need to do likewise. Some of them are, for sure, but there simply has to be more than the lure of CPE.

The Accreditation Council for Accountancy and Taxation has begun accepting exam applications for the Nov. 28 – Dec. 19, 2011 testing period.

President Barack Obama pledged to help borrowers cope with student loan debt by capping student loan repayments at 10 percent of a borrower’s discretionary income, starting next year.

The Internal Revenue Service may have paid $3.2 billion in erroneous American Opportunity Tax Credits during the first five months of 2010 to 2.1 million taxpayers, according to a new government report.

The American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants intend to officially launch their new Chartered Global Management Accountant credential on January 31.

The Institute of Certified Management Accountants, the certification division of the Institute for Management Accountants, launched the new simplified Chinese language version of its two-part Certified Management Accountant exam.

The New Jersey Society of CPAs said Friday that a number of candidates for the CPA Exam in New Jersey have had their applications rejected by CPA Examination Services because of confusion over whether they had met the necessary education requirements.