News for Students
For high school students through accounting majors, here are some articles that may be of interest. These articles are updated on a regular basis so you can know more about the accounting profession, accounting student announcements, student news, college information, and other headlines that would be relevant to those considering and/or pursuing a job in the accounting industry.
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- IRS Provides Automated Tax Data Input for FAFSA Form
- Students completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form can now skip the time consuming process of copying their tax data onto the form.
Similar to scan-and-populate programs used by professional tax return preparers, the IRS Data...
- As Florida Graduates Hit The Market, Some Tough Pearls Of Wisdom
- I don't know if they told you what's happened while you've matriculated here for the past four years. The world is waiting for you people with a club …
Stephen Colbert, Knox College commencement remarks, 2006
Last Sunday, my wife and I watched...
- College Loans Follow Some to Old Age
- At age 61, most people are thinking of retiring. Phyllis Young, of Wilton Manors, is focused on paying off her student loans that she took out more than two decades ago.
"I'm $39,000 still in the hole," Young said.
She's not alone.
- Ernst & Young LLP Marks Fifth Consecutive Year As No. 1 Ideal Employer for Accounting Students And No. 4 for Business Majors
- For the fifth consecutive year, college students ranked Ernst & Young LLP No. 1 in the accounting profession and No. 4 in the business field on the 2012 US Undergraduate Universum IDEAL(TM) Employer Survey, leading the Big Four in these...
- Unpaid Internships: Bad for Students, Bad for Workers, Bad for Society
- The economics of unpaid internships are obvious. Employers are desperate for cheap work, and "free" is pretty cheap. Workers are desperate for, well, anything, and students and recent grads are willing to negotiate their wages down to zero. But...
- How to Write a Resume When You're Just Out Of College
- The University of South Florida junior felt like she had nothing to put on her resume. She had only held down one job, for three years, working part-time at a K-Mart while she was in school. What employer would hire her based on that bottom-rung...
- 5 Tips for Building a Personal Brand After Earning An Online Accounting Degree
- Whether you are considering enrolling in an accounting program online or about to graduate it’s never too early to start thinking about creating your personal brand. Creating a personal website or developing an elevator speech may seem like...
- 12 Financial Tips for Debt-Burdened New Grads
- Do you know anyone walking across the commencement stage this month? Unfortunately, a diploma isn’t the only thing they’ll be walking away with. As student loan debt has recently surpassed credit card debt, the average student is now...
- Teen Court Teaches Valuable Civics Lesson
- It's easy to overlook the legal justice system. It's even easier to get a
wrong view of how American law and order functions -- that is, if your
only contact with it is from television cop shows.Stay clean. Obey the
traffic rules. And the...
- How to Avoid Being a Bad Roommate
- For many people, having roommates is a natural transition between leaving their parent's house and buying their own home. It can be a great way to trim expenses and save for the future. But if you're not careful, cohabitating can also devolve...
- Student Loan Interest Rates Set to Double
- With the interest rates for federally subsidized student loans scheduled
to double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent in July, the topic has suddenly
become a hot political issue.
- AICPA Survey: Just 17% Of Young Adults Check Bank Accounts Daily
- NEW YORK, Apr 25, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Three times as many young adults check their social media accounts daily
as check their bank accounts, according to the results of a national
telephone survey conducted for the American Institute of...
- The Cost Of Financial Illiteracy
- Test your financial knowledge with sample questions from the National
Financial Capability Challenge, a 40-question exam given to high school
students each year since it was implemented in 2010 by the Department of
Treasury and Department of...
- The Best Accounting Firms to Work for
- To celebrate Tax Day today, Vault.com, an online careers site, is unveiling its annual ranking of the best accounting firms to work for in the U.S. This year, Ernst & Young is at the top of the heap.
"The rankings and survey give you an inside...
- Pay Gap Persists in Female-Dominated Career Fields
- Tuesday marked Equal Pay Day, a day established in 1996 to symbolize how long it takes women to earn the same wages that men earned last year. However, a new study shows that the concept the day was founded on hasn't yet caught on, even in fields...
- Survey: Students Fail The Credit Card Test
- American college students are laden with credit cards, use them
frequently, and have no idea what they are doing. Consequently, they are
swamped with debt -- and the problem is growing worse by the year.
- Project Innovation Has Wrapped!
- We are excited to announce the winners of Project Innovation: The Start Here, Go Places.® Competition of Creative Excellence. Students from around the country were invited to participate in the competition and come up with that one big idea that...
- How Well Can You Live On Minimum Wage?
- Raise it? Don’t raise it? The state of the minimum wage has long been a hot-button political issue, but in a struggling economy, an election year , and with many states proposing changes, it’s only getting hotter.
- USF Students Clip Coupons for Less Fortunate
- A group of USF students is clipping coupons and collecting savings on items which they are purchasing for the less fortunate
- Top 5 College Degrees Employers Want Most
- Planning to go to college? New research shows that having the right
degree could help you on your professional path. We’ve got the top five
college degrees the employers want the most.
- 2012 Legislative Session Impacts Education
- Higher education was a major topic for Florida’s 2012 Legislative Session, which concluded on Friday, March 9.
With the passing of SB 1752/HB 7129, Florida’s top universities, namely the University of Florida and Florida State...
- Don’t Fear The Tax Man, be the Tax Man
- Martin Lesky of Los Angeles lost his well-paying job at mortgage broker last year and owed the Internal Revenue Service thousands of dollars as well. One year later he had paid his debt and secured a gig at the IRS.
“People act like I have...
- Student Loans Seen As Potential 'Next Debt Bomb' for U.S. Economy
- Bankruptcy lawyers have a frightening message for America: They’re
seeing the telltale signs of a student loan debt bubble that is placing
increased financial pressure on families struggling with their
children’s mounting debt....
- Accounting Changing, but Future Looks Bright
- With more American companies needing big-picture financial advice, the future looks bright for accounting professionals.
- Flagler College Named Top Accounting Program By Accounting Careers for Dummies.com
- ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (03/02/2012)(readMedia)-- Flagler College's business
administration department has been named one of the top business
accounting programs in Florida by AccountingCareersforDummies.com .
- Tax Planning for Parents Of College Students
- As
parents plan for their children’s higher education, they may choose
from an array of tax-favored savings vehicles and deductions and
credits. Options include education savings plans, education credits,
deduction of educational...
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