Anthony Hopwood received the 2008 Lifetime Contribution Award from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association.

The award, sponsored by the AICPA, recognizes those who have made an important mark on management accounting, education and practice.

Hopwood, American Standard Companies Professor of Operations Management at Saïd Business School in Oxford, England, was honored for his research and teachings on organizational control and management perspectives.

He is also the editor-in-chief of Accounting, Organizations and Society and a former president of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Brussels, Belgium. In 1998, he was voted the Distinguished Accounting Academic of the year by the British Accounting Association. He is also a former dean of the Saïd Business School.

The Institute received 15 MarCom Awards and nine Hermes Creative Awards from the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals.

More than half the awards were for the Feed the Pig campaign, a national public-service program, created in partnership with the Ad Council, to help Americans ages 25 to 34 prepare for long-term financial security.

The AICPA’s 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy program, which educates Americans on important financial topics and issues affecting them at different stages of life, received a gold award for its Web site www.360financialliteracy.org.

Other awards went to two annual reports, three membership marketing brochures and staff orientation and retention videos.

The AICPA, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the United Kingdom and the Society of Management Accountants (CMA Canada) are co-sponsoring two new awards for research in management accounting for the American Accounting Association’s Management Accounting Section.

The first award of $2,000 honors an early-career researcher with the best overall body of research in management accounting. The submission deadline is March 31.

The second award, also $2,000, recognizes the author of a single article with the greatest potential impact on practice. The submission deadline is Aug. 31.

For more information on these awards, visit the AAA Web site at http://aaahq.org/mas.

The Institute, Dell Inc. and PC Magazine recently joined forces to help small businesses with financial management.

The free online course, “Financial Management Made Easy—Solutions for Small Businesses,” is offered through PC Magazine’s Learning Center series for businesses employing up to 25 people. The program consists of three lessons:

• Technology Tools for Easy Financial Management
• Complete Solutions for Standardized Financial Reporting
• Financial and Accounting Compliance and Outsourced Resources

Ilene Eisen, CPA, CITP, a principal with California-based firm ie Solutions, is a guest instructor for the third lesson of the course, which is available for download at www.dell.com/financial_training.

Michael Eisenberg received the 2007 Personal Financial Planning Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes an AICPA volunteer who significantly contributes to the advancement of personal financial planning as a practice discipline and exemplifies the CPA as financial planner.

Eisenberg is a member of the National CPA Financial Literacy Commission, which directs the Institute’s 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy and Feed the Pig campaigns.

“Michael is the embodiment of what it means to be a CPA financial planner,” Jim Metzler, AICPA vice president–Small Firm Interests, said in a news release. “Through his many years as a volunteer on our financial planning committees and those of his home state of California, Michael has worked tirelessly and enthusiastically to advance the CPA’s profile in the financial planning arena.”

Eisenberg is principal of Eisenberg Financial Advisors, based in Los Angeles, and is a frequent commentator on financial planning topics in national and local media. He also contributed to the book Tips from the Top: Targeted Advice from America’s Top Money Minds.

Eisenberg also is past chairman of the AICPA Personal Financial Specialist Credential Committee and past member of the AICPA PFP Editorial Board.

Dick Fohn, chairman of the Personal Financial Planning Executive Committee, and Bob Jazwinski, chairman of the Personal Financial Specialist Credential Committee, presented the award at the 2008 Advanced Personal Financial Planning Conference in Las Vegas.