Cloud software vendor Xero has awarded three $10,000 scholarships to college students in the United States. The financial awards are the first given under the Forward Fund program.

The number of SmartVault users hit 21,700 on June 30 when the first half ended, parent company GetBusy said this week. That was a 5-percent increase in users of the document management system this year.

Sixty-nine precent of CPA firms surveyed mid-June by the Rosenberg Associates are reporting revenue for the year is down or flat compared to the same period in 2019. The survey involved 61 firms with average revenue of about $10 million.