BLACKSBURG, Va., June 15 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:

A leading accounting firm's scholarship gift helps not only the graduate students who receive it but the many undergraduates they are helping to tutor through a course notorious for its difficulty.

Forvis Mazars' six-figure donation helps fund graduate students in the Pamplin College of Business Department of Accounting and Information Systems who work tutoring undergraduates enrolled in ACIS 3115: Intermediate Financial Accounting.

"Our first intermediate accounting class is difficult," said Robert Davidson, theaccounting and information systems department head, the R.B. Pamplin Professor, and William S. Gay Senior Faculty ...