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JPMorgan Chase Officials Testify before Senate about London Whale Blunder
JPMorgan Chase & Co. needs to win back public trust after losses on a derivative portfolio swelled to more than $6.2 billion and eroded confidence in the largest U.S. bank, a company risk manager told lawmakers. Read more »
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FinancialForce CEO Addresses Challenges and Change in Accounting Tech
March 6, 2013FinancialForce.com CEO Jeremy Roche answers questions about how the current environment is... Read more »
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Microsoft May Owe Denmark $1B in Unpaid Taxes from Navision Buy
March 5, 2013Denmark's treasury is claiming that Microsoft Corporation may owe up to 5.8 billion... Read more »
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CFOs Feeling More Optimistic This Year
February 28, 2013CFOs began the year with improved optimism toward the global and U.S. economies and their... Read more »
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The Tech Take
February 27, 2013Executive appointments, new arrivals and one unannounced departure from a major tax and... Read more »
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Movie Tech Maker Avid Wins Big at Oscars, but Not at Accounting
February 27, 2013Avid Technology, a developer of digital audio and video editing software and equipment whose... Read more »
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Private Companies See Sales Growing
February 26, 2013Private companies across the U.S. continued to grow their sales and expand their net profit... Read more »
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Facebook and LinkedIn Reap Major Tax Breaks on Stock Options
February 21, 2013Social media sites Facebook and LinkedIn are enjoying massive tax breaks on stock options,... Read more »
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Cloud Accounting Institute Seeks Software Study Participants
February 21, 2013Cloud accounting and finance education and advocacy group the Cloud Accounting (CAI), is again... Read more »
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The Tech Take
February 20, 2013This past week certainly had its share of vendor news, from executive hires to new or updated... Read more »
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Accountants Gaining in Confidence
February 13, 2013The profession's confidence in the U.S. economy is growing somewhat, according to the February... Read more »
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February Accountants Confidence Index -- Executive Summary
February 13, 2013Editor-in-chief Dan Hood gives an executive summary of our February ACI. Read more »
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KPMG Survey Points to Cloud Adoption Complications
February 5, 2013A new survey from KPMG International finds companies are reporting higher-than-expected costs, as... Read more »
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The Appeal of Property Tax
February 1, 2013Your clients may want to appeal their assessments Read more »
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Caterpillar Considers ‘All Options’ as Chinese Accounting Probe Continues
January 29, 2013Caterpillar Inc., the largest maker of construction and mining equipment, said it is considering... Read more »
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The IRS recently released statistics covering the year to May 10, 2013.
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The AICPA's annual list of IT priorities for accounting firms.
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