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On Monday, the second day of sessions at the 2016 Practitioners Symposium and Tech+ Conference in Las Vegas, Jennifer Wilson, partner and co-founder of ConvergenceCoaching, spoke on how to contribute to and maintain a high-functioning firm.

Congress and the Internal Revenue Service are starting to take a closer look at the museums set up by private foundations that receive special tax-exempt status from the IRS.

Forget about Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Horst Buchholz and Brad Dexter. Accountants need a “Magnificent Seven” set of attributes to survive in today’s business environment, according to new research from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

The Center for Audit Quality is providing support for more independent auditing-related research by picking two new academic research proposals for funding.

According to the results of the Q2 AICPA Economic Outlook Survey, executives across the country are feeling a bit more hopeful about the U.S. economy’s outlook than last quarter, the AICPA announced on Thursday. The Q2 survey was conducted May 10-26 2016 and received 744 qualified responses.qualified responses.

Two new surveys highlight the differing financial situations of older and younger adults.

The New York State Society of CPAs (NYSSCPA) inducted Albany CPA F. Michael Zovistoski, a partner at UHY, as its 97th president on May 19 at the NYSSCPA’s Foundation for Accounting Education (FAE) Moynihan Fund Gala, the Society announced this week. Zovistoski's one-year term begins June 1.

Accounting Today columnist Jody Padar and former Accounting Today senior editor Liz Gold are co-hosting a new podcast series, “Let’s Get Radical.”

A new survey of U.S. taxpayers living abroad finds widespread opposition to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA, and similar tax compliance requirements.

As Wednesday marks the beginning of June and the summer vacation season, many professionals are gearing up for a long-needed break. However, a recent Accountemps survey found that approximately 33 percent of professionals feel they don't have enough vacation time to use.