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Global education and test prep company Kaplan announced on Wednesday the launch of their U.S. Global Leadership and Professional Development Practice at a New York kick-off event, attended by business leaders from the banking, finance and accounting sectors.

The AICPA will be offering the first part of a free, three-part webinar on how to address unconscious bias this Thursday, Feb. 18, from 1-2 p.m. ET. The series is designed to teach AICPA members how to "define, identify and manage unconscious bias" within their organizations and their interactions with clients, per a statement.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is expected to release its long-awaited lease accounting standard this quarter, and companies are bracing for the impact on their balance sheets.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has reportedly fired off a letter to officials in the European Union complaining about recent tax investigations of U.S.-based multinationals like Apple, McDonald’s, Amazon and Starbucks.

The Executives' Club of Chicago (EC) recently announced a new relationship with Deloitte with the formation of the Diversity Leadership Council, which works to expand diversity and inclusion awareness, best practices and thought leadership for Chicago's business community.

A New York City CPA is launching a startup company this tax season that he hopes will become an “Uber for taxes.”

The Bonadio Group, upstate New York’s largest independent accounting, consulting, and financial services firm, set a record in 2015 with 183 new hires across its 10 offices, marking an 83 percent over the firm’s 2014 recruiting efforts.

Ernst & Young has released the results of its latest survey with the Tax Council of tax executives and tax practitioners about their predictions for tax reform.

If you’ve been watching the industry news lately, a handful of firms have adopted an everyday-jeans policy. Essentially, in many cases these policies are worded to say as long as you don’t have a client meeting, you are free to wear jeans in the office every day of the week. It sounds reasonable...

Congress’s passage of legislation last December making many expired tax breaks permanent adds an extra measure of certainty for tax preparers helping their clients with tax planning this year.