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It’s often a challenge to get clients to open up when they come in for their annual appointment during busy season. Maureen Schwartz, executive director of the global public accounting firm association BKR International, offers these 10 conversation starters to ask your clients.

Accounting Degree Review, a provider of information on accounting degree programs and other accounting-related topics, have released their 2015 affordability rankings for online master's degrees in accounting. The rankings highlight the thirty most affordable online accounting schools based on tuition and fees for out-of-state students enrolling in the 2014-2015 academic year.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is forecasting Super Bowl XLIX will generate approximately $206 million in direct spending in the greater Phoenix area, and that’s not adjusting for deflation, so to speak.

It’s already started and I don’t want to hear it. It’s that time of the year when CPAs are bragging about all the tax season work they do. This is what I have to say about that: get over it.

Brigham Young University’s five-student team won top honors at the Deloitte FanTAXtic national tax case study competition earlier this month, receiving $2,000 in scholarships per student and a $10,000 institutional award. The Deloitte FanTAXtic finals included nine teams from colleges and universities across the U.S., top spot by working on a complex, issues-driven business tax case.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department have issued a notice saying they anticipate issuing proposed regulations that would permit a state or local retirement system that is a governmental plan to cover public charter school employees if certain requirements are satisfied.

Accounting may be a profession mostly involving numbers, but for Lynn Hannan, a professor of accounting at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, factors such as psychology, sociology, and economics should also be a top priority.

UHY LLP announced today that it will donate $48,500 to support the 55th Annual Center for Disability Services Telethon at the Holiday Inn Albany (on Wolf Road) this Sunday, January 25.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is still in the process of deciding whether the revenue recognition standard that it converged last year with the International Accounting Standards Board should be delayed to allow more companies to adjust to it before the new rules take effect in 2017. But that doesn’t mean companies should wait in case there’s a postponement.

According to new statistics gathered by the New York State Education Department, the number of New Yorkers obtaining a Certified Public Accounting license from the state remained constant, albeit lower, in 2014.