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Accounting firms have frequently found themselves in the cross-hairs of class-action lawsuits filed by shareholders over their audits of public companies, but that trend may be changing.

Transitioning clients is often something we don’t talk about unless we have to.

Just in time for the holiday season, CPA firm consultant Rita Keller of Keller Advisors has decided to do her own version of a scene from the now-classic Jean Shepherd movie “A Christmas Story,” adapted for accountants.

Students at the University of Texas at Dallas are this year’s American Institute of CPAs Accounting Competition champions, receiving $10,000, with Albion College students taking second and $5,000 and North Carolina State University bringing home $2,500 for third.

TaxACT, provider of digital and download tax preparation solutions, recently announced a Facebook-based Student Loan Relief and Cash Prize Giveaway Sweepstakes for students trying to pay down their school debt.

PwC’s Dallas office partnered with the Dallas Mavericks for a third year to plant “Trees for Threes,” a program that’s part of the basketball team’s Guard the Planet initiative.

Americans for Tax Reform, the Grover Norquist-led lobbying group that asks politicians to sign a pledge not to raise taxes, and then holds them to it, has given its seal of approval to the “Plan B” that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has proposed for raising taxes only on millionaires, in case he and President Obama are unable to reach an agreement to avert the fiscal cliff.

ConnectWise, a Tampa, Fla.-based software developer for IT service providers, VARs, ISVs and MSPs, is celebrating the season by donating holiday gifts and meals to local children and families in need through the nonprofit Success 4 Kids & Families.

John Wiley & Sons has released the latest version of J.K. Lasser’s venerable tax guide, a reference book that has assisted millions of taxpayers, not to mention tax preparers.

The Patriotic Millionaires, an advocacy group of well-heeled taxpayers who say they want to pay more in taxes, is suddenly taken with Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio.