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In what may be an olive branch to U.S. accountants worried about losing influence on the International Accounting Standards Board, the IASB has named a new member from the U.S. to replace a departing one.

Poor Doug Shulman can’t catch a break. Even though he has officially departed from his role as Commissioner of Internal Revenue as of last week, now comes word that he has been sued by a group called the Freedom from Religion Foundation representing atheists.

Eastern Michigan University joined the IDEA Academic Partnership and received a network license for data analysis software IDEA, a tool for accounting and financial professionals.

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has released for public comment a new proposed International Standard on Auditing that clarifies and enhances the scope and focus of auditor efforts on other information included in documents containing or accompanying the entity’s audited financial statements.

Staff accountant Brett Robertson, of New Jersey-based firm Smolin Lupin, was called to duty after Hurricane Sandy in his capacity as a captain of the U.S. Army Reserve National Guard.

Ernst & Young recently honored 11 winners of its 2012 Entrepreneurial Winning Women program at the firm’s annual Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs.

Last week’s elections saw an increase in the number of CPAs in Congress.

The Fashion Institute of Technology recently bestowed student Chastity Farrell with the first Friedman LLP Entrepreneurship Scholarship.

A theater in Spain has found a clever way to avoid a recent tax hike on tickets by claiming to sell carrots from nearby farms to its patrons along with free tickets.

After spending a lot of time talking to thought leaders and firm owners, one of my biggest takeaways is the irrelevance of how we define the size of a firm.