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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent staff report on International Financial Reporting Standards indicates that IFRS is not going to be arriving in the U.S. anytime soon.

There is definitely an element of fresh and fun within the accounting profession, and I always seem to be smack dab in the middle of it—which, between us, is my favorite place to be!

Expect to see a lot more wrangling over taxes in Washington in the months ahead with the elections approaching, along with the expiration of the current tax rates.

Western New York firm Freed Maxick CPAs, chosen by Twitter, Inc. to represent the B2B/professional services sector in a year-long case study promoted on Twitter’s business website for advertisers, has announced those results.

Tax prep chain H&R Block was forced to admit to goofing up the tax return of caped crusader Bruce Wayne (aka Batman) and needed to fix the error in a recent infographic.

A team from the Philadelphia office of accounting, tax and business consulting firm Citrin Cooperman raised more than $5,500 for the American Cancer Society during Relay for Life in Ocean City, N.J., June 22-23.

J.H. Cohn raised more than $110,000 at its 11th annual employee Bowl-A-Thon for Make-A-Wish New Jersey July 10, helping grant approximately 13 “wishes” this summer.

The promise of economic mobility appears to be coming to an end, according to a recent study.

The KPMG Foundation announced that it has awarded a total of $470,000 in scholarships to minority accounting doctoral students for the 2012-13 academic year.

The usefulness of employee performance reviews depends on whom you ask.