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Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn can provide some important clues when searching for signs of fraud, or the fraudsters themselves.

The Association for Accounting Marketing presented 38 Marketing Achievement Awards (AAM-MAAs) to 24 firms for their marketing and communications achievements during a gala ceremony June 11 at the 2012 AAM Summit in Las Vegas.

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners featured fraud experts discussing how to find evidence of fraud at its 23rd Annual ACFE Fraud Conference & Exposition in Orlando on Monday.

Who buys a cookbook and never makes any of its recipes? The same person who goes to a conference and loads up on great ideas and never implements them.

This year was the first of the newly combined American Institute of CPAs’ Practitioners Symposium and TECH+ Conference and the 2012 Association for Accounting Marketing Summit June 10-13 in Las Vegas.

A Senate committee held a hearing on the tax challenges confronting Indian tribal members who are increasingly subjected to Internal Revenue Service audits.

States across the country are in worse fiscal shape than they are telling voters, thanks in part to outdated accounting rules.

If you’re like most busy accounting professionals I know, you probably aren’t able to devote as much time to marketing your firm and as you’d like.

Accountants who provide expert testimony in fraud cases had better be sure they don’t say anything to conflict with the other expert witnesses called by the attorney with whom they are working.

Southwest accounting firm Weaver’s private foundation named Big Brothers Big Sisters its “Charity of Choice” for fiscal year 2011-12, contributing $45,000 to affiliated agencies in communities near the firms’ offices.