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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is making it easier to find information about audit firms.

This time, we've decided to touch briefly on 19 current issues, doing a "Lightning Round," instead of covering only one in depth.

Employees in the West Hartford and Shelton, Conn., offices of BlumShapiro, raised $2,210 through their Jeans for Charity program for the Connecticut Autism Spectrum Resource Center.

The Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants is attempting to take Monday, April 30 viral, promoting the fourth annual Financial Literacy Social Media Outreach Day by highlighting personal finance resources through its social media channels.

The comment period is drawing to a close on the draft versions of two AICPA Accounting and Valuation Guides.

An eye-opening report over the weekend in The New York Times described the variety of sophisticated strategies employed by Apple to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes.

The National Grid Foundation provided Baruch College with a $15,000 grant to support the college’s Math Skills Enhancement Project, which has now expanded into the statistics department.

The International Accounting Standards Board is planning to set up networks of regional accounting standard-setters as part of its transition to a post-convergence world, but that is already generating questions about which countries will be in control.

Tony Santiago, CEO of online job and resource network Tax Talent, has rolled out JobsInTax.com, a free student connection to the tax profession.

The average prison sentence in criminal tax prosecution cases has risen dramatically in the past decade, from 18 months in 2001 to 25 months in 2011, according to statistics from the Internal Revenue Service.