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Online accounting software provider Xero has partnered with the American Society of Women Accountants to support the organization’s educational programming.

External audits could play a larger role in providing information to the regulators and supervisors of financial institutions, and the effectiveness of the regulation of external audits—particularly of financial institutions—could be enhanced, according to an international regulatory body.

Following the attention of last year’s series, Timonium, Md.-headquartered CPA, tax and consulting firm KatzAbosch have released a second season of its animated sketch show, “Gotta Love Tax Season,” posting the first episode on its YouTube channel.

The New York tabloids have been filled with headlines in recent weeks about the so-called “soccer mom madam” scandal, and there is now an accounting angle.

Teachers across the country are competing for H&R Block Dollars & Sense personal finance curriculum grants for their high school students.

A group of Senate Republicans is increasing the pressure on the Internal Revenue Service to grant tax-exempt status to political organizations.

Georgia Southern University’s Center for Forensic Studies in Accounting and Business will host the sixth annual Fraud and Forensic Accounting Education Conference this May, gathering together investigators, accountants, academics and attorneys.

We’re in the midst of a rare changing of the guard here at Accounting Today, with longtime editor-in-chief Bill Carlino departing Thursday.

How’d you get the idea for Chrometa? It’s a question I get quite often from friends and acquaintances, which is kind of ironic, because the initial concept for Chrometa, while interesting, has been the least of our worries for the last four years!

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a trio of high-level mortgage executives with fraudulent accounting in the midst of the financial crisis.