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The National Association of Tax Professionals recently raised $27,484 for the Women’s Safe House of St. Louis during its four-day National Conference in St. Louis.

The Institute for Policy Studies has released an eye-opening report on how 25 of the biggest corporations in the U.S. are paying their chief executives more money than they did in corporate income taxes.

CPA and advisory firm BKD chief executive officer Neal Spencer bestowed this year’s PRIDE Awards to Don Hutson, national industry partner for BKD National Financial Services Group, and Chris Lindner, supervisor in the firm’s Lincoln, Neb., office.

The widow of Kenneth Lay, the late chairman and CEO of Enron, has managed to beat back an attempt by the Internal Revenue Service to collect $3.9 million in taxes from his estate.

The American Institute of CPAs launched its second annual AICPA Accounting Competition, a three-stage challenge for teams of college students to test their fraud and forensic accounting skills for the chance to win $10,000.

Having lived in New York City for 10 years, I often travel up to Toronto for a little taste of the city. It’s beautiful, it’s clean, and it’s filled with some great fashion inspiration for my style sensibility

Florida accounting firm Kaufman, Rossin & Co. teamed with the local social media community to organize the first-ever SeaTweetup Cruise aboard the Norwegian Sky.

Our natural human herding instincts often serve us well in life, as they allow us to look to our family, friends and neighbors for clues on how we should interpret and react to a situation.

The Philadelphia office of accounting, tax and business consulting firm Citrin Cooperman recently helped to raise $67,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society as part of client Global Traveler magazine’s charity auction.

I just returned from a conference packed with young professionals. When I was settled and had a chance to look around, it was a bit of a culture shock.