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The congressional Joint Committee on Taxation held a hearing Wednesday on tax reform, and heard testimony from former Treasury Secretary and White House Chief of Staff James Baker and former House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt on their experiences during the 1986 tax reforms.

Coffee means more than busy-season fuel for Harry Parsons, partner of Jacksonville, Fla.-headquartered CPA firm LBA.

While it’s illegal to embezzle money from your employers, it’s apparently OK to deduct the legal fees from your taxes once you get caught, according to a 2009 court decision.

To celebrate April as Financial Literacy Month, the Texas Society of CPAs uploaded a series of personal finance videos online.

Appsumo is offering Accounting Today readers some free enterprise plan licenses of the online financial software inDinero.

If you have stabilized your firm and have adjusted to operating in the new economy, your next move should be focused on growth. Why?

The positive job numbers for March released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday indicated an increase of 20,000 jobs in accounting and 6,000 in finance.

The American Institute of CPAs and the Society for Human Resource Management have joined up to recognize employers that are contributing to the financial education of their employees.

The Internal Revenue Service is preparing for the possibility that the federal government may shut down just as tax season draws to a close if Democratic and Republican lawmakers can’t reach an agreement on a continuing budget resolution.

Business management software supplier Sage North America is making its Sage Simply Accounting Pro 2011 available to nonprofit organizations and public libraries through nonprofit TechSoup Global’s product donation service.