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The Financial Accounting Standards Board may be changing the rules on how banks account for loans made at below-market rates in order to win future business from a client.

A Parnu, Estonia, vocational school's use of computer-simulated companies as learning tools is spreading to accounting and economic students at other schools in the country, according to national public station ETV.

According to the American Institute of CPAs, Client retention is one of the top issues facing most accounting firms. Unfortunately, most accounting firms still don’t measure client satisfaction.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board heard from members of its Investor Advisory Group that they should be looking more closely at auditing firms to see what role they played in the financial crisis.

Global commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle announced a donation of 100 million yen (approximately $1.25 million) to the Japanese Red Cross relief efforts following the earthquake and Pacific Tsunami.

Intuit has identified a bug in its Ohio state software that caused nearly 9,700 taxpayers to receive refund notices for enormous sums, while also addressing complaints from some domestic partners about the way it handles recent rule changes from the IRS.

Plante & Moran’s Grand Rapids, Mich., office was honored with a Huntington Pillar Award from the Women’s Resource Center yesterday for their progressive workplace policies and practices.

Starting this fall, Carlow University in Pittsburgh will offer a new master of science degree in fraud and forensics that will focus on the detection, investigation and prevention of white-collar crime.

CCH has released a video explaining the tax treatment of any gambling winnings from the March Madness college hoops brackets and other forms of betting.

H&R Block is asking the public to choose which 250 schools the company will award personal finance curriculum grants through its Dollars & Sense program.