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Verizon said Friday it would change its method of accounting for pensions and other post-employment benefits, using something akin to mark-to-market accounting, the same type of accounting that has been criticized for the financial crisis and the implosion of Enron.

If you’ve ever wondered about how Web sites are tracking your movements across the Internet, as many of us do these days, then a handy utility could prove very useful and enlightening.

During her “Tomorrow’s Trends” session at the 10th annual Winning Is Everything conference today in Las Vegas, Rebecca Ryan challenged CPA firms’ casual commitment to looking ahead.

IBM pleased investors Wednesday by surpassing analysts’ fourth-quarter revenue and earnings estimates, but its numbers this coming year could be boosted even more because the tech behemoth is moving to non-GAAP accounting starting in Q1.

The PhD Project, a program created to foster diversity in corporate America, announced 19 organizations will renew their funding this year.

An eye-opening report from the Government Accountability Office shed new light Tuesday on how the Internal Revenue Service dealt with the 2010 tax-filing season.

January always brings a renewed sense of tackling what we didn’t quite get to the year before. Many of us even set goals, all aimed at changing behavior or accomplishing something big. In the spirit of the new year, I am challenging all CPAs to pick two marketing New Year’s resolutions. To get you started, I have listed 11 ideas below.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board have agreed at last on a joint approach to how to account for credit losses, a key issue that has been holding up their convergence efforts on financial instruments standards.

To combat rising higher-education costs, United Kingdom accounting students could soon take advantage of a full ride in tuition fees, along with a starting salary of £20,000 (approximately $31,750)—if they commit to a minimum of six years work at KPMG in the U.K.

It’s easy to blame headaches on the accounting issue complexities tackled on a daily basis. All that focus and concentration towards a single problem would seemingly leave anyone mentally drained and hurt.