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President Obama is inviting Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to dinner on November 18, where the top item on the agenda will be the soon-to-expire Bush tax cuts.

A new survey reports that 47 percent of women in accounting and finance are satisfied with their careers and only 19 percent believe they are equally compensated for their work.

It’s no secret that the Internal Revenue Service has been especially vigilant in the past couple of years about tracking down hidden foreign sources of income.

It sounds like a joke, but it’s for real – Sage Accountants’ Network is sponsoring Accountants One’s 6th Annual Search for the South’s Funniest Accountant taking place in Atlanta on Thursday night.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has postponed the loss contingency standard indefinitely after receiving a barrage of critical comment letters.

IMGCAP(1)] About once a month I am called in to assess the marketing and business development efforts for a 30 to 150 person CPA firm. The firms typically request an evaluation of their marketing efforts, approach, tools, skills, and more. As I spend time with the firm trying to uncover the issues and challenges within the firm that are obstacles to success, I often come to the conclusion that I am not dealing with a marketing problem. Rather, about half of the time, the root cause of their lack of growth, profitability, and success is a foundational weakness.

The Internal Revenue Service has posted an online video series known as “Tax Tales,” complete with creepy-sounding music.

Meet Bryan Newlin, the mastermind behind the “I’m on an Audit” rap video, the winner of the ATOM’s Got Talent Video Contest with Next Generation Consulting. Newlin, a manager at Yount, Hyde & Barbour in Virginia, said the idea for the video originally came from wanting to parody a Saturday Night Live skit for their Annual Firm Day. Here, Newlin tells us more about what happened behind the scenes.

The White House and senior Democrats in Congress are reportedly weighing a compromise “decoupling” approach to the Bush tax cuts that could extend them for upper-income taxpayers on a temporary basis and for middle-class taxpayers permanently.

The SEC has published its initial progress report on the work plan for the proposed move to International Financial Reporting Standards, but the report raises many questions without necessarily answering them just yet.