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Karen Mayer Dwyer, a CPA from New Orleans, was honored with the 2009 Public Service Award from the American Institute of CPAs during the first day of its Fall Meeting of Council.

IMGCAP(1)] In Part 1 of this article we looked at how to use the search function in LinkedIn to identify likely prospects. Now we’ll discuss how to analyze company profiles to “qualify” a prospect and learn how best to connect with them.

A new study from the National Retail Federation predicts that the creation of a European-style Value Added Tax to reduce the federal budget deficit would result in the loss of 850,000 jobs in the first year.

The Global Reporting Initiative, which provides widely-used framework for sustainability reporting has opened a New York-based office in an effort to boost the number of U.S. companies reporting on sustainability and to improve the quality of those reports.

President Obama is using the bully pulpit to press Congress to make a tax credit for college students permanent.

According to a new study, yes. The study, published in the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners new Compensation Guide for Anti-Fraud professionals, find that CPEs earn nearly 22 percent more than their non-certified colleagues in the anti-fraud profession.

The Internal Revenue Service took down its computer servers for scheduled maintenance last weekend, despite the fact that the tax-filing deadline for those who filed for extensions in April is at the end of this week.

IMGCAP(1)] Last month, we discussed how your firm can boost sales dramatically with a company newsletter. Astute reader Michael Carter of Practice Paradox echoed our sentiments about the importance of a monthly newsletter, and offered an important suggestion about how you can create interesting content for your newsletter (and blog, too!)

Maybe it’s a good thing that the IRS has decided to stop mailing paper tax form packages to taxpayers next year, or it could be sending some unwanted visitors to taxpayers’ homes.

IMGCAP(1)] I recently read Copanion’s 2010 Annual Tax Survey results that reported about 70 percent of accountants are now scanning documents. This statistic sounds encouraging, that is, until you dig deeper into the data. Seventy percent are scanning, but ONLY 20 percent are scanning before preparation.