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Livingston, N.J.-based Wiss & Company rolled out a pilot program challenging teams of Montclair State University accounting majors to create and present an expanded business plan for a fictitious soft drink company. The goal? To get students using their knowledge, creativity and communication skills in the area of accounting and business planning.

A federal judge has ruled that Richard Egan, the founder of storage technology company EMC, used illegal tax shelters to try to cheat the U.S. government out of $62 million in taxes after he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.

Here’s something we haven’t heard before – Millennials are concerned for their future. This is breaking news from the latest survey released by The Allstate Corporation and National Journal.

Congress is getting closer to agreeing on how to pay for extending many soon-to-expire or already expired tax breaks, but the answer is not likely to please either hedge fund managers, venture capitalists or multinational corporations.

Ten accountingfirms with top-notch retention and advancing programs for women have been namedthe Best Accounting Firms for Women by the American Society of WomenAccountants and the American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Accounting-wise at least, that is.

The Texas Society of CPAs is rounding up its young people for its third annual Young CPAs and Emerging Professionals Conference. And the agenda is chock full of engaging topics to choose from.

Care to write off any Botox expenses? Intuit has come out with a set of the strangest tax deductions it’s seen this past tax season, including taxpayers who tried to write off the cost of Armani suits and a hired psychic.

Members of the New Jersey Society of CPAs now have another social networking site to maintain as the organization has launched a new place for its members to meet online.

The House Ways and Means Committee is rolling the dice and planning to convene a hearing next week on tax proposals related to legislation to legalize Internet gambling.