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Key leaders in the House are reconsidering a provision in a bill that would exempt small and midsized companies from Sarbanes-Oxley audit requirements.

Marci Leigh Butterfield instructs – on average – 300 students each semester and is noted for knowing each of her students by name within the second week of class. This is just one of the reasons the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business assistant professor has been recognized by the American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants Educator of the Year.

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Over two-thirds of companies have recognized an impairment of goodwill, according to a recent study by Financial Executives International’s Financial Executives Research Foundation and Duff & Phelps.

Twenty accountants from Newport News, Va.-based Witt Mares have been named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Super CPA list.

The IRS has sold off a 7,100-acre parcel of land on Native American tribal land to pay off over $3 million in delinquent employment taxes, even though the federal government had earlier said the tribe did not owe taxes on the ranch land.

Big Four firm Deloitte has gotten the thumbs up from California First Lady Maria Shriver for its strategies in adapting to the evolving workplace.

The American Institute of CPAs has been promoting financial literacy in recent years through efforts like its 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy site and its Feed the Pig campaign with public service announcements encouraging consumers to save more money.

College students get to do the coolest things – and yes, that includes those studying accounting.

A lawsuit over Enron’s accounting fraud may have finally come to an end after eight years, mainly because there seems to be little prospect of collecting more damages.