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Companies that promised local communities hundreds of jobs in exchange for tax benefits are finding that those tax breaks are being rescinded these days if the companies don’t deliver.

The South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants recently recognized six CPAs for their achievements in the profession and their communities in 2009 – one of which is a newly established Young CPA Award.

More states could be proposing to levy sales taxes on Amazon.com and other Web retailers in an effort to collect much-needed revenues to fill their shrinking coffers.

With 2010 upon us, as well as a new decade, it seems a good time to ask what you plan to do differently or better this year. Everyone talks about New Year’s resolutions, but what are you going to do in your firm to start a cultural (and peaceful) revolution?

Wishing all our readers a very happy and healthy New Year! We look forward to the next decade and all the generational change it will bring.

Not only is the U.S. Senate leery of passing a carbon tax, but apparently the idea is also running aground in both France and the state of Minnesota.

The expiration of the estate tax at the beginning of the year, and the threat of it returning with a vengeance in 2011 at a 55 percent rate for estates over $1 million, is giving estate planners fits.

BDO Academy, a new educational and mentoring initiative intended to get Grand Rapids students jazzed up about accounting, has been launched in conjunction with the firm’s 90th anniversary of its founding BDO Seidman office.

Banks using some auditing firms took larger write-downs than others, according to a new analysis, and that once again raises the question of just how fair fair value accounting really is.

An interesting blog post came to myattention the other day – one that claims that more experienced staff need to “parent”the younger professionals within a firm. (Insert groan here).