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CalCPA members, get your cameras ready.

Small companies in the U.S. are free to move to the International Accounting Standards Board’s stripped-down set of International Financial Reporting Standards for small and midsized enterprises, but few are doing so yet.

Well, yes. But in this case she’s an Ironman competing in this year’s Ford Ironman Championship.

About 47 percent of households, approximately 71 million, will not be paying any income taxes this year, according to the Tax Policy Center, placing a greater burden on those who do.

Stephen Chipman, incoming chief executive of Grant Thornton LLP and Ed Nusbaum, incoming chief executive of Grant Thornton International, talk to Accounting Today Editor-in-Chief Bill Carlino about why a recent college grad should choose their firm. We also learn that, yes, Nusbaum has his own iPod.

What are the expectations for an entry level accountant these days? Get your pencil ready, because there’s a list.

There were ideas a-aplenty when the Obama administration invited an influential group to offer up their thoughts on tax reform.

When partners go off to network and find new clients do they head to the … bat cave? Or what Stacie Clifford Kitts describes in her blog, Stacie's More Tax Tips, as a giant underground warehouse where they pluck potential clients off the shelf and check them out at the front of the store.

As states raise their taxes to make up for their budget shortfalls, they are now finding that their citizens are moving across state lines, and even across the country, to avoid the heavier tolls.

Falls Church, Va.-based Murray, Jonson, White & Associates has given $50,000 to the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants Educational Foundation to establish a student scholarship. The scholarship and funds were allotted to be in conjunction with the firm’s 50th anniversary in 2009.