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The AICPA Leadership Academy has come and gone but you can still gain some insight about the event through one blogger who writes about his experiences through the Alabama Society of CPAs.

The International Accounting Standards Board introduced a slimmed down set of International Financial Reporting Standards last week for small and midsized businesses, but many companies in the U.S. are probably not likely to drop GAAP anytime soon.

IMGCAP(1)] Malik, a first-year African-American associate assignedto a major accounting firm’s California office, frets that he has blownhis one chance to make a good first impression:

The Obama administration has proposed a new bill that would toughen the standards for all types of investment advisors.

New York's typically dysfunctional State Senate finally reunited after a month of chaos and was busy passing bills into the wee hours last night.

A good way to think about consolidating student loans is protection, according to Tom Taylor, CPA/PFS at Taylor & Company in Towson, Md. If you have variable-rate federal student loans, you can convert your variable interest rate to a fixed interest rate.

A Tax Court decision last week could allow entrepreneurs and investors in small businesses to deduct losses against salary and investment income even for LLPs and LLCs.

Congress is divided on how to pay for health insurance reform and the legislation may not arrive by August, as planned.

A Highland, Utah high school accounting teacher has been named a “Rising Star” by the Utah CPA Foundation for doing an outstanding job teaching accounting principles in her classroom.

Tax protestor Ed Brown is finding out that it probably wasn't a good idea to line his property with pipe bombs and black powder cans to keep away federal agents.