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BKD has acquired Grant Thornton’s hospital and health care auditing practice in Wichita, Kansas.

The Institute of Management Accountants Foundation of Applied Research has issued a call for proposals for new management accounting research from the academic community.

RedGear Technologies, developer of TaxWorks professional tax software, has partnered with Cyma Accounting Software to create a software package that will prepare complex tax returns as well as provide solutions for a broad spectrum of accounting needs.

Dan Rostenkowski, the former chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, has died at the age of 82.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has released the latest version of ONESOURCE Property Tax, which now uses a completely browser-based interface.

Under new regulations proposed by the Treasury Department, Americans who receive federal benefits like monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security income would no longer be able to receive these funds by check, and groups including Consumers Union are asking the Treasury to reconsider.

Congressman Richard Neal, D-Mass., has introduced legislation that would allow companies to set up automatic payroll deposit Individual Retirement Accounts, or Auto IRAs, for workers who do not have access to employer-provided qualified pension plans.

In the midst of their August recess, House lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill to vote to approve legislation to provide $26 billion in aid to states to avoid teacher layoffs and Medicaid cuts, paid for in part by clamping down on foreign tax credits.

Thirty-one members of the House have signed a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner urging changes in the Internal Revenue Service’s proposed plan to regulate paid income tax return preparers.

A new survey of Salesforce.com customers found that the majority of them want to link more closely between their customer relationship management software and accounting software.

Audit committees, CEOs and CFOs are demanding more from the internal auditors function than ever before, according to a new report.

The partners and associates of Washington state-based Michael R. Bell & Company, PLLC, have joined Wipfli LLP, an international CPA firm headquartered in Milwaukee, effective August 1, expanding Wipfli’s health care consulting practice.

Eisner LLP and Amper Politziner & Mattia LLP reportedly plan to merge, expanding the two firms’ presence across New York and New Jersey.

Financial information company Sageworks Inc. has released an enhancement to Sageworks Counselor (formerly ProfitCents), designed to enable accountants to better advise clients on the steps they can take to overcome their current challenges, position themselves for future growth, and obtain additional funding.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Seattle-area skin care retailer and its former CFO with fraudulently boosting earnings by reporting sales of anti-aging products promoted through Home Shopping Network infomercials while the products still sat unsold in the company's warehouse.

A Canadian citizen was sentenced to nearly three years in a U.S. federal prison after he tried to deposit a $350,000 U.S. federal tax refund in a Washington State bank.

Consumer taxes for retail sales items, gas and cigarettes have all continued to climb in the past year, according to an annual survey of consumption taxes by CCH.

A federal judge in Santa Ana, Calif., has permanently barred Thanh Viet Jeremy Cao and his business, Phoenix Financial Management Group, from preparing federal tax returns.

The Internal Revenue Service could do more to encourage tax preparers to reduce the $345 billion tax gap, according to a new government report.

A federal district court has given actor Wesley Snipes the ability to file a motion for a new trial in his tax evasion case within 20 days.