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The 2016 Robert Half Salary Guide for Accounting and Finance was released this week and is now available online. The guide projects starting salaries for more than 400 roles specific to the accounting and finance fields. Overall, U.S. accounting and finance salaries are expected to increase 4.7 percent next year.

Certify, a company that specializes in expense management software, wants to draw attention to the problem of expense report fraud.

The percentage of business executives who are optimistic about the U.S. economy going forward dipped below 50 percent for the first time since early 2014, according to the third quarter AICPA Economic Outlook Survey, which polls chief executive officers, chief financial officers, controllers and other certified public accountants in U.S. companies who hold executive and senior management accounting roles.

Puerto Rico is struggling under $72 billion in debt that is forcing the territory to make some tough choices.

Thirty White Nelson Diehl Evans LLP (WNDE), the accounting and tax services firm based in Southern California, recently volunteered at the Orange County Rescue Mission - a Tustin non-profit that serves the community’s homeless and helps them attain self-sufficiency.

Marcum LLP, a top national accounting and advisory services firm, today announced that all Marcum offices will be closed for business on Wednesday, November 25, the day before Thanksgiving. All employees firm-wide will instead work at charity events arranged for Marcum teams from every office.

We did a survey to find out how accounting firms are reaching this critical demographic.

The AICPA today released an Exposure Draft on proposed changes to the Uniform CPA Examination for stakeholder review and input. The Exposure Draft, titled Maintaining the Relevance of the Uniform CPA Exam, is based on intensive research and input from the profession, and will serve as the basis for the next version of the CPA Exam, launching in 2017. The comment period opens today and runs through Nov. 30.

Coming to the TV schedule later this year is a new series about a fraud investigator who finds out that her fiancé is trying to defraud her, and she is determined to turn the tables on him before he devastates her forensic accounting career.

Officials announced last Wednesday that accounting grad student Jeanebeth Sedavia was crowned winner of the North Cotabato provincial beauty search, The Philippine Star reported.