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An IRS building in Ogden, Utah, had to be evacuated Monday after a suspicious substance was found.

Roger CPA Review and Golden Gate University are teaming up to offer accounting students some help – they can now take CPA Exam review classes for college credit.

No big surprises here, but the Government Accountability Office has found widespread material weaknesses in internal control in the federal government’s financial management.

The South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants – which created their Young CPAs Leadership Cabinet last year – has chosen four professionals from Elliott Davis as members.

President Obama and congressional leaders of both parties spent most of the day on a health care summit where few points of agreement emerged between Democrats and Republicans.

From now until March 19, Virginia college students can either nominate themselves or be nominated for the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants’ Leaders’ Institute taking place in June.

The other day, I noted that the IRS has been getting requests for extensions on the comment period for its new rules on disclosing uncertain tax positions on tax returns, and the American Institute of CPAs is now asking for an extension as well.

Have accountant, will travel.This is the tagline of a new Internet-based CPA firm that touts itself asoffering the convenience of online filing paired with the valuable benefits ofa personal CPA relationship.

The Internal Revenue Service wants large businesses to start disclosing their uncertain tax positions on their tax returns, but on the other hand it doesn’t want an information overload.

Steve Purdy is a HarleyDavidson-riding CPA in Shockoe Slip , Va. who was recently profiled inthe Richmond Times-Dispatch, where he said, “Not many CPAs I know are intothem.”