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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has struck an agreement with Italy’s audit oversight regulator, Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa.

The National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) announced on Tuesday that they are accepting applications for their 2017-2018 scholarships.

Small businesses in the U.S. on average pay an extra $5,128 in taxes to make up for revenue lost to the use of offshore tax havens by multinational corporations, according to a new study.

The Internal Revenue Service alerted tax professionals Tuesday that over the next five weeks, it will send letters to some users of its online e-Services products informing them they will either have to go online or call the e-Services e-Help Desk to validate their identities, as part of the IRS’s battle against identity theft.

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy’s new chairman, Telford A. Lodden, described his goals for the organization during his 2016-2017 term, urging members to maintain high standards for accountants during a recent NASBA conference.

Small business employment growth dipped for the third month in a row, according to the payroll service provider Paychex.

The Rhode Island Society of CPAs (RISCPA) and their RI Young Accountants Network (RIYAN) recently held the 4th Annual RISCPA Olympics event and collection drive this past November, collecting over $4,500 in goods/supplies and over $2,000 in direct donations, raised for the Child & Family of RI organization.

A request by the Internal Revenue Service for user data from a bitcoin exchange highlights simmering tensions between compliance and customer privacy for financial institutions and will test how those demands are balanced in the young field of cryptocurrency.

According to a new survey via Robert Half Finance & Accounting, approximately four in ten CFOs polled (38 percent) cited a "mismatched skill set" to account for failed hires.

G. Michael Crooch, a former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and Arthur Andersen veteran, died on Nov. 24 at the age of 73.