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Employees of the Internal Revenue Service, the Treasury Department and dozens of other federal agencies and departments have elected a new president of the National Treasury Employees Union, Tony Reardon.

Accounting, tax and advisory firm CohnReznick recently hosted about 100 women executives to get them more accustomed to a common way to do business among generations of male executives.

Hillary Clinton has rolled out a plan to make college affordable that her presidential campaign has dubbed the New College Compact, enabling students to pay for higher education without taking out costly student loans.

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) announced the recipients of its Accounting Education Research Grants Program for 2015 on Tuesday. Faculty and postdoctoral researchers from two U.S. institutions will be awarded research grants totaling $18,100.

Many tax practitioners will meet holders of foreign accounts who have either deliberately or unintentionally failed to accurately report their foreign accounts and will need to advise them on the best way to make the disclosure to the Internal Revenue Service.

A federal appeals court has reversed a Tax Court decision in favor of an unmarried couple, finding the mortgage debt limit provision in the Tax Code applies on a per-taxpayer basis and allowing each of them to deduct mortgage interest up to the $1.1 million limit.

Intacct announced which channel partners have earned membership into the President’s Club, honoring top-performing channel partners, VARs and Intacct Accountants Program firms.

Nearly one-third of U.S. adults believe there is a greater than 50 percent chance they will outlive their savings, according to a new survey.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is seeing some improvements in audits of internal control over financial reporting, but also some contradictory findings.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued an interpretive rule clarifying that whistleblowers are protected by retaliation by employers even if they have not reported their concerns to the SEC first.