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House Republicans are proposing to tighten tax-compliance rules to keep the U.S. highway fund solvent through mid-December.

The online Master of Professional Accountancy (MPA) degree offered by the University of South Dakota's Beacom School of Business has been ranked the best in the nation by OnlineU. USD's program was selected due to its affordability and the high proportion of graduates who pass the CPA exam," the school said in a statement.

The Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) recently released a report titled, Firm Culture and Its Impact on the Future of the Firm. The report shares the findings of a 2014 study of 1,000 Pennsylvania CPAs on career trends and what role firm culture has on attracting and retaining talent in the public accounting industry, as well as generational and gender breakdowns regarding values, career goals, motivators, and ideal benefits.

Deloitte has acquired substantially all of the assets of Compliance Implementation Services, a life sciences compliance consulting firm. CIS will join Deloitte Advisory, the market-leading risk and financial advisory practice, as part of its regulatory compliance market offering. Effective immediately, the business will operate as "CIS by Deloitte."

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced a settlement Monday with a Brooklyn man who entered into a cooperation agreement to help the agency mount evidence in an insider trading scheme in which illegal tips were passed via napkins or Post-It notes at Grand Central Terminal that the tipster would then consume to destroy the evidence.

Microsoft announced that its Cloud Solution Provider program will be expanded to include Dynamics CRM Online.

Roger CPA Review CEO Roger Philipp discusses how to set up a study plan for taking the CPA Exam and prepare for the big day, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

KPMG has launched a new quarterly publication to provide chief tax officers, corporate leaders and board members with a view of how their peers are coping with major tax topics and the related challenges and opportunities.

It has become pretty popular for law firms and medical doctors to advertise in group ads in magazine supplements.

Hillary Clinton on Monday outlined a plan for economic growth focused on the middle class and signaled she'll be offering an extensive set of proposals to rein in Wall Street in one of the first major policy speeches of her presidential campaign.