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The months immediately following the end of tax season are strategically important. Management allows their focus to briefly turn inward, as opportunities for organizational improvement take center stage.

Accountingfly CEO Jeff Phillips talks about how accounting students and experienced accountants can make themselves stand out to prospective employers to land their ideal job, and discusses the Advance 2015 virtual career fair in June, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

A unit of Societe Generale SA based in Switzerland and three other banks agreed to pay a total of $2.2 million in penalties for helping American clients avoid taxes.

The Virginia Society of CPAs has announced its officers and board of directors for the 2015–2016 fiscal year.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has issued a paper examining potential changes to standards involving the use of specialists by auditing firms and is looking for public comments.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice asking for comments on the effect of the new revenue recognition standards on taxpayers’ methods of tax accounting.

Minimizing self-employment taxes to owners of pass-through entities

The things you think set your firm apart, don't

New software, hardware, books and other tools for accountants

The accountant who signed off on phony audits of Bernard Madoff’s firm for decades became the fourth person tied to the $17.5 billion fraud to avoid prison after aiding prosecutors.