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Deloitte will serve as one of this year's sponsors of the Glass Half Full event in Denver - an annual fundraiser presented by Greenhouse Scholars - the firm announced last Friday. Greenhouse Scholars is a non-profit that supports, inspires and drives exemplary but under-resourced college students to become community leaders with the potential to change the trajectory of lives and communities around the globe.

Scott Fleszar of Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting talks with Dan Hood of Accounting Today about why accounting firms should be more proactive in using new technology.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has agreed to pay $65 million to settle claims over its audits of the failed investment company MF Global.

Xero introduced a new Find & Re-code tool that enables bookkeepers and accountants to easily find and fix transactions that have been miscoded or need to be re-coded.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released two accounting standards updates last week, one of which covers the fees paid for cloud computing while the other applies to defined benefit obligations and plan assets.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service are trying to get more employers to offer myRA retirement accounts to employees.

The IRS is holding up its end of the chore of filing implications created by the ACA, according to Commissioner John Koskinen’s tax day testimony before a Senate committee.

A tax preparer in Queens, N.Y., has pleaded guilty to 38 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal income tax returns and four counts of filing false personal income tax returns.

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